4 A Discovery

CHAPTER 4 A Discovery "Get up! What are you doing?" It was after sunrise and I had been sound asleep. Pap was standing over me looking sour and sick. He said: "What are you doing with this gun?" I realized he didn't know anything about what he had been doing last night, so I said: "Somebody tried to get in. I was waiting for him."

第四章一个发现“起来！你在干什么？”日出之后，我睡得很熟。 爸爸站在我身边，一副酸溜溜的样子。 他说：“你拿着这把枪干什么？”我意识到他根本不知道自己昨晚做了什么，于是我说：“有人试图进来。 我在等他。”

"Why didn't you wake me up?" "I tried, but I couldn't. I couldn't budge you." "Well, all right. Don't stand there all day. Go out and see if there's a fish on the line for breakfast." He unlocked the door and I ran out to the riverbank. I noticed some tree branches and things floating downstream, so I knew the river had begun to rise. I walked along the bank and saw a canoe. A beauty, too, about thirteen or fourteen feet long. I jumped into the water head first, clothes on and all, and swam for it. At first I thought my pap would be glad to see the canoe. It would be worth ten dollars at least. But when I got to shore, pap wasn't in sight. Just then I had another idea. I decided to hide the canoe. Then, instead of hiding in the woods when I ran away, I could go down the river about fifty miles and camp in one place for good. I was pretty close to the cabin by this time. I kept thinking I could hear the old man coming,

“你为什么不叫醒我？”“我试过了，但不行。 我不能动摇你。”“好吧，好吧。 别整天站在那儿。 出去看看钓索上有没有鱼当早餐吃。” 他打开门，我跑到河边。 我注意到一些树枝和一些东西漂在下游，所以我知道河水开始上涨了。 我沿着河岸走，看见一只独木舟。 也是个美人，大约有十三四英尺长。 我穿着衣服，头先跳进水里，向水里游去。 起初，我以为爸爸看到独木舟会很高兴。 它至少值十美元。 但当我上岸时，爸爸却不见了。 就在这时，我有了另一个主意。 我决定把独木舟藏起来。 这样，当我逃跑的时候，就不用躲在树林里了，我可以顺流而下约五十英里，在一个地方永远扎营。 这时我已经离小屋很近了。 我一直觉得我能听到那个老人走过来，

but I was finally able to get the canoe hidden. Then I saw pap down the path. He was aiming the gun at some birds in the distance. He hadn't seen anything. While pap and I rested after breakfast, I tried to think of a way to keep him and the widow from trying to follow me. That would be better than just hoping I could get away before they noticed I was gone. I couldn't figure it out for a while, but by and by pap sat up to drink some water and said: "The next time a man comes prowling around here you wake me up, you hear? That man was up to no good. The next time you better wake me up." Then he lay down and fell asleep. What he said gave me the very idea I wanted. I could fix it now so nobody would ever think of following me. At about noon we got up and walked along the bank. The river was rising pretty fast and lots of

但我终于把独木舟藏起来了 然后我看见爸爸沿着小路走。 他把枪瞄准远处的几只鸟。 他什么也没看见。当我和爸爸吃完早饭休息时，我努力想办法不让他和寡妇跟踪我。 这总比希望我能在他们发现我之前逃走要好。 我一时想不明白，过了一会儿，爸爸坐起来喝水，说：“下次再有人在这儿鬼鬼祟祟地走来走去，你就把我叫醒，听见了吗？ 那个人不怀好意。 下次你最好叫醒我。” 然后他躺下睡着了。 他说的话正是我想要的。 我现在就能搞定这样就没人会想跟踪我了。 大约中午时分，我们起来沿着河岸散步。 河水涨得很快，很多

driftwood was going by. Pretty soon, along came part of a raft—nine logs tied together. We went out and pulled it ashore. Pap wanted to head right to town and sell the logs, so he locked me in the cabin, took our little boat, and started towing the raft. It must have been around half- past three. I didn't think he would come back that night. I waited until I thought he was far enough away, and then I went to work with my saw. I was out of the cabin before he was on the other side of the river. I took all of our supplies to the canoe: the corn meal, side of bacon, all the coffee and sugar, and the ammunition. I took the bucket and gourd, a dipper, a tin cup, my old saw, two blankets, the skillet, and the coffee pot. I also took fish-lines, matches and a few other things—everything that was worth a cent. I cleaned out the place. I wanted an axe, but there was only one and I had a special plan for it. Finally I packed up the gun. I covered up the tracks I had made and

浮木镇经过。很快，木筏的一部分出现了——九根木头绑在一起。 我们把它拖上岸。 爸爸想直接进城去卖木头，所以他把我锁在船舱里，乘着我们的小船，开始拖着木筏。 那一定是在三点半左右。 我认为那天晚上他不会回来了。 我一直等到他走得够远的时候，才开始用锯子干活。 他还没到河对岸，我就离开了小屋。 我把我们所有的给养都带上了独木舟：玉米粉、一小块培根、所有的咖啡和糖，还有弹药。 我拿了水桶和葫芦，一个勺子，一个锡杯，我的旧锯子，两条毯子，煎锅和咖啡壶。 我还带了鱼线、火柴和其他一些东西——所有值钱的东西。 我打扫了这个地方。我想要一把斧头，但只有一把，而且我有一个特别的计划。 最后我把枪收拾好。 我把自己留下的痕迹盖上，然后

patched up the hole I had cut in the back of the cabin. I stood on the riverbank and looked out over the river. All safe. Then I took the axe and smashed in the door. It was all part of my plan. I beat it and hacked at it a lot. Then I poured some old pig's blood all around and dragged a sack full of rocks along the ground toward the river. That left gruesome- looking tracks, as if a body had been dragged. I wished Tom Sawyer was there. I knew he would have been interested in this kind of business and thrown in some fancy touches. Next I pulled out some of my hair. I made sure the axe was covered with the pig's blood and stuck those bits of hair to the axe. I threw the axe into the corner of the cabin. Then I thought of one more thing. I took the sack of corn meal, tore a small hole in it, and left a trail going in the other direction from my canoe. I carried the sack through the grass to a shallow lake. I dropped the stone that pap used to sharpen his knife there,

我把我在小屋后面挖的洞补好了。 我站在河岸上眺望着河水。 所有的安全。然后我拿起斧头把门砸开。 这都是我计划的一部分。 我打败了它，并对它进行了大量的攻击。 然后我倒了一些老猪的血，拖着一袋石头沿着地面向河边走去。 这留下了令人毛骨悚然的痕迹，好像有尸体被拖走了。 我真希望汤姆·索亚也在那儿。 我知道他会对这类生意感兴趣，并加入了一些花哨的东西。 接下来我拔了一些头发。 我确保斧头上沾满了猪血，然后把那些头发粘在斧头上。 我把斧头扔到小屋的角落里。 然后我又想到了一件事。 我拿起那袋玉米粉，在上面撕开了一个小洞，在独木舟的另一个方向留下了一条痕迹。 我背着麻袋穿过草丛来到一个浅湖边。 我把爸爸用来磨刀的石头掉在那儿了，

too, as if it was left by accident. Then I tied up the hole in the sack of corn meal and brought it back to the canoe. It was about dark now, so I moved the canoe down the river under some willows that hung over the bank and waited for the moon to rise. I ate a bit and laid down in the canoe to think up a plan. I said to myself, they'll follow the tracks to the shore and look in the river for me. Then they'll follow that trail of corn meal to the lake and search around there. They'll think a robber killed me and took all the things. They won't ever look for anything but my dead body. They'll soon get tired of that and then they won't look for me anymore. I decided to hide out on Jackson's Island. I knew the place pretty well and nobody ever went there. Then I could paddle to the town at night, slink around, and pick up things I wanted. I was pretty tired and soon fell asleep. When I woke up, I didn't know where I was for a

而且，好像是不小心留下的。 然后我把玉米粉袋上的洞捆好，把它带回独木舟上。 这时天快黑了，我把独木舟划到河岸上的柳树下，等着月亮出来。 我吃了一点，躺在独木舟上想个办法。 我对自己说，他们会顺着足迹到岸边，到河里找我。 然后他们会沿着玉米粉的踪迹找到湖边，在那里搜寻。 他们会以为是强盗杀了我，抢走了所有的东西。 他们只会找我的尸体。 他们很快就会厌倦的，然后他们就不会再找我了。 我决定躲在杰克逊岛上。 我对那个地方很熟悉，从来没有人去过那里。 然后我就可以在晚上划到镇上，偷偷摸摸地，捡我想要的东西。 我很累，很快就睡着了。 当我醒来的时候，我不知道我在哪里