9 The Families Feud

CHAPTER 9 The Families Feud The next Sunday we all went to church. After dinner that night, Miss Sophia asked me to get her Bible from the church because she had forgotten it there. I went to the church and found her Bible. It seemed strange to me that she would be so nervous about it. When I shook the book, a note fell out with "half-past two" written on it. When I got home, Miss Sophia took me to her room and looked in the Bible. When she found

第九章家庭纷争下个星期天我们都去教堂做礼拜。 那天晚饭后，索菲亚小姐让我去教堂拿她的《圣经》，因为她把《圣经》忘在那里了。 我去教堂找到了她的《圣经》。 我觉得很奇怪，她竟会为此如此紧张。 当我摇动那本书时，一张写着“两点半”的纸条掉了出来。 我回到家后，索菲娅小姐把我带到她的房间，翻阅《圣经》。 当她发现

and read the note, she asked if I had read it. I lied and told her I couldn't read. Then she hugged me and told me to go out and play. Outside, one of the slaves was following me. When I asked him why, he said he had something important to show me. I followed him down to the swamp, far from the house. Hepointed to an areain the distance, told me to look in there, and then left. I found a little open patch as big as a bedroom hung all around with vines. There was a man laying there asleep. It was old Jim! I woke him up. He was so happy to see me that he nearly cried. He said he had followed me in the water the night we were separated, but he couldn't call out for me because he was afraid someone would have heard him and caught him. "Why didn't you come and get me sooner, Jim?" "Well, I've been busy gathering supplies and fixing the raft—"

她看了纸条，问我有没有看过。 我骗她说我不识字。 然后她抱着我，叫我出去玩。 外面，一个奴隶在跟踪我。 我问他为什么，他说有重要的东西要给我看。 我跟着他走到离房子很远的沼泽地。 他指了指远处的一个地方，让我往里面看，然后就走了。 我发现了一小块像卧室那么大的空地，上面爬满了藤蔓。 有个人躺在那里睡着了。 是老吉姆！我把他叫醒了。 他见到我高兴得几乎哭了出来。 他说我们分开的那天晚上他在水里跟着我，但他不敢喊我，因为他害怕有人听到他的话，抓住他。 “你为什么不早点来接我，吉姆？”“嗯，我一直在忙着收集给养和修理木筏——”

"What raft, Jim?" "Our old raft." "You mean it wasn't smashed to pieces?" "No, she was torn up a good, but I was able to fix her up just fine. When I saw that you were safe in the old house, I made friends with some of their slaves, and they kept me hidden here." I told Jim to stay put and then headed back up to the house. I don't want to talk much about the next day. I reckon I'll cut it pretty short. I woke up early, and noticed how still it was. There didn't seem to be anybody stirring, which was unusual. Buck was gone and the house was empty. I went outside and asked one of the slaves, who told me

“什么木筏，吉姆？”“我们的旧木筏。” “你是说它没有被砸成碎片？”“不，她被撕碎了，但我把她治好了。 当我看到你在老房子里很安全的时候，我和他们的一些奴隶交了朋友，他们把我藏在这里。” 我叫吉姆待在原地不动，然后就回屋去了。 我不想多谈第二天的事。 我想我还是长话短说吧。 我很早就醒了，注意到外面是多么的寂静。 似乎没有人在走动，这是不寻常的。 巴克走了，房子里空无一人。 我出去问一个仆人，谁告诉我的

that Miss Sophia had run away with one of the Shepherdsons. They were in love! Both families were off in a battle with each other now. I ran toward the river and soon heard guns. I climbed up a tree and watched the battle. It was horrible. The two families were fighting fiercely and shooting at each other. I found Buck and he told me about Miss Sophia running away with young Harney Shepherdson. Buck said they'd got across the river safely. I was glad of that, but Buck was angry that he had never shot Harney. I had never heard anything like it. All of a sudden, bang! bang! bang! went three or four guns. Buck and the boys with him jumped for the river. Both of them seemed to be hurt. As they swam down the current, some men ran along the bank shooting at them. It made me so sick that I almost fell out of the tree. I won't tell all that happened next. It would make me sick again if I was to do that. I wished I had never come ashore that night to see such things. I

索菲娅小姐跟谢泼德一家的人私奔了。 他们相爱了！现在两家都在互相争斗。 我朝河边跑去，很快就听到了枪声。 我爬上一棵树观看战斗。 太可怕了。两个家庭打得很激烈，互相射击。 我找到巴克，他告诉我索菲娅小姐和小哈尼·谢泼德森私奔的事。 巴克说他们已经安全渡过了河。 我很高兴，但巴克却很生气，因为他从来没有向哈尼开枪。 我从来没有听到过这样的声音。 突然，砰！砰!砰!开了三四枪。 巴克和他的孩子们向河里跳去。 他们俩似乎都受伤了。 当他们顺流而下时，一些人沿着河岸跑向他们射击。 它使我非常恶心，我几乎从树上掉下来。 接下来发生的事我就不说了。 如果我那样做，我又会生病的。 我真希望那天晚上我没有上岸看到这些东西。 我

won't ever forget them. I stayed in the tree until it began to get dark. I was afraid to come down. Sometimes I heard guns away off in the woods. Twice I saw little gangs of men gallop past with guns, so I reckoned the trouble was still going on. I was mighty down-hearted. I made up my mind I wouldn't ever go near that house again. I thought I was to blame, somehow. I judged that that piece of paper meant that Miss Sophia was to meet Harney somewhere at half-past two and run off. I should have told her father about that paper and the curious way she acted. Then maybe this awful mess wouldn't have happened. When I got down out of the tree I crept along down the riverbank. I cried a little for Buck, for he had been mighty good to me. It was dark now. I never went near the house, but struck through the woods and made for the swamp. My souls, but I was scared! I raised a yell. A voice nearby said:

我永远不会忘记他们。我一直呆在树上，直到天黑。 我害怕下来。 有时我听到远处树林里的枪声。 我两次看到一小群人拿着枪疾驰而过，所以我估计麻烦还在继续。 我非常沮丧。 我打定主意再也不接近那所房子了。 不知怎么的，我觉得是我的错。 我断定那张纸条的意思是说，索菲娅小姐两点半要在什么地方和哈尼见面，然后跑掉。 我应该把那张纸和她古怪的行为告诉她父亲。 那也许就不会发生这么糟糕的事了。 当我从树上下来时，我沿着河岸爬了下来。 我为巴克哭了一下，因为他待我太好了。 现在天已经黑了。我没有走近那所房子，而是穿过树林，向沼泽地走去。 我的天啊，可我吓坏了！我大喊一声。 旁边一个声音说：

"Is that you?" It was Jim's voice—nothing ever sounded so good before. I ran along the bank and got aboard our raft. Jim was so glad to see me that he grabbed me and hugged me. Then he said: "Bless you, child, I was sure you were dead again. The slaves came earlier and they thought you had been shot. I'm so glad to get you back again." "All right, that's mighty good. They won't find me. They'll think I've been killed and floated down the river. Don't lose time, Jim. Just shove off for the big water as fast as you can." I was powerfully glad to get away from the fighting and so was Jim to get away from the swamp. We said there was no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft doesn't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

“是你吗？”那是吉姆的声音，以前从来没有什么声音听起来这么好听。 我沿着河岸跑上了我们的木筏。 吉姆见到我很高兴，他抓住我，拥抱我。 然后他说：“上帝保佑你，孩子，我还以为你又死了呢。 奴隶们早来了，他们以为你被枪杀了。 我很高兴你又回来了。” “好吧，那太好了。 他们不会找到我的。他们会以为我被杀了，顺流而下了。 别浪费时间了，吉姆。你就尽可能快地向大水域划去吧。” 我很高兴能远离战火，吉姆也很高兴能离开沼泽。 我们说过，毕竟没有比木筏更好的家了。 其他地方看起来确实很拥挤，很憋闷，但木筏却不是。 在木筏上，你会感到无比的自由、轻松和舒适。