11 Chapter 9 Hard Work

Chapter 9 Hard Work After the war ended, Johnny began buying more land. Some of his orchards were less than an acre in size. Others covered hundreds of acres. He took care of his orchards all by himself for most of his life.

战争结束后，约翰尼开始购买更多的土地。 他的一些果园面积不到一英亩。 其他的覆盖了数百英亩。 他一生的大部分时间都是自己打理果园。

Sometimes he needed help for certain jobs. When he was forty-five, he hired two boys for a few days. They helped him build a one-room cabin on some of his wilderness land. Each night, they shared his simple dinner, then slept on the ground beside Johnny's campfire. Wolves howled and owls screeched all around them. At first, the boys were scared, but Johnny told them not to worry. He was used to such things and knew the animals wouldn't hurt them.

有时他在某些工作上需要帮助。 45岁时，他雇了两个男孩当了几天工。 他们帮他在荒地上建了一间只有一个房间的小屋。 每天晚上，他们一起吃简单的晚餐，然后睡在约翰尼营火旁的地上。 狼在他们周围嚎叫，猫头鹰在他们周围尖叫。 起初，孩子们很害怕，但约翰尼告诉他们不要担心。 他已经习惯了这样的事情，知道动物不会伤害他们。

Johnny's brother-in-law often helped in his orchards. However, none of Johnny's family knew how much land he owned or how much money he had. He sometimes buried his money among the roots of a favorite tree. He didn't trust banks. America's banks got in trouble in the 1820s. Many businesses failed. Times were hard for Johnny, too. Squatters took over some of his land. And he also had trouble repaying some loans. He soon lost all of his orchards in Pennsylvania and many of those in Ohio. But he didn't give up. Around 1830, he planted his first orchard in Indiana. By now most people knew him as Johnny Appleseed rather than John Chapman. In the

约翰尼的姐夫经常在他的果园里帮忙。 然而，约翰尼的家人都不知道他拥有多少土地或他有多少钱。 他有时把钱埋在一棵最喜欢的树的树根下。 他不信任银行。美国的银行在19世纪20年代陷入困境。 许多企业都失败了。约翰尼的日子也不好过。 擅自占用者占用了他的一些土地。 他还在偿还一些贷款方面遇到了困难。 他很快就失去了宾夕法尼亚州的所有果园和俄亥俄州的许多果园。 但他没有放弃。大约在1830年，他在印第安纳州种植了他的第一个果园。 到现在为止，大多数人都知道他是约翰尼·苹果籽，而不是约翰·查普曼。 在

following years, he bought 140 acres for only $250. He worked in his Indiana orchards for the rest of his life.

接下来的几年里，他只花了50美元就买下了140英亩土地。 他在印第安纳州的果园里度过了余生。

Johnny never got married or had children. Growing up in a noisy house as a boy may be one reason he preferred to live alone!

约翰尼没有结婚，也没有孩子。 作为一个男孩，在一个嘈杂的房子里长大，这可能是他喜欢独自生活的一个原因!

Still, there were many rumors about his love life. One says that he fell in love with a woman named Dorothy Durand. The story goes that she loved him, too. But their families kept them apart because they believed in different religions. Dorothy died of a broken heart. Johnny never got over her. He often returned to place apple blossoms on her grave. In the last years of his life, Johnny owned thousands of apple trees and lots of land, perhaps as many as twelve hundred acres. This didn't mean he was rich, but it's likely he was too busy to go farther west. Besides, settlement on the West Coast hadn't gathered much steam yet. But who knows—if he had lived long enough he might have beaten settlers to the Pacific coast and planted apple trees there, too.

尽管如此，关于他的爱情生活还是有很多传言。 一个说他爱上了一个叫多萝西·杜兰德的女人。 据说她也爱他。 但是他们的家人把他们分开了，因为他们信仰不同的宗教。 多萝西死于心碎。 约翰尼永远忘不了她。 他经常回来把苹果花放在她的坟上。 在他生命的最后几年里，约翰尼拥有数千棵苹果树和大片土地，也许多达1200英亩。 这并不意味着他很有钱，但很可能是因为他太忙了，没时间去更远的西部。 此外，在西海岸定居还没有形成很大的动力。 但谁知道呢——如果他活得够久的话，他可能会赶在殖民者之前到达太平洋海岸，并在那里种上苹果树。