17 DING DONG

Mom and I set up some old garbage cans with sunlight, water, and one forest rose each. Thank goodness for sunglasses—our whole barn was lit up with bip burps. When the magic doorbell rang, it took only a millisecond for me to fling the door open. "MARSHMALLOW!" I squealed. "You're HUGE!" I could hardly believe it. My baby dragon was back, and he was enormous. Almost as big as my friend Tiny! Marshmallow leaned his head down, and I

妈妈和我在一些旧垃圾桶里装上阳光、水和一朵森林玫瑰。 谢天谢地，我们有了太阳镜——我们的整个谷仓都被屁股打嗝照亮了。 当神奇的门铃响起时，我只花了一毫秒就把门推开了。 “棉花糖!”我叫苦不迭。 “你是巨大的!”我简直不敢相信。 我的小龙回来了，他块头很大。 几乎和我的朋友小拇指一样大！棉花糖低下头，而我

wrapped my arms around part of his giant neck and gave him a hug. He leaned his head even further down, and Sassafras purred as he and Marshmallow gently bopped their heads together. "Everyone ready?" called a frog voice. Pip hopped down from Marshmallow's back, and I covered a giggle. With his scarf and goggles, he looked like a tiny frog airplane pilot! "I'm going to fly on Marshmallow and direct him to the different roses. Do you have a container or scooper for me to pour out the bips?" We heard a dragging sound behind us and Mom appeared, pulling four large garbage cans that had rope between them. She gave one of Marshmallow's tree-trunk legs a hug, and then hurried over to hand Pip a plastic cup that was

我用胳膊搂住他巨大的脖子，给了他一个拥抱。 他把头更低了，当他和棉花糖轻轻地把头碰在一起时，檫毛发出了呼噜声。 “大家都准备好了吗？”一个青蛙的声音叫道。 皮普从棉花糖的背上跳下来，我忍住咯咯的笑。 戴着围巾和护目镜，他看起来就像一个小青蛙飞行员！“我要乘棉花糖飞到不同的玫瑰那里。 你有容器或铲子让我倒出来吗？”我们听到身后传来拖拽的声音，妈妈出现了，拖着四个大垃圾桶，垃圾桶之间用绳子捆着。 她给了棉花糖的一条树干腿一个拥抱，然后赶紧把一个塑料杯子递给了比普

almost as big as him. "Can you lift that, or is it too big?" Pip grinned and held it over his head. "No problem." Mom turned to me next. "OK, Zoey. I need your help lifting these up onto Marshmallow. Thankfully the bips aren't too heavy." Pip went over to Marshmallow and made some hand gestures. Marshmallow lay down on his stomach and stretched his neck out flat along the ground. Mom and I set it up so that two garbage cans full of bips were on each side of Marshmallow, with the ropes running between them across his back. "Good luck!" Mom and I cheered as Marshmallow beat his giant wings and he and Pip took off for the forest. About an hour later they returned with empty cans. "It worked!" Pip cheered. "We could see the forest roses sparking back to life from the air. It was incredible. And not a moment too soon. We spotted a few hippogriffs hatching as we flew." Pip took off his scarf and goggles and wiped his forehead. "Now remember, hippogriffs are very shy, and very protective of their babies… but if

几乎和他一样大。“你能举起它吗？还是它太大了？”匹普咧嘴一笑，把它举过头顶。 “没问题。”妈妈接着转向我。 “好吧,佐伊。我需要你帮我把这些搬到棉花糖上。 谢天谢地，臀部不太重。” 皮普走向棉花糖，做了一些手势。 棉花糖趴在地上，脖子沿着地面伸直。 妈妈和我安排好了，棉花糖的两边各放了两个装满屁股的垃圾桶，它们之间用绳子套在它的背上。 “祝你好运!”妈妈和我欢呼着，棉花糖拍打着他巨大的翅膀，他和皮普向森林飞去了。 大约一个小时后，他们带着空罐子回来了。 “成功了!”皮普欢呼。“我们可以看到森林里的玫瑰从空中重新焕发生机。 太不可思议了。时机还不算太早。 我们在飞行时发现了几头鹰头马身有翼兽正在孵化。” 皮普脱下围巾和护目镜，擦了擦额头。 “现在记住，鹰头马身有翼兽非常害羞，而且非常保护它们的孩子……但是如果……

you all can be very, very quiet, I know where we can probably see a baby hippogriff eating its first meal of forest roses."

你们都要非常、非常安静，我知道我们可能在哪里看到一只小鹰头马身有翼兽吃它的第一顿森林玫瑰。”