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But by the time we figured out who the bag actually BELONGED to, the owner was standing in our doorway. I thought Mrs. Graziano found us because of the baby powder, but it turns out it was even easier for her than THAT. As soon as she opened her cabin door, she found Emilio stumbling around in the dark. Which just goes to show, you should never leave a man behind.

但当我们弄清楚这个包到底是谁的时候，它的主人已经站在门口了。 我以为格拉齐亚诺太太是因为婴儿爽身粉才找到我们的，但结果对她来说更容易。 她一打开舱门，就发现埃米利奥在黑暗中跌跌撞撞。 这就说明了，你不应该丢下一个男人。

Mrs. Graziano chewed us out for our "immature shenanigans." She said we couldn't be trusted on our own for the night, so she was gonnd get on the phone and find an emergency chaperone. I couldn't imagine who would be willing to drive all the way out to this place in the middle of the night, but I knew that WHOEVER it was, he wasn't gonna be HAPPY about it. And it turns out I was right.

格拉齐亚诺太太斥责我们“不成熟的恶作剧”。 她说今晚不能信任我们单独行动，所以她要打电话找个紧急监护人。 我无法想象谁会愿意大半夜开车来这里，但我知道不管是谁，他肯定不会高兴的。 事实证明我是对的。

Sunday I really wish Mrs. Graziano had just sent me HOME instead of calling Dad to chaperone us for the last day. Dad was already mad ENOUGH about the CAR, and now he had to babysit a bunch of unshowered middle schoolers. And it wasn't fun breaking the news to him that we didn't even have a working bathroom in our cabin. I figured I owed it to Dad to at least give him a basic rundown of the camp, but he seemed to already know everything I tried to tell him. Somehow he even knew about the STEW, because when somebody put a serving on his plate, he scraped it right back into the pot.

星期天，我真希望格拉齐亚诺太太把我送回家，而不是叫爸爸来陪我们度过最后一天。 爸爸已经为汽车的事够生气了，现在他还得照顾一群没洗澡的中学生。 告诉他我们的小屋里连卫生间都没有，一点都不好玩。 我想，为了爸爸，我至少应该给他一个营地的基本概况，但他似乎已经知道了我想告诉他的一切。 不知何故，他甚至知道炖菜，因为当有人把一份菜放在他的盘子里时，他会把它刮回锅里。

At first I thought Dad must've been a chaperone when RODRICK went to this place, but when I saw one of the other chaperones greet Dad, I put it all together. WELCOME BACK, FRANK! Dad went to Hardscrabble Farms when he was MY age. No WONDER he wasn't happy to be here. If his experience was anything like MINE, I'm sure he never imagined in a million years that he'd be BACK. Me and my cabinmates spent the day trying to set up our camp for the overnight. And it was pretty clear Dad had no intention of helping out.

起初我以为罗德里克去这个地方的时候，爸爸一定是一个监护人，但当我看到另一个监护人迎接爸爸的时候，我就明白了。 欢迎回来，弗兰克！爸爸像我这么大的时候去了寒舍农场。 难怪他来这里不高兴。 如果他的经历和我一样，我敢肯定他绝不会想到自己会回来。 我和我的小屋里的人花了一天的时间来搭建我们过夜的营地。 很明显，爸爸并不想帮忙。

Half the time he was off somewhere else doing who knows what. And when he WAS around, he didn't lift a finger. So we set up our shelter without him. Luckily, Grandpa's book had a chapter on how to build a waterproof lean-to, so we didn't NEED Dad's help.

一半的时间他都在别的地方鬼混。 当他在的时候，他不动一根手指。 所以我们在没有他的情况下搭建了避难所。 幸运的是，爷爷的书中有一章是关于如何建造防水的斜屋的，所以我们不需要爸爸的帮助。

At dinner some kids from another group seemed really shaken up. They said they were gathering firewood and came across an old shack that they were 99% sure belonged to Silas Scratch. This is where I was hoping Dad would tell everyone Silas Scratch was just a made-up story to keep kids from leaving their cabins at night. But he DIDN'T. He said that when HE went to Hardscrabble Farms, a couple of kids went poking around Silas Scratch's shack and were never heard from AGAIN.

晚餐时，另一组的一些孩子似乎很震惊。 他们说他们在收集柴火，发现了一个旧棚屋，他们99%肯定是塞拉斯·斯克拉奇的。 我本来希望爸爸会告诉大家塞拉斯·刮伤只是一个编造的故事让孩子们晚上不敢离开小屋。 但他没有。他说，他去郝刻薄农场的时候，有几个孩子到塞拉斯的窝棚里去玩，后来就再也没听到过他们的消息。