07 ‘We’ll Never Let Him Go’

7 'We'll Never Let Him Go' At six o'clock in the evening, Bean switched off the motor of his tractor and climbed down from the driver's seat. Bunce did the same. Both men had had enough. They were tired and stiff from driving the tractors all day. They were also hungry. Slowly they walked over to the small fox's hole in the bottom of the huge crater. Bean's face was purple with rage. Bunce was cursing the fox with dirty words that cannot be printed. Boggis came waddling up. 'Dang and blast that filthy stinking fox!' he said. 'What the heck do we do now?' 'I'll tell you what we don't do,' Bean said. 'We don't let him go!' 'We'll never let him go!' Bunce declared. 'Never never never!' cried Boggis. 'Did you hear that, Mr Fox!' yelled Bean, bending low and shouting down the hole. 'It's not over yet, Mr Fox! We're not going home till we've strung you up dead as a dingbat!' Whereupon the

晚上六点钟，比恩关掉拖拉机的马达，从驾驶座上爬下来。 邦斯也这么做了。两个人都受够了。 他们整天开拖拉机，又累又僵。 他们也很饿。他们慢慢地走向小狐狸在大坑底部的洞。 比恩气得脸色发紫。 邦斯在用不能印出来的脏话咒骂狐狸。 Boggis摇摇摆摆地走过来。“该死的臭狐狸!”他说。 “我们现在到底该怎么办?”“我来告诉你我们不做什么，”比恩说。 “我们不能让他走!”“我们决不让他走!”Bunce宣称。 “永远永远永远!”博格斯叫道。 “你听到了吗，狐狸先生!”比恩喊道，弯下腰冲着洞口大喊。 “还没结束呢，狐狸先生!”我们不把你吊起来就不回家!”于是的

three men all shook hands with one another and swore a solemn oath that they would not go back to their farms until the fox was caught. 'What's the next move?' asked Bunce, the potbellied dwarf. 'We're sending you down the hole to fetch him up,' said Bean. 'Down you go, you miserable midget!' 'Not me!' screamed Bunce, running away. Bean made a sickly smile. When he smiled you saw his scarlet gums. You saw more gums than teeth. 'Then there's only one thing to do,' he said. 'We starve him out. We camp here day and night watching the hole. He'll come out in the end. He'll have to.'

三个人互相握了握手，庄严地发誓，不抓住狐狸，他们就不回自己的农场。 “下一步怎么办?”大腹便便的小矮人邦斯问。 “我们派你到洞里去把他捞上来。”比恩说。 “滚下去，你这个可怜的侏儒!”“不是我!”邦斯尖叫着跑开了。 比恩病态地笑了笑。当他微笑时，你会看到他鲜红的牙床。 你看到的牙龈比牙齿多。 “那就只有一件事可做了，”他说。 “我们把他饿死。我们日夜在这里露营，监视着这个洞。 他最终会出来的。 他必须这么做。”

So Boggis and Bunce and Bean sent messages down to their farms asking for tents, sleeping-bags and supper.

于是，博吉斯、邦斯和比恩给他们的农场捎信，要帐篷、睡袋和晚饭。