15 PEANUT BUTTER

Chapter fifteen, Peanut butter. Gorp answered after Pip's third knock on his door. "Zoey! Pip!" Our forest monster friend hugged us both. "Oh… and Sassafras, too," he added nervously. He gulped and held out a hand, squinting while Sassafras purred and rubbed against it. Seeing how uncomfortable he was, I scooped up a wiggly Sassafras. We explained the whole story. "As my family says, a spoonful of peanut butter a day keeps the hiccups away!" Gorp went back inside his house and returned holding a toothpick full of peanut butter. "I figured a spoon would be too big, but

第十五章，花生酱。 在匹普第三次敲他的门后，戈普开门了。 “佐伊!皮普!”我们的森林怪物朋友拥抱了我们俩。 “哦……还有黄樟。”他紧张地补充道。 他咽了一口唾沫，伸出一只手，眯着眼睛看着黄樟在他手上蹭来蹭去。 看到他很不舒服，我就拿起一根摇摇晃晃的黄樟。 我们解释了整个故事。 “就像我家人说的，每天一勺花生酱可以让打嗝远离我！”戈普回到屋里，拿着一根装满花生酱的牙签回来了。 “我以为勺子太大了，但是

this should do the trick!" I recorded Wishy's hiccup timing in my journal, and then gave her the toothpick of peanut butter. "I just—hic—eat the—hic—whole thing—hic—?" Gorp folded his arms proudly. "Exactly." Wishy stuck the glob of peanut butter into her mouth. She swallowed a few times. "That was really good—hic—peanut butter. Thank you, Gorp—hi—!" Pip and I looked at each other. I grabbed my stopwatch to be sure. Then I gave Gorp a big hug. "Thank you, Gorp!" I showed him my data chart. "The peanut butter helped a lot!" I let out a big breath. We were finally getting closer to fixing this!

这应该能奏效！”我把威西打嗝的时间记录在我的日记里，然后给她一根花生酱牙签。 “我只是——吃了——整个——整个——呃——？”戈普骄傲地交叉双臂。 “没错。”威斯把一团花生酱塞进嘴里。 她吞咽了几次。 “花生酱真的很好吃。 谢谢你，高——嗨——！”皮普和我面面相觑。 我抓起秒表确认一下。 然后我给了Gorp一个大大的拥抱。 “谢谢你，哥普！”我给他看了我的数据图表。 “花生酱帮了很大的忙！”我深深地吸了一口气。 我们终于接近解决这个问题了！