7 EASY-PEASY

EASY-PEASY Now they were ready to begin. Ivy went to the bedroom section of her room and pulled a cardboard box out from under her bed. Then she looked at Bean. "This part is really secret," she said. "I promise I won't tell anyone," said Bean. Ivy opened the box and took out a square thing wrapped in pink silky cloth. It was her spell book. Bean thought that a spell book would be mysterious looking, with a magic sign on the cover or something. But this spell book was plain black. It was old, though. Ivy said it was almost a hundred years old. The pages were yellowish. "Where'd you get it?" Bean whispered. "My aunt gave it to me," Ivy said.

现在他们准备好开始了。 艾薇走到卧室，从床底下拿出一个纸板箱。 然后她看了看比恩。“这部分真的是秘密，”她说。 “我保证不会告诉任何人，”比恩说。 艾薇打开盒子，拿出一个用粉色绸布包着的方形东西。 那是她的咒语书。比恩认为咒语书应该看起来很神秘，在封面上有一个魔法标志什么的。 但这本咒语书是纯黑色的。 不过它很旧了。艾薇说它差不多有一百年的历史了。 书页泛黄。“你从哪儿弄来的？”豆低声说。 “我姨妈给我的，”艾薇说。

"Is she one?" asked Bean. "She says she isn't," said Ivy. "But I'm not so sure." Ivy flipped through the book for the dancing spell. She read it to herself, and then she whispered it, but so low that Bean couldn't hear. Bean didn't mind. Everyone knew that witches' spells were private. After a few minutes, Ivy said, "Got it. It's a pretty easy spell. The only thing we need is worms." Luckily, there were lots of worms in

“她是吗？”比恩问。“她说她不是，”艾薇说。 “但我不太确定。”艾薇翻着书念跳舞咒语。 她自己读了一遍，然后小声说，但声音太低了，比恩听不见。 比恩并不介意。大家都知道女巫的咒语是保密的。 几分钟后，艾薇说：“明白了。 这是个很简单的咒语。我们唯一需要的就是虫子。” 幸运的是，里面有很多虫子

Bean's backyard. Tons. But now they were going to have to sneak into Bean's yard and dig them up. Without Nancy seeing. But also luckily, Bean knew how to get into her yard by going through the other backyards on Pancake Court. There was one really gross dog-poopy yard and there was Mrs. Trantz, who didn't like kids in her garden, and there was a lot of climbing. But aside from that, Bean said, it was easypeasy. Ivy put the big black book in her backpack. Bean tucked the wand into her back pocket. It was still a little drippy, but there was nothing Bean could do about that. Carefully, they tiptoed down the stairs. Ivy's mother was still working in her office, and they slipped past her door like quiet ants. Soon they were moving quickly toward the back fence.

Bean的后院。吨。但现在他们得偷偷溜进比恩的院子，把它们挖出来。 没有南希看见。但幸运的是，比恩知道如何穿过煎饼苑的其他后院进入她家的院子。 有一个非常恶心的狗屎院子，还有特兰茨太太，她不喜欢孩子们在她的花园里，还有很多攀岩活动。 但除此之外，比恩说，这很容易。 艾薇把那本黑色的大书放进她的背包里。 比恩把魔杖塞进后面的口袋里。 它仍然有点滴水，但比恩对此无能为力。 他们小心翼翼地踮着脚尖走下楼梯。 艾薇的妈妈还在办公室工作，他们像安静的蚂蚁一样溜过她的门。 很快，他们迅速向后栅栏移动。

Ivy, Bean saw, did not really know how to climb a fence. She just jumped at it, hoping that she would get to the top. Bean showed her how to find the little holes and bumps that make a ladder. When they got to the top, Bean whispered, "This is Ruby and Trevor's house. They have a good sandbox."

比恩发现，艾薇其实并不知道怎么爬篱笆。 她跳了上去，希望能爬到顶端。 比恩教她如何找到构成梯子的小洞和凸起。 当他们到达山顶时，比恩低声说：“这是鲁比和特雷弗的家。 他们有一个很好的沙盒。”

The good news was that there was a gate on the other side of Ruby and Trevor's yard. The bad news was that it led to the really gross dog-poopy yard. Bean and Ivy walked on tiptoes, but still Ivy stepped in some. Fester, the dog whose poop it was, came out to sniff them. He was a nice dog, and he seemed sorry that his yard was so disgusting. The next fence was low and easy, except that the wand fell out of Bean's pocket, and she had to go back and get it. Then came

好消息是，在鲁比和特雷弗的院子的另一边有一扇门。 坏消息是，它通向一个非常恶心的狗屎院子。 比恩和艾薇踮着脚尖走着，但艾薇还是踩到了一些。 那只叫“溃烂”的狗出来嗅了嗅它们。 他是一只很好的狗，他似乎很抱歉他的院子这么恶心。 下一道篱笆又低又容易，只是魔杖从比恩的口袋里掉了出来，她不得不回去捡。 然后是

Jake the Teenager's house. There was loud music with lots of bad words in it coming from the garage. There was no way Jake the Teenager was ever going to hear them walking through his backyard. Mrs. Trantz was next. Getting into her yard was no problem. Ivy and Bean climbed over the stone wall and dropped down onto her lawn. Everything in Mrs. Trantz's yard was perfectly neat. Her tulips were lined up in rows. Her apple tree was tied so that its branches grew flat. Her birdbath had no birds in it. "If Mrs. Trantz sees us, she's going to be really mad," said Bean. Bean knew this

少年杰克的家。 车库里传来嘈杂的音乐声，里面夹杂着许多骂人的话。 少年杰克不可能听到他们走过他的后院。 下一个是特兰茨太太。进入她的院子没有问题。 艾薇和比恩爬过石墙，掉到她家的草坪上。 特兰茨太太院子里的一切都非常整洁。 她的郁金香排成一排。 她把苹果树捆了起来，使树枝长得很平。 她的水盆里没有鸟。 “如果特朗兹太太看到我们，她会非常生气的。”比恩说。 比恩知道这一点