6 SUSIE’S LITTLE TRICK

CHAPTER SIX SUSIE'S LITTLE TRICK JACK WAS pleased when he heard Susie asking for Jeff to come to tea on Tuesday. 'That just proves it!' he said to himself. 'They will slip off to Tigger's Barn together. Peter was quite wrong! Let me see. Tuesday is the evening Mother goes to a Committee Meeting, so Susie and Jeff can go off without anyone bothering. And so can I! Aha! George and I will be on their track all right.' Jack told George, who agreed that it did look as if there really was something in all that had been said at the meeting of the Famous Five.

第六章苏茜的小诡计当杰克听到苏茜邀请杰夫星期二来喝茶时，他很高兴。 “这恰恰证明了这一点！”他自言自语道。 “他们会一起溜到跳跳虎的谷仓。 彼得完全错了！让我看看。 星期二晚上妈妈要去参加一个委员会会议，所以苏茜和杰夫可以走开，不会有人打扰。 我也可以！啊哈!乔治和我一定会跟踪他们的。”杰克告诉乔治，乔治也认为在“五人组”的会议上所说的一切似乎都是有道理的。

'We'll keep a sharp eye on Susie and Jeff, and follow them at once,' said George. 'They'll be most annoyed to find we are with them in Tigger's Barn! We'd better take a torch, Jack. It will be dark.' 'Not awfully dark,' said Jack. 'There will be a moon. But it might be cloudy so we certainly will take a torch.' Susie told Jeff, with many giggles, that Jack had asked George to tea on Tuesday. 'So I've asked for you to come too,' she said. 'And after tea, Jeff, you and I will slip out secretly, and make Jack and George think we are off to Tigger's Barn, but really and truly we will only be hiding somewhere, and we'll go back and play as soon as we are certain Jack and George have gone off to try and follow us to Tigger's Barn! Oh dear, they'll go all the way there, and won't find a thing, except a horrid old tumbledown house!' 'It will serve them right, said Jeff, All I can

“我们会密切注意苏茜和杰夫，马上跟着他们。”乔治说。 “他们要是发现我们和他们一起在跳跳虎的谷仓里，一定会生气的！”我们最好带个手电筒，杰克。 天要黑了。“不算太黑，”杰克说。 “会有月亮的。不过天气可能多云，所以我们肯定会带上手电筒。”苏茜咯咯地笑着告诉杰夫，杰克星期二请乔治去喝茶了。 “所以我请你也来，”她说。 “喝完茶，杰夫，你和我偷偷溜出去，让杰克和乔治以为我们要去跳跳虎的谷仓，但实际上我们只是躲在某个地方，等我们确定杰克和乔治已经出去了，想跟着我们去跳跳虎的谷仓，我们就回去玩！”哦，天哪，他们会一直走到那里，除了一幢可怕的、摇摇晃晃的老房子外，什么也找不到！“这是他们活该，”杰夫说，“尽我所能。

say is that I'm very glad I'm not going off to that lonely place at night.' Tuesday afternoon came, and with it came Jeff and George after school, on their way to tea with Jack and Susie. The two boys walked with Jack, who pretended to be astonished that Jeff should go to tea with Susie. 'Going to play with her dolls?' he asked. 'Or perhaps you're going to spring-clean the dolls' house?' Jeff went red. 'Don't be stupid,' he said. 'I've got my new railway set with me. We're going to play with that.' 'But it takes ages to set out on the floor,' said Jack, surprised. 'Well, what of it?' said Jeff, scowling. Then he remembered that Jack and George thought that he and Susie were going off to Tigger's Barn, and would naturally imagine that he wouldn't have time to play such a lengthy game as trains. He grinned to himself. Let Jack

我要说的是，我很高兴不用在夜里到那个偏僻的地方去。”星期二下午来了，放学后的杰夫和乔治也来了，他们正和杰克和苏茜一起去喝茶。 两个男孩和杰克一起走着，杰克假装很惊讶杰夫竟然和苏茜一起去喝茶。 “要去玩她的洋娃娃吗？”他问。 “或者你打算给娃娃们的房子大扫除？”杰夫脸红了。 “别犯傻了，”他说。 我带着我的新火车。 我们来玩一下。“但是在地板上出发要花很长时间。”杰克惊讶地说。 “那又怎么样？”杰夫皱着眉头说。 然后他想起杰克和乔治以为他和苏茜要去跳跳虎的谷仓，自然会想到他不会有时间玩火车这么长的游戏。 他暗自笑了。让杰克

be puzzled! It would do him good! They all had a very good tea, and then went to the playroom upstairs. Jeff began to set out his railway lines. Jack and George would have liked to help, but they were afraid that Susie might point out that Jeff was her guest, not theirs. Susie had a very sharp tongue when she liked! So they contented themselves with trying to make a rather complicated model aeroplane, keeping a sharp eye on Susie and Jeff all the time. Very soon Jack's mother put her head in at the door. 'Well, I'm off to my Committee Meeting,' she said. 'You must both go home at eight o'clock, Jeff and George– and Jack, if I'm not back in time for your supper, make yourselves something, and then go and have your baths.' 'Right, Mother,' said Jack. 'Come and say good night to us when you get back.'

是困惑!这对他有好处！他们都喝了一杯很好的茶，然后去了楼上的游戏室。 杰夫开始铺设他的铁路线。 杰克和乔治很想帮忙，但他们担心苏茜会指出杰夫是她的客人，不是他们的。 苏茜喜欢的时候说话非常尖刻！因此，他们满足于尝试制作一个相当复杂的飞机模型，并一直密切关注着苏茜和杰夫。 很快，杰克的妈妈从门口探出头来。 “好了，我要去参加委员会会议了，”她说。 “杰夫和乔治，你们必须在八点钟回家——还有杰克，如果我没能及时回来给你们吃晚饭，你们就自己做点什么，然后去洗澡。”“好的，妈妈，”杰克说。 “回来时过来跟我们道晚安。”

As soon as her mother had gone, Susie went all mysterious. She winked at Jeff, who winked back. Jack saw the winks, of course. They meant him to! He was on the alert at once. Ah, those two were probably going to slip out into the night! 'Jeff, come and see the new clock we've got downstairs,' said Susie. 'It has a little man who comes out at the top and strikes a hammer on an anvil to mark every quarter of an hour. It is nearly a quarter past seven, let's go and watch him come out.' 'Right,' said Jeff, and the two went out, nudging each other, and laughing. 'There they go,' said George. 'Do we follow them straightaway?' Jack went to the door. 'They've gone downstairs,' he said. 'They will get their coats out of the hall cupboard. We'll give them a minute to put them on, then we'll get ours. We shall hear the front door bang, I expect. It

妈妈一走，苏茜就变得神神秘秘的。 她朝杰夫眨了眨眼睛，杰夫也朝她眨了眨眼睛。 当然，杰克看到了她的眼色。 他们是故意的！他立刻警觉起来。 啊，那两个人可能要溜到夜里去了！“杰夫，过来看看我们在楼下新买的钟，”苏西说。 “它上面有一个小人，每隔一刻钟就从上面出来，用锤子敲铁砧做标记。 现在快七点一刻了，我们去看他出来吧。“好吧，”杰夫说，两人走了出去，互相推了推，笑了起来。 “他们走了。”乔治说。 “我们要直接跟着他们走吗？”杰克走到门口。 “他们下楼去了，”他说。 “他们会从门厅的橱柜里拿出他们的外套。 我们给他们一分钟时间穿上，然后我们就穿上我们的。 我想我们会听到前门砰的一声关上。 它

won't take us a minute to follow them.' In about a minute they heard the front door being opened, and then it shut rather quietly, as if it was not really meant to be heard. 'Did you hear that?' asked Jack. 'They shut it very quietly. Come on, we'll pull on our coats and follow. We don't want to track them too closely, or they'll see us. We will certainly surprise them when they get to Tigger's Barn, though!' They put on their coats, and opened the front door. It was fairly light outside because of the rising moon. They took a torch with them, in case the clouds became thick. There was no sign of Jeff and Susie. 'They have gone at top speed, I should think!' said Jack, closing the door behind him. 'Come on, we know the way to Tigger's Barn, even if we don't spot Jeff and Susie in front of us.' They went down the garden path. They did

我们不用花一分钟就能跟着他们。”大约过了一分钟，他们听到前门被打开了，然后又轻轻地关上了，好像根本不想让人听见似的。 “你听到了吗？”杰克问。 他们轻轻地关上了门。 来吧，我们穿上外套跟在后面。 我们不能太靠近他们，否则他们会看到我们的。 不过，等他们到了跳跳虎的谷仓，我们一定会给他们一个惊喜的！”他们穿上外套，打开前门。 由于月亮正在升起，外面相当亮。 他们随身带了一支火把，以防乌云密布。 没有杰夫和苏茜的踪迹。 “我想他们已经以最快的速度走了！”杰克说着随手关上了门。 “来吧，我们知道去跳跳虎谷仓的路，即使我们看不到前面的杰夫和苏茜。”他们沿着花园小径走去。 他们做了