Ch9-Balto of the Blue Dawn

CHAPTER NINE Baldo of the Blue Dawn Jack climbed out of the sled as Annie stepped off the runners. A thin layer of ice covered their faces and clothes, but they were both laughing as they stamped their feet and swung their arms. "You made it back!" Oki shouted. "What time is it?" asked Jack. "Almost six o'clock!" said Oki. Jack smiled at Annie. "With time to spare!" he said. "Thank God you are safe!" said Uncle Joe.

第九章蓝色黎明的巴尔多杰克从雪橇上爬了出来，安妮从雪橇上下来。 一层薄薄的冰覆盖着他们的脸和衣服，但他们都在笑，跺着脚，挥舞着手臂。 “你回来了！”冲电气喊道。 “几点了？”杰克问。 “快六点了！”Oki说。 杰克对安妮笑了笑。“还有时间！”他说。 “感谢上帝，你安全了！”乔叔叔说。

"Did you find Gunnar Kaasen?" Oki asked. "We did!" said Annie. "On the trail below Port Safety! His sled had overturned. The medicine was lost, but Balto helped us find it!" "Gunnar and his team arrived in Nome just ahead of us," said Jack. "They're delivering the medicine to the hospital!" Uncle Joe closed his eyes and sighed with relief. Oki couldn't stop grinning. He pumped Jack's mittened hand, and Annie's, too. "Thank you! Thank you! You are champions!" "Don't thank us!" said Jack. "Thank your dogs —they're the real champions!" Oki opened the gate to the dog pen. The team of huskies walked in, panting wearily. Jack and Annie helped Oki and Uncle Joe unhitch the dogs from their neck lines and tug lines and pull off their harnesses. Then they massaged the dogs' backs and legs. Oki gave the dogs water, and Jack and Annie fed them dried fish. The huskies wolfed down their meal and then howled with gratitude. As the sun rose over Nome, the eight brave dogs curled

“你找到加纳·卡森了吗？”冲电气问道。 “我们做到了！”安妮说。“在安全港下面的小路上！”他的雪橇翻了。 药丢了，但巴尔图帮我们找到了！”“加纳和他的团队比我们先到诺姆，”杰克说。 “他们正在把药送到医院去！”乔叔叔闭上眼睛，松了口气。 奥基忍不住笑了。 他握着杰克戴着连指手套的手，也握着安妮的手。 “谢谢你!谢谢你！你们是冠军！”“不用谢我们！”杰克说。 “谢谢你的狗——它们才是真正的冠军！”Oki打开了狗圈的大门。 一队哈士奇走了进来，疲惫地喘着气。 杰克和安妮帮助奥基和乔叔叔把狗从颈绳和拖绳上解开，并把挽具解开。 然后他们按摩狗的背部和腿部。 奥基给狗喝水，杰克和安妮给它们喂鱼干。 哈士奇狼吞虎咽地吃完饭，然后感激地嚎叫起来。 当太阳从诺姆升起时，八只勇敢的狗蜷缩起来

their bodies into the bright snow, covered their noses with their tails, and closed their eyes. "Take a long rest, team," said Jack. "You deserve it," said Annie. "Let's go to the hospital," said Uncle Joe. "Yes!" said Oki. "We'll walk with you," said Annie. Uncle Joe hobbled on his crutch as the four of them headed to town. Reflecting the brilliant blue of the early-morning sky, the snow itself looked blue. By the time they arrived at the hospital, a small crowd had gathered. Jack saw Mayor Maynard and Gunnar Kaasen surrounded by a group of reporters with cameras and notebooks. Gunnar's huskies were off to the side. Children were petting them, and photographers were taking pictures. As the dogs smiled and panted, Jack could see their clouds of white breath. "The newspapers are here!" said Oki. "The whole world will soon hear this story! We will tell

他们的身体钻进了明亮的雪里，用尾巴遮住了鼻子，闭上了眼睛。 “好好休息，队员们，”杰克说。 “这是你应得的，”安妮说。 “我们去医院吧，”乔叔叔说。 “是的！”Oki说。“我们和你一起走，”安妮说。 乔叔叔拄着拐杖一瘸一拐地向镇上走去。 雪本身也是蓝色的，映衬着清晨湛蓝的天空。 当他们到达医院时，已经聚集了一小群人。 杰克看到市长梅纳德和冈纳·卡森被一群带着相机和笔记本的记者包围着。 加纳的哈士奇们跑到一边去了。 孩子们在抚摸它们，摄影师在拍照。 当狗笑着喘气的时候，杰克可以看到它们呼出的白气。 “报纸在这里！”Oki说。 “整个世界很快就会听到这个故事！”我们会告诉你

everyone what you have done, Jack and Annie. They will honor you, too!" Oki and his uncle walked faster. "Whoa, wait," Jack said to Annie. "Stardust." "Right." Annie reached into her pocket and pulled out the dark blue box. "Are you coming?" Oki called back to them. "Yes! We'll be right there!" shouted Jack. As Oki and his uncle headed toward the crowd, Annie lifted the lid of the tiny box. Silvery powder shimmered inside. "We wish to be forgotten by everyone who saw us on our mission!" Annie said. Then she tossed the contents of the box into the air. Like tiny grains of windswept snow, the stardust flashed brilliantly over the street. Before anyone could even look up, the silver dust evaporated, and the sharp, crisp air was clear again. Annie put the tiny box back in her pocket. "Done," she said.

杰克和安妮，请告诉我你们所做的一切。 他们也会尊敬你的！”Oki和他的叔叔走得更快了。 “哇，等等，”杰克对安妮说。 “星尘”。“对的。”安妮把手伸进口袋，拿出了那个深蓝色的盒子。 “你要来吗？”Oki对他们喊道。 “是啊!我们马上就到！”杰克喊道。 当奥基和他的叔叔走向人群时，安妮打开了小盒子的盖子。 银粉在里面闪闪发光。 “我们希望所有看到我们执行任务的人都忘记我们！”安妮说。 然后她把盒子里的东西抛向空中。 星尘像被风吹过的细小雪花，在街上闪闪发光。 大家还没来得及抬头看，银粉就蒸发了，清新的空气又恢复了清新。 安妮把小盒子放回口袋里。 “好了，”她说。

Then she and Jack headed toward the gathering in front of the hospital. When they drew close to the crowd, Oki caught sight of them—but then he looked away, as if he'd never seen them before. His uncle did the same. Gunnar Kaasen also glanced in their direction, but his eyes passed over them without interest. "I guess it worked," said Jack. "Yeah, no one remembers us at all," Annie said. She sounded sad. Jack felt a little sad, too. "Mayor Maynard! Tell us about the heroes of the great serum race!" a reporter said. Mayor Maynard proudly stepped forward. "For five and a half days, twenty mushers and more than a hundred and sixty dogs hauled the lifesaving medicine to Nome!" he proclaimed. "How many miles was that?" a reporter asked as he scribbled on a pad. "Nearly seven hundred miles!" said the mayor. "And two of our citizens from Nome heroically took part in the relay—Leonhard Seppala and Gunnar Kaasen. Both mushers had strong lead dogs. Leonhard and his dog Togo ran across

然后她和杰克朝医院前的人群走去。 当他们靠近人群时，Oki看到了他们，但他把目光移开，好像他以前从未见过他们。 他的叔叔也这样做了。贡纳·卡森也朝他们的方向瞥了一眼，但他的目光毫无兴趣地掠过他们。 “我想它起作用了，”杰克说。 “是啊，根本没人记得我们，”安妮说。 她听起来很悲伤。杰克也感到有点难过。 “市长梅纳德!给我们讲讲伟大的血清种族的英雄们吧！”一位记者说。 梅纳德市长骄傲地走上前来。 “用了五天半的时间，二十名车夫和一百六十多条狗把救命药拖到了诺姆！”他宣布。 “那有多少英里？”一位记者一边在便笺簿上草草写着，一边问道。 “将近七百英里！”市长说。 “两名来自诺姆的公民英勇地参加了火炬传递——莱昂哈德·塞帕拉和贡纳尔·卡森。 两个拉雪橇的人都有强壮的领头犬。 莱昂哈德和他的狗多哥跑了过去

frozen Norton Sound to Golovin, and Gunnar and his dog Balto brought the medicine from Bluff to Nome!" Another reporter yelled to Gunnar Kaasen, "Congratulations, Mr.Kaasen! To what do you owe the success of your part of the relay?" "I owe everything to my lead dog, Balto!" said Gunnar. The famous musher pointed at the husky sitting patiently nearby. "He's a working dog, like all the others. But he's the best!" In the daylight, Jack got a good look at Balto. The husky had shaggy black fur, except for white paws and a white chest and a bit of white around his mouth. He had gentle brown eyes. "You told the mayor that you lost the medicine in an accident at one point," the reporter said. Gunnar nodded. "Yes, that's right. Yes, I did." "And how did you find it?" the reporter asked. "I…well, I…" The musher shook his head. "I'm not sure. After the accident, I discovered it missing. Somehow the package had come untied from my sled. I panicked and…well, I dug around

把诺顿峡湾冻到戈洛温，贡纳和他的狗巴尔托把药从布拉夫运到诺姆！”另一名记者对加纳·卡森喊道：“祝贺你，卡森先生！你把你那部分的成功归功于什么？”“我的一切都归功于我的领头狗巴尔图！”加纳说。 著名的牧场主指着那只耐心地坐在旁边的哈士奇。 “他是一只工作犬，和其他所有的狗一样。 但他是最棒的！”在白天，杰克把巴尔图看得很清楚。 哈士奇长着浓密的黑毛，除了爪子是白色的，胸部是白色的，嘴巴周围还有一点白色。 他有一双温柔的棕色眼睛。“你告诉市长，你在一次事故中丢失了药，”记者说。 贡纳点点头。“是的，没错。 是的，我看到了。”“你是怎么找到它的？”记者问。 “我……嗯，我……”牧场主摇了摇头。 “我不确定。事故发生后，我发现它不见了。 不知怎么的，包裹从我的雪橇上解开了。 我慌了，然后我就到处找