13 Bunce’s Giant Storehouse

13 Bunce's Giant Storehouse 'My dear Foxy!' cried Badger. 'What in the world has happened to your tail?' 'Don't talk about it, please,' said Mr Fox. 'It's a painful subject.' They were digging the new tunnel. They dug on in silence. Badger was a great digger and the tunnel went forward at a terrific pace now that he was lending a paw. Soon they were crouching underneath yet another wooden floor. Mr Fox grinned slyly, showing sharp white teeth. 'If I am not mistaken, my dear Badger,' he

“我亲爱的狐狸!”獾叫道。 “你的尾巴到底怎么了?”“请不要谈这个，”狐狸先生说。 “这是一个令人痛苦的话题。”他们正在挖那条新隧道。 他们默默地继续挖着。獾是一个伟大的挖掘者，现在他伸出爪子，隧道以惊人的速度向前推进。 很快，他们又蹲到了另一块木地板下面。 狐狸先生狡猾地笑了笑，露出了洁白的牙齿。 “如果我没弄错的话，我亲爱的獾，”他说

said, 'we are now underneath the farm which belongs to that nasty little pot-bellied dwarf, Bunce. We are, in fact, directly underneath the most interesting part of that farm.' 'Ducks and geese!' cried the Small Foxes, licking their lips. 'Juicy tender ducks and big fat geese!' 'Ex-actly!' said Mr Fox. 'But how in the world can you know where we are?' asked Badger. Mr Fox grinned again, showing even more white teeth. 'Look,' he said, 'I know my way around these farms blindfold. For me it's just as easy below ground as it is above it.' He reached high and pushed up one wooden floorboard, then another. He poked his head through the gap. 'Yes!' he shouted, jumping up into the room above. 'I've done it again! I've hit it smack on the nose! Right in the bull's-eye! Come and look!'

他说:“我们现在是在那个讨厌的大腹便便的小矮人邦斯的农场下面。 事实上，我们就在那个农场最有趣的地方的正下方。“鸭子和鹅!”小狐狸们舔着嘴唇叫道。 “多汁嫩鸭和肥鹅!”“自己需要!狐狸先生说。 “可是你究竟是怎么知道我们在哪儿的呢?”獾问。 狐狸先生又咧嘴一笑，露出了更多的白牙。 “瞧，”他说，“我蒙着眼睛在这些农场里认得路。 对我来说，在地下和在地上一样容易。”他把手伸到高处，推了一块又一块木板。 他从缺口探出头来。 “是的!他喊道，跳上了楼上的房间。 “我又干了!”我正好打在它的鼻子上!正中靶心!快来看!”

Quickly Badger and the three Small Foxes scrambled up after him. They stopped and stared. They stood and gaped. They were so overwhelmed they couldn't speak; for what they now saw was a kind of fox's dream, a badger's dream, a paradise for hungry animals. 'This, my dear old Badger,' proclaimed Mr Fox, 'is Bunce's Mighty Storehouse! All his finest stuff is stored in here before he sends it off to market.' Against all the four walls of the great room, stacked in cupboards and piled upon shelves reaching from floor to ceiling, were thousands and thousands of the finest and fattest ducks and geese, plucked and ready for roasting! And up above, dangling from the rafters, there must have

獾和三只小狐狸迅速爬上了他的后面。 他们停下来凝视着。他们站在那里目瞪口呆。 他们激动得说不出话来;因为他们现在看到的是一种狐狸的梦，一种獾的梦，一个饥饿动物的天堂。 “这，我亲爱的老獾，”狐狸先生宣布，“是邦斯的大仓库!他所有最好的东西在送到市场之前都存放在这里。”靠着那间大屋子的四面墙，成千上万只拔了毛的最肥美的鸭子和鹅，堆在橱子里，从地板一直堆到天花板。在上面，在椽子上晃来晃去，肯定有

been at least a hundred smoked hams and fifty sides of bacon! 'Just feast your eyes on that!' cried Mr Fox, dancing up and down. 'What d'you think of it, eh? Pretty good grub!'

至少吃过一百只熏火腿和五十面熏肉!“尽情欣赏吧!”狐狸先生叫着，跳上跳下。 "你觉得怎么样，嗯? " 相当不错的食物!”

Suddenly, as though springs had been released in their legs, the three hungry Small Foxes and the ravenously hungry Badger sprang forward to grab the luscious food. 'Stop!' ordered Mr Fox. 'This is my party, so I shall do the choosing.' The others fell back, licking their chops. Mr Fox began prowling around the storehouse examining the glorious display with an expert eye. A thread of saliva slid down one side of his jaw and hung suspended in mid-air, then snapped. 'We mustn't overdo it,' he said. 'Mustn't give the game away. Mustn't let them know what we've been up to. We must be neat and tidy and take just a few of the choicest morsels. So, to start with we shall have four plump young ducks.' He took them from the shelf. 'Oh, how lovely and fat they are! No wonder Bunce gets a special price for them in the market!… All right, Badger, lend me a hand to get them down… You children can help as well… There we go… Goodness me, look how your mouths are watering… And now… I think we had better have a few geese… Three will be quite enough… We'll take the biggest… Oh my, oh my, you'll never see finer geese than these in a

突然，三只饥饿的小狐狸和饥肠辘辘的獾，就像腿里的弹簧被释放了一样，一跃而起，去抢那甘美的食物。 “停!狐狸先生命令道。“这是我的聚会，所以我来挑选。”其他人都往后退，舔着自己的排骨。 狐狸先生开始在仓库里转来转去，用专家的眼光审视着这些华丽的展品。 一缕唾液从他下巴的一侧滑落，悬在半空中，然后断了。 他说，我们不能做得过火。 “千万不能泄露秘密。” 不能让他们知道我们在做什么。 我们必须整洁干净，只吃最好的几口。 所以，首先我们要有四只胖乎乎的小鸭子。”他从架子上拿了下来。 “啊，他们多可爱，多胖啊!”难怪邦斯在市场上给它们打特价!好了，獾，帮我把它们弄下来，你们这些孩子也可以帮忙，好了，天哪，看看你们的口水都流成什么样子了，现在，我想我们最好养几只鹅，三只就够了，我们要最大的，哦，天哪，哦，天哪，你再也见不到比这更好的鹅了