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I went a little farther in. When I walked down a hallway, I found something that REALLY shocked me. It was a BATHROOM, with a toilet and a sink and EVERYTHING. There were even a few rolls of extra toilet paper, and it wasn't the CHEAP stuff, either. My head was spinning at that point. I was ready to run back to our campsite and tell everyone what I'd found, when I heard something that sent shivers down my spine. It was the sound of WHISTLING, and it was coming from right BEHIND me.

我又往里走了一点。 当我走在走廊上时，我发现了一件令我震惊的事情。 那是一间浴室，有马桶和水槽，什么都有。 甚至还有几卷多余的卫生纸，而且也不是便宜的东西。 那时我的头都晕了。 我正准备跑回营地，告诉大家我的发现，这时我听到了让我脊背发冷的声音。 那是哨声，就从我身后传来。

I turned to run, and that's when I ran smack into DAD. I was totally speechless. I couldn't understand what he was doing taking a shower in a maintenance shed, but then he started talking. Dad said when HE went to Hardscrabble Farms, the bathroom situation was even WORSE than it is now.

我转身要跑，就在这时，我撞上了爸爸。 我完全说不出话来。我不明白他为什么在维修棚里洗澡，然后他开始说话了。 爸爸说当他去寒舍农场的时候，厕所的情况比现在还要糟糕。

There was only one outhouse, which everyone at the camp shared. There was no shower, and if you wanted to get clean, you had to go down to the river with a bar of soap. Then one day when Dad was collecting firewood, he found this maintenance shed that was used for keeping up the property during the off-season. When he realized there was a toilet and a shower inside, he knew he had to keep it a secret or EVERYONE would find out.

营地里只有一个外屋，每个人都共用。 没有淋浴，如果你想洗干净，你必须带着一块肥皂到河边去。 后来有一天，爸爸在捡柴火的时候，发现了这个维修棚，是用来在淡季时维护房子的。 当他意识到里面有厕所和淋浴时，他知道他必须保密，否则每个人都会发现的。

So he came up with the story of Silas Scratch to throw the other kids off the trail. Dad said when he got here yesterday, he was pretty surprised the Silas Scratch thing was still going after all these years. But he figured he'd just go with it so he could keep the bathroom to himself. I was pretty mad at Dad for causing everyone all this stress. But I have to admit that coming up with a crazy story to protect a secret bathroom is EXACTLY the kind of thing I'd do MYSELF. I realized I'd been away from the campsite for a while and my cabinmates probably thought I got snatched up by Silas Scratch.

所以他编了个塞拉斯抓痕的故事来迷惑其他孩子。 爸爸说他昨天来的时候，他很惊讶塞拉斯抓痕的事这么多年了还在继续。 但他想他就这么做了，这样他就可以独享浴室了。 我很生爸爸的气，因为他给大家带来了这么大的压力。 但我必须承认，想出一个疯狂的故事来保护一个秘密的浴室正是我自己会做的事情。 我意识到我已经离开营地有一段时间了，我的小屋里的人可能以为我被塞拉斯抓去了。

So I asked Dad to help me find my way back to the campsite. It had started to rain, and by the time we got back, the fire was completely OUT. I guess my group got desperate and threw in anything that would burn, because I found my BOOK in there. Or at least what was left of it. My cabinmates had picked apart our shelter for firewood, and that's where me and Dad found them, all huddled together.

所以我请爸爸帮我找回营地的路。 天开始下雨了，我们回来的时候，火已经完全熄灭了。 我猜我的团队走投无路了，扔进了所有能燃烧的东西，因为我在里面找到了我的书。 或者至少是它剩下的部分。 我的小木屋里的人把我们的棚子拆了下来当柴火，我和爸爸就在那里发现了他们，他们都挤在一起。

I really didn't wanna spend the night out in the rain, and thankfully Dad didn't, EITHER. I guess he wasn't too concerned about the camp rules, because he snuck us all back into our cabin. It might've stunk to high heaven in there, but it was the best night of sleep I've had in my life. Monday This morning we packed up all our stuff and brought it to the parking lot. Almost everyone in my class looked like a WRECK from sleeping out in the woods overnight, but MY group actually looked REFRESHED.

我真的不想在雨中过夜，谢天谢地，爸爸也不想。 我猜他不太在意营地的规矩，因为他把我们都偷偷带回了小木屋。 里面可能臭气熏天，但那是我这辈子睡得最好的一晚。 星期一今天早上，我们把所有的东西收拾好，带到停车场。 在树林里睡了一夜之后，我班上几乎每个人看起来都筋疲力尽，但我的小组实际上看起来精神焕发。