14 The flying of the fur

CHAPTER FOURTEEN The flying of the fur It was at times like this that Nancy really wished she still had a mobile phone. 'Stupid eagle,' she muttered to herself, remembering how Pamela had stolen it. 'Listen, everyone,' she said. 'I think I know where we are. And if we can get out of this room, we can get out of Twinklenuts.' Everyone said, 'OOOOOOOH.' 'Are you sure?' asked Crusty McTavish. Nancy nodded. 'Trust me,' she said. 'But I'm gonna need your help.' Monty, Jeremy, Jeremy and Jeremy stood to attention. 'Nancy, as you know, we have behaved like total and utter rotters,' said Monty. 'Especially to Wiggy. Any pal of his is a pal of ours. How can we help?' Nancy snarled. 'Yeah, you've been horrible to him. But you can tell him that yourselves once we get to Grimwood. Now, get me up to that hatch on the ceiling.'

在这种时候，南希真希望她还有一部手机。 “笨鹰，”她自言自语道，想起了帕梅拉是怎么偷走它的。 “大家听着，”她说。 “我想我知道我们在哪儿了。 如果我们能离开这个房间，我们就能离开Twinklenuts。”每个人都说：“哦哦哦。”“你确定吗？”克鲁斯蒂·麦克塔维什问。 南希点了点头。“相信我，”她说。 但我需要你的帮助蒙蒂、杰里米、杰里米和杰里米立正站着。 “南希，你知道，我们的行为就像彻头彻尾的叛徒。”蒙蒂说。 “尤其是对威吉。他的朋友就是我们的朋友。 我们能帮什么忙？”南希咆哮。 “是啊，你对他太恶劣了。 但等我们到了格里姆伍德，你们可以自己告诉他。 现在，把我带到天花板上的那个舱口上去。”

Everyone looked up at the hatch. She pointed at the badgers. 'You lot. Get on each other's shoulders.' The badgers gingerly climbed on top of each other, creating a wobbly badger tower. Everyone gasped as Nancy bravely clawed her way up them, occasionally squishing a snout or elbowing a tummy.

每个人都抬头看着舱口。 她指着那些獾。 “你很多。坐在彼此的肩膀上。”獾们小心翼翼地爬到彼此的身上，形成了一个摇摇欲坠的獾塔。 每个人都倒吸了一口气，因为南希勇敢地用爪子从他们中间爬了出来，偶尔会压扁一个鼻子，或者用肘撞一个肚子。

'N… n… now what?' shouted up Monty, who was standing at the very bottom, huffing and puffing under the weight of his three brothers and Nancy. 'Now… we wait,' said Nancy. 'Oh cripes,' said Monty. The badgers swayed from side to side. 'Keep still down there!' barked Nancy. 'Yes, Mummy,' whimpered Monty. They waited. And waited. And waited. Then they heard a noise. The hatch was being opened. Quick as a flash, Nancy pounced. With one paw she grabbed the edge of the hatch door. It was being opened by a rat in uniform, who just about managed to say 'Oh!' before Nancy grabbed him so that he dangled from her paw. She glanced up at the room above her and took a sniff. Just as she thought. They were somewhere deep in the Twinklenuts library. The rat was twisting around in the air. 'Let me go!' it squeaked angrily. 'All right then,' said Nancy, and she dropped the rat onto the prison-cell floor with a thud. 'Come on,' she said to the prisoners. 'We can't wait here all day. Start climbing up and make it snappy.' The prisoners began to clamber up the ladder of badgers, before reaching Nancy at the very top. Crusty McTavish and

“不……不……现在怎么办？”蒙蒂喊道，他正站在最底层，被他的三个兄弟和南希压得喘不过气来。 “现在……我们等着，”南希说。 “哦，天哪，”蒙蒂说。獾左右摇摆。 “在下面别动！”南希吼道。 “是的，妈妈。”蒙蒂呜咽着说。 他们等待着。等着。等着。 然后他们听到一个声音。舱门被打开了。 南希像闪电一样迅速扑了上来。 她用一只爪子抓住舱门的边缘。 打开门的是一只穿制服的老鼠，它差点儿就叫了一声“哦！南希一把抓住它，把它吊在她的爪子上。 她抬头看了看上面的房间，闻了闻。 正如她所想的。他们在Twinklenuts图书馆深处的某个地方。 老鼠在空中盘旋。 “放开我!”它愤怒地尖叫着。 “那好吧，”南希说着，砰的一声把老鼠扔到牢房的地板上。 “走吧，”她对囚犯们说。 “我们不能在这儿等一整天。 开始往上爬，快一点。”囚犯们开始顺着獾的梯子往上爬，最后到达了南希的顶端。 脆皮麦克塔维什和

some of the older animals were carried up first. 'Holy mackerel!' said Crusty, blinking in the light. 'You did it, Nancy! What a brave and clever fox you are.' Soon there was a crowd of scruffy, smelly creatures huddled beside the hatch opening. Mo found a tatty old curtain in the library and tore it into strips. Then she tied the strips together into a long rope and hurled it down the hole. 'Here you go,' she shouted. And they hauled Monty, Jeremy, Jeremy, Jeremy and Nancy out of the secret room. 'What about me?' squeaked the rat. 'I'm really sorry! I promise I was only following orders!' Nancy just harrumphed and shut the hatch door. 'If anyone sees us walking out of this library, we're done for,' said Mo. Nancy shook her head. 'There's a secret escape route and it'll take us all the way to Grimwood. Where's the main library room? You know, the one with all the chairs and tables and that?' Crusty McTavish scratched at his ear. 'I think it's down there,' he said. The animals shuffled down the corridor. Nancy noticed a closed door that said 'Map Room'. 'Hmm,' she said to herself. 'Hang on a minute, guys,' she called. 'I want to quickly look in here.' She jiggled the doorknob, but it came off in her paw. 'No probs, Nance!' boomed Monty. 'Stand back, would you?' And he ran straight into the door, bashing it open with his big badger head.

一些年长的动物先被抬了上去。 “好家伙!皮糠说，在灯光下眨着眼睛。 “你做到了，南希！”你是一只多么勇敢和聪明的狐狸啊！”不一会儿，在舱口旁边挤来了一群脏兮兮、臭烘烘的家伙。 莫在图书馆找到了一块破旧的窗帘，把它撕成了条。 然后她把绳子绑在一起，扔进洞里。 “给你，”她喊道。 他们把蒙蒂、杰里米、杰里米、杰里米和南希拖出了密室。 “那我呢？”老鼠尖声叫道。 “我真的很抱歉！我保证我只是奉命行事！”南希只是哼了一声，关上了舱门。 “如果有人看到我们走出图书馆，我们就完了，”莫说。 南希摇了摇头。“有一条秘密的逃生路线，它会把我们一直带到格里姆伍德。 主图书馆在哪里？ 你知道，就是那个有很多桌椅之类的地方。”硬皮麦克塔维什搔搔他的耳朵。 他说，我想就在下面。 动物们慢吞吞地走过走廊。 南希注意到一扇关着的门上写着“地图室”。 “嗯，”她自言自语道。 “等一下，伙计们，”她喊道。 “我想快速地看看这里。”她摇了摇门把手，但门把手掉在了她的爪子里。 “没有问题，南希！”蒙蒂大声说。 “往后站，好吗？”他径直冲进门，用他的大獾头把门撞开。

By the time Pamela flew back to the treebonk stadium, Frank had managed to revive most of the Grimwood team. 'Buck up!' he shouted. 'We can still win. You just have to BELIEVE! Do you believe?' 'YEAH!' shouted back the squirrels. 'We can still do the Whirligig without Nancy, OK? Let's play the best treebonk we've ever played,' said Frank. 'Do it for Titus! Do it for our home! But most of all… do it for yourselves.' Titus honked into a handkerchief. 'I'm so glad Frank has been coming over for regular movie nights,' he sniffled. 'He's so much better at giving speeches now.'

当帕梅拉飞回树树体育场时，弗兰克已经设法使格里姆伍德队的大部分队员苏醒过来。 “振作起来!他喊道。“我们仍然可以赢。 你只需要相信！你相信吗？“是啊!松鼠们喊道。 “没有南希，我们还是可以做旋转舞的，好吗？” “我们来玩我们玩过的最棒的树树游戏吧。”弗兰克说。 “为提多这样做吧！”为了我们的家！但最重要的是……为你们自己。”提图斯对着手帕按喇叭。 “我很高兴弗兰克能来这里看电影，”他抽泣着说。 “他现在演讲好多了。”

Ted ran over to his friends. 'Pamela said she couldn't see Nancy anywhere,' he said. 'I don't understand it. There's no WAY she'd miss this match.' 'I agree,' said Wiggy. 'She must be in trouble. Come on.' Wiggy stood up and put his arm around Ted. 'Let's start looking for her while the others watch the match. Might be easier while the forest is quiet.' 'I love you, Wiggy,' said Ted, burying his face into Wiggy's chest for a moment. Then they ran into the forest. The Grimwood team huddled together for a last-minute team talk, thumping their tails on the ground. 'Go-go-go GRIMWOOD!' hooted Sharon the Party Crow, and the crowd cheered. All of Bunnyville jumped up and down at once, which felt like a small earthquake. And a stoat called Beryl waved a giant foam paw in the air, like she just didn't care. The Twinklenuts team were finally outside too, their uniform shiny and perfect, their glossy fur rippling in the wind. Unlike Grimwood, they were completely still and silent. 'They mean business,' said Willow, slurping on a slushie the size of her head. The Twinklenuts cheerleaders– a group of white mice with pink noses and matching tutus– pranced onto the pitch and did an extremely complicated dance routine involving fire- breathing, juggling and roller-skating.

泰德跑向他的朋友们。 “帕梅拉说她哪儿也见不到南希，”他说。 “我不明白。她不可能错过这场比赛。“我同意。”威格说。 “她一定有麻烦了。来吧。”威吉站起来，用胳膊搂住了泰德。 “让我们在其他人看比赛的时候开始找她吧。 森林安静的时候可能更容易。“我爱你，威吉。”泰德说着，把脸埋在威吉的胸膛里。 然后他们跑进了森林。 格里姆伍德的队员们聚在一起进行最后的集体谈话，尾巴在地上砰砰作响。 “有时GRIMWOOD !派对乌鸦沙伦喊道，人群欢呼起来。 邦尼维尔的所有人都立刻跳了起来，感觉就像一场小地震。 一只名叫贝丽尔的白鼬在空中挥舞着一个巨大的泡沫爪子，好像她根本不在乎。 Twinklenuts团队终于也出来了，他们的制服闪闪发光，完美无瑕，光滑的皮毛在风中飘动。 与格里姆伍德不同的是，他们完全安静无声。 “他们是认真的。”威洛说着，啜着一块和她脑袋一样大的冰沙。 Twinklenuts啦啦队是一群长着粉色鼻子、穿着相配的芭蕾舞裙的小白鼠，他们跳上了球场，表演了一段极其复杂的舞蹈，包括喷火、杂耍和轮滑。