4 Bog-Burglars Do Not Always Tell the Truth

4. BOG-BURGLARS DO NOT ALWAYS TELL THE TRUTH 'The Hooligans WORSHIP this stupid book,' Hiccup moaned, picking up one of the torn bits and trying to fit it to another. 'They think it has the answer to everything… My father thinks it's going to win him his bet against Big-Boobied Bertha and NOW look at it… it's ruined… what were you thinking of, Toothless?' 'W-w-was on the chair,' sniffed Toothless. 'P-p-paper is kind of woody… Me eat the book first, then the chair.' 'What are we going to do?' Hiccup wailed, throwing down the bits of book in despair. 'We can't mend this! And Toothless will be banished!' 'Toothless d-d-doesn't want to be banished…' wailed Toothless. Camicazi was doing a handstand against the wall, but she came down to say, 'I'm sure there's other copies of that book in the Meathead Public Library. All we have to do is nip over there and steal one.' There was a stunned silence.

4. “流氓们很崇拜这本破书，”小嗝嗝呻吟着，捡起一本破书，想把它装在另一本上。 “他们认为它能解决一切问题……我父亲以为它能帮他赢下和大胸伯莎的打赌，可现在你看看……它毁了……你在想什么呢，无牙？”“在——在椅子上。”无牙嗅了嗅。 “纸是木质的……我先吃书，再吃椅子。”“我们该怎么办？”小嗝嗝哭了起来，绝望地扔掉了书的碎片。 “我们修不了！”无牙将被驱逐！“没牙——没牙——不想被放逐……” 卡米卡齐当时正靠墙倒立，但她走下来说：“我敢肯定，在Meathead公共图书馆还有那本书的其他副本。” 我们要做的就是溜过去偷一个。”一阵惊愕的沉默。

'That's a GREAT idea, that is,' said Fishlegs, sarcastically. 'What about the Hairy Scary Librarian and his Heart-Slicers?' 'Oh, come on, it's just one teeny little mad old Librarian guarding that whopping great Library, we could be in and out before he even knew we were there,' said Camicazi breezily. 'How about it, Hiccup? Are you on for proving that Hooligans are just as good at Burglary as Bog-Burglars?' Now, Camicazi wasn't strictly telling the truth, was she, when she said that the Hairy Scary Librarian was the ONLY person guarding the Meathead Public Library. As we saw in Chapter One, there was also the small matter of the four hundred Meathead Warrior Guards, not to mention their Driller-Dragons. Unfortunately Hiccup didn't know anything about the Meathead Public Library, apart from the fact that he had met the Hairy Scary Librarian once or twice and he didn't like the look of him. And, he thought, if the Library was as big as Camicazi said it was, perhaps they could just sneak in very quietly and whip one of the books without anyone being any the wiser? And then Toothless wouldn't be banished, and Stoick would be pleased, and they would win his bet for him.

“真是个好主意，”鱼腿讽刺地说。 “多毛的恐怖图书管理员和他的切心刀怎么办？”“哦，得了吧，不过是一个疯疯癫癫的小图书管理员在守卫着那座巨大的图书馆，我们可能在他发现我们之前就进进出出了。”卡米卡齐轻松地说。 “怎么样，小嗝嗝？”你是不是证明了流氓和沼泽窃贼一样擅长入室行窃？”卡米卡齐说毛吓人的图书管理员是唯一看守蠢蛋公共图书馆的人，她说的并不是真的，对吧？ 正如我们在第一章看到的，还有四百名蠢蛋守卫的小问题，更不用说他们的钻龙了。 不幸的是，小嗝嗝对笨蛋公共图书馆一无所知，只知道他见过一两次吓人毛图书管理员，不喜欢他的样子。 而且，他想，如果图书馆真像卡米卡齐说的那么大，也许他们可以悄悄地溜进去，用鞭子抽打其中一本书，而不让任何人知道？ 这样无牙就不会被驱逐，斯托伊克就会很高兴，他们就会为他赢得赌注。

So he said slowly, 'OK then… let's do that…' And from that moment on, they were DOOMED. 'YIPEEEE!' sang Camicazi, punching the air. 'It's BURGLARY time! This is great, I've been looking for an excuse to steal my mother's Stealth Dragon!' and she hurried out of the house and towards the Dragon Stables, followed closely by a worried Hiccup, a worried Toothless, and an even more worried Fishlegs. 'Hang on a second,' puffed Hiccup, feeling that the situation was spiralling out of control, 'what's all this about stealing people's Stealth Dragons? What is a Stealth Dragon? And where did your mother get it from in the first place?' 'She nicked it from Madguts the Murderous two days ago,' explained Camicazi. 'It's one of their Secret Weapons. I expect that's why she accepted your father's burglary bet. She knew he would NEVER come up with anything more impressive than burgling a Secret Weapon from the Murderous Tribe.' 'Or anything CRAZIER,' Hiccup pointed out, 'NOBODY steals things from Madguts the Murderous… And what are we going to need this Stealth Dragon thing for, anyway, if this Library is only guarded by one person?'

于是他慢慢地说：“好吧……我们就这么做吧……”从那一刻起，他们就注定要失败了。 “YIPEEEE !卡米卡齐挥舞着拳头唱着。 “盗窃时间到了！”太好了，我一直在找借口偷我妈妈的隐形龙！她匆匆走出家门，朝龙马厩走去，后面紧跟着焦急的小嗝嗝、焦急的无牙和更加焦急的鱼腿。 “等一下，”小嗝嗝喘着气说，他觉得形势要失控了，“偷别人的隐形龙是怎么回事？ 什么是隐形龙？那你妈妈一开始从哪里得到的？“这是她两天前从杀人狂麦德古那儿偷来的，”卡米卡齐解释说。 “这是他们的秘密武器之一。 我想这就是她接受你父亲的入室盗窃赌注的原因。 她知道他永远不会想出比从杀人部落偷走秘密武器更令人印象深刻的事情了。“或者更疯狂的事，”小嗝嗝指出，“没人会偷杀人狂麦德古斯的东西……再说，如果图书馆只有一个人看守，我们还需要这条隐形龙做什么呢？”

'Oh, well,' replied Camicazi, thinking on her feet, 'you never know, the Hairy Scary Librarian could be looking out the window when we turn up… and he won't see us coming, will he, if we're sitting on the back of a Stealth Dragon? Here we are!' she said happily. Camicazi had now reached the Dragon Stables, and she flung open a particularly enormous stable door, and gestured in triumph to the inside. 'Feast your eyes on that!' whooped Camicazi. 'THAT is a Stealth Dragon!' Author's note: Unfortunately we cannot show you a picture of a Stealth Dragon, due to the fact that they are invisible.

“哦，好吧，”卡米卡齐站起来想了想，回答说，“谁知道呢，我们出现的时候，那个吓人的多毛图书管理员可能正在往窗外看……如果我们坐在隐形龙的背上，他就看不见我们过来了，是不是？” 我们到了！她高兴地说。 卡米卡齐现在已经到了龙马厩，她猛地打开马厩的一扇特别大的门，得意地指了指里面。 “好好看看吧！”卡米卡齐喊道。 “那是一条隐形龙！”作者注：不幸的是，我们不能给你看隐形龙的照片，因为它们是隐形的。