14 We All Learn About Halloween

In Which We All Learn About Halloween October 28 I have been up and down the mountain every day for a week, watching to see if walnuts and hickory nuts are ripe. Today I found the squirrels all over the trees, harvesting them furiously, and so I have decided that ripe or not, I must gather them. It's me or the squirrels. I tethered Frightful in the hickory tree while I went to the walnut tree and filled pouches. Frightful protected the hickory nuts. She keeps the squirrels so busy scolding her that they don't have time to take the nuts. They are quite terrified by her. It is a good scheme. I shout and bang the tree and keep them away while I gather.

这一章我们来认识万圣节 10月28日 这一周我天天上山下山，查看核桃和山胡桃有没有成熟。 今天我发现满树都是松鼠，正起劲地采摘坚果，所以我决定，不管熟没熟，我都必须去收了。 要么归我，要么归松鼠。 我把福莱特拴在山胡桃树上，自己去核桃树摘果，把袋子都装满了。 福莱特帮我看守山胡桃。 它弄得松鼠们忙着骂它，根本没空摘坚果。 它们可害怕福莱特了。 这真是个好办法。 我摘坚果的时候大喊着撞树，把松鼠都赶跑。

I have never seen so many squirrels. They hang from the slender branches, they bounce through the limbs, they seem to come from the whole forest. They must pass messages along to each other– messages that tell what kind of nuts and where the trees are. A few days later, my storehouse rolling with nuts, I began the race for apples. Entering this race were squirrels, raccoons, and a fat old skunk who looked as if he could eat not another bite. He was ready to sleep his autumn meal off, and I resented him because he did not need my apples. However, I did not toy with him. I gathered what apples I could, cut some in slices, and dried them on the boulder in the sun. Some I put in the storeroom tree to eat right away. They were a little wormy, but it was wonderful to eat an apple again.

我从来没见过这么多松鼠。 它们挂在细细的枝条上，在树杈间蹦来跳去，好像整片森林的松鼠都来了。 它们肯定互相传递消息，告诉彼此哪里有什么坚果。 几天后，我的仓库堆满了坚果，我又开始抢收苹果。 来抢苹果的有松鼠、浣熊，还有一只胖乎乎的老臭鼬，它胖得好像再吃一口就撑不下了。 它吃完这顿秋粮就要冬眠了，我很讨厌它，因为它根本没必要抢我的苹果。 不过，我可没去招惹它。 我摘了能摘的所有苹果，切了几片放在大石头上晒干。 还有一些放在树仓里，打算马上吃。 苹果虽然有点生虫，能再次吃到苹果可太棒了。

Then one night this was all done, the crop was gathered. I sat down to make a few notes when The Baron Came sprinting into sight. He actually bounced up and licked the edges of my turtle-shell bowl, stormed Frightful, and came to my feet. "Baron Weasel," I said. "It is nearing Halloween. Are you playing tricks or treats?" I handed him the remains of my turtle soup dinner and, fascinated, watched him devour it. Note: The Baron chews with his back molars, and chews with a ferocity I have not seen in him before. His eyes gleam, the lips curl back from his white pointed teeth, and he frowns like an angry man, If I move towards him, a rumble starts in his chest that keeps me back. He flashes glances at me. It is indeed strange

后来有天晚上，所有农活都做完了，收成也收好了。 我坐下来写记录，鼬男爵突然飞奔着出现在我眼前。 它蹦过来舔了舔我的龟壳碗边，闹了闹福莱特，就跑到了我的脚边。 "鼬男爵，"我说。 "马上就到万圣节了。 你是要恶作剧还是要讨糖吃呀？" 我把吃剩的龟肉汤给它，入迷地看着它狼吞虎咽吃光。 记录：鼬男爵用后臼齿咀嚼，那凶猛的样子我以前从没在它身上见过。 它眼睛发亮，嘴唇翻起露出尖尖的白牙，皱着眉像个生气的人，我一靠近，它胸口就发出隆隆的低吼声，把我挡回去。 它时不时瞟我一眼。 这真的太奇怪了

to be looked in the eye by this fearless wild animal. There is something human about his beady glance. Perhaps because that glance tells me something. It tells me he knows who I am and that he does not want me to come any closer. The Baron Weasel departed after his feast. Frightful, who was drawn up as skinny as a stick, relaxed and fluffed her feathers, and then I said to her, "See, he got his treats. No tricks." Then something occurred to me. I reached inside the door and pulled out my calendar stick. I counted 28, 29, 30, 31. "Frightful, that old weasel knows. It is Halloween. Let's have a Halloween party." Swiftly I made piles of cracked nuts, smoked rabbit, and crayfish. I even added two of my apples. This food was an invitation to the squirrels, foxes, raccoons, opossums, even

被这只无畏的野生动物直直盯着眼睛看。 它黑溜溜的眼神里，居然带着点人的气息。 也许那眼神确实在告诉我什么。 它在说它知道我是谁，不想让我再靠近一步。 鼬男爵吃饱后就离开了。 本来绷得像细棍子一样的福莱特，放松下来抖开了羽毛，我对它说："你看，它拿到好吃的了。 没搞恶作剧。" 这时候我突然想到一件事。 我伸手从树屋门后拿出我的记日木棍。 我数了数：28、29、30、31。 "福莱特，那只老鼬知道的。 今天就是万圣节。 我们办个万圣节派对吧。" 我很快摆好了一堆堆敲开的坚果、熏兔肉和小龙虾。 我还额外加了两个我的苹果。 这些食物就是请柬，邀请松鼠、狐狸、浣熊、负鼠，甚至

the birds that lived around me to come have a party. When Frightful is tethered to her stump, some of the animals and birds will only come close enough to scream at her. So bird and I went inside the tree, propped open the flap, and waited. Not much happened that night. I learned that it takes a little time for the woodland messages to get around. But they do. Before the party I had been very careful about leaving food out because I needed every mouthful. I took the precaution of rolling a stone in front of my store tree. The harvest moon rose, Frightful and I went to sleep. At dawn, we abandoned the party. I left the treats out, however. Since it was a snappy gold-coloured day. we went off to get some more rabbit skins to finish my winter underwear.

住在我周围的鸟儿都来参加派对。 要是福莱特拴在树桩上，那些鸟兽只会靠近到够冲它喊叫的距离，不敢过来。 所以我和福莱特就待在树屋里，撑开洞门等着。 那天晚上没发生什么事。 我才明白，林子里传消息也需要一点时间。 但消息终归会传开的。 办派对之前，我可舍不得把食物放在外面，每一口我都缺不了。 我还特意滚了一块石头挡在存粮树的洞口。 丰收月升起来了，我和福莱特就睡着了。 天亮的时候，我们不等派对了。 不过我还是把好吃的留在了外面。 那天天气清爽，到处金灿灿的。 我们出门去多打几只兔子，攒兔皮做完我的冬季内衣。

We had lunch along the creek– stewed mussels and wild potatoes. We didn't get back until dusk because I discovered some wild rice in an ox bow of the stream. There was no more than a handful. Home that night, everything seemed peaceful enough. A few nuts were gone, to the squirrels, I thought. I baked a fish in leaves, and ate a small, precious amount of wild rice. It was marvellous! As I settled down to scrape the rabbit skins of the day, my neighbour the skunk marched right into the camp ground and set to work on the smoked rabbit. I made some Halloween notes:

我们在小河边吃午饭，吃的是炖贻贝和野土豆。 我们直到黄昏才回去，因为我在河道的牛轭湾发现了一些野生稻。 总共也才不过一把。 那天晚上回到家，一切都看起来安安静静的。 少了几颗坚果，我以为是松鼠拿走了。 我用树叶烤了一条鱼，还吃了一点珍贵的野米。 味道好极了！ 我坐下来处理今天刚剥的兔皮，我的邻居臭鼬径直走进营地，埋头大吃我的熏兔肉。 我记下了这些关于万圣节的内容：