15 I Find Out What to Do With Hunters

In Which I Find Out What to Do With Hunters That party had a moral ending. Don't feed wild animals! I picked up and counted my walnuts and hickory nuts. I was glad to discover there was more mess than loss. I decided that I would not only live until spring but that I still had more nuts than all the squirrels on Gribley's (including flying squirrels). In early November I was awakened one morning by a shot from a rifle. The hunting season had begun! I had forgotten all about that. To hide from a swarm of hunters was truly going to be a trick. They would he behind every tree and on every hill and dale. They would be shooting at everything that

本章我来讲讲该怎么对付猎人，那场派对给了我一个教训 不要喂野生动物！ 我捡好核桃和山核桃，数了一遍 我很高兴地发现，只是弄乱了，没丢多少东西 我确定我不仅能活到春天，而且我的坚果比格里布利所有松鼠（包括飞鼠）都多 十一月初的一个早晨，一声步枪枪响吵醒了我 狩猎季开始啦！ 我早就把这件事忘得一干二净 要躲开一大群猎人，可真得动点脑筋 他们会藏在每一棵树后，每一处丘陵山谷里 他们会朝一切会

moved, and here was I in deerskin pants and dirty brown sweater, looking like a deer. I decided, like the animals, to stay holed up the first day of the season. I whittled a fork and finished my rabbit-skin winter underwear. I cracked a lot of walnuts. The second day of the hunting season I stuck my head out of my door and decided my yard was messy. I pithed it up so that it looked like a forest floor. The third day of the hunting season some men came in and camped by the gorge. I tried to steal down the other side of the mountain to the north stream, found another camp of hunters there, and went back to my tree. By the end of the week both Frightful and I were in need of exercise. Gun shots were still snapping around the mountain. I decided to

动的东西开枪，我穿着鹿皮裤和脏棕毛衣，看起来活像一头鹿 我打定主意，要像其他动物一样，狩猎季第一天就乖乖躲起来 我削了一把叉子，做完了我的兔皮冬季内衣 我砸开了好多核桃 狩猎季第二天，我探出门张望，发现我的院子乱糟糟的 我把院子整理好，让它看起来就和普通森林地表没两样 狩猎季第三天，有几个男人来到山里，在峡谷边扎营了 我想偷偷绕到山的另一边去北边的小溪，结果那边也有猎人营地，只好又回我的树屋了 到这一周结束，我和惊风都迫切需要活动活动 枪声还在山周围断断续续地响着 我决定

go see Miss Turner at the library. About an hour later I wrote this: I got as far as the edge of the hemlock grove when a shot went off practically at my elbow. I didn't have Frightful's jesses in my hand and she took off at the blast. I climbed a tree. There was a hunter so dose to me he could have bitten me, but apparently he was busy watching his deer. I was able to get up into the high branches without being seen. First, I looked around for Frightful. I could see her nowhere. I wanted to whistle for her but didn't think I should. I sat still and looked and wondered if she'd go home. I watched the hunter track his deer. The deer was still running. From where I was I could see it plainly, going towards the old Gribley farm site. Quietly I climbed higher and watched. Then of all things, it jumped the stone fence and fell dead.

去图书馆找特纳小姐 大约一小时后我记下这件事：我刚走到铁杉林边缘，一发子弹几乎就在我胳膊肘旁炸开 我手里没抓着惊风的脚带，它听到枪响一下子飞跑了 我爬上了一棵树 有个猎人离我特别近，近得都能碰到我，但他显然只顾着盯他的鹿 我成功爬上高处的树枝，没被他发现 首先，我四处找惊风 我哪儿都找不到它 我想吹哨叫它，但觉得不能这么做 我一动不动坐着张望，心想它会不会自己回家 我看着猎人追踪他打的鹿 那只鹿还在跑 从我站的地方我看得清清楚楚，它正往老格里布利农场的方向跑 我安安静静爬得更高，盯着那边看 结果那鹿越过石围栏之后，一头栽倒死了

I thought I would stay in the tree until the hunter quartered his kill and dragged it out to the road. Ah, then, it occurred to me that he wasn't even going to find that deer. He was going off at an angle, and from what I could see, the deer had dropped in a big bank of dry ferns and would be hard to find. It got to be nerve-racking at this point. I could see my new jacket lying in the ferns, and the hunter looking for it. I closed my eyes and mentally steered him to the left. Then, good old Frightful! She had winged down the mountain and was sitting in a sapling maple away from the deer. She saw the man and screamed. He looked in her direction; heaven knows what he thought she was, but he turned and started towards her. She rustled her wings, climbed into the sky, and disappeared over my head. I did want to whistle to her, but feared for my deer myself, and her.

我心想我就待在树上，等猎人把鹿切块拖去路边再走 哎，这时候我突然想到，他根本找不到那只鹿 他走偏了方向，而且据我所见，鹿掉进了一大片干蕨丛里，很难被发现 到这个地步，我真是紧张得不行 我能看见那只鹿就躺在蕨丛里，猎人就在附近找来找去 我闭上眼睛，心里默念让他往左走 然后，我的好惊风！ 它早就飞到山下，正落在一棵小枫树上，离鹿远远的 它看见那个男人，叫了起来 男人朝它那边看，天晓得他以为那是什么，不过他转身朝惊风走过去了 惊风扑棱了两下翅膀，飞上天空，从我头顶飞过去不见了 我真想吹哨喊它，但既怕暴露了鹿，也怕害了它

I hung in the tree and waited about a half an hour. Finally the man gave up his hunt. His friends called, and he went on down the mountain. I went down the tree. In the dry ferns lay a nice young buck. I covered it carefully with some of the stones from the fence, and more ferns, and rushed home. I whistled, and down from the top of my own hemlock came Frightful. I got a piece of birch bark to write all this on so I wouldn't get too anxious and go for the deer too soon. We will wait until dark to go get our dinner and my new jacket. I am beginning to think I'll have all the deer hide and venison I can use. There must be other lost game on this mountain. I got the deer after dark, and I was quite right. Before the season was over I got two more deer in the same way. However, with

我在树上等着，大概等了半小时 最后，那个男人放弃找鹿了 他的朋友喊他，他就下山去了 我从树上爬下来 干蕨丛里躺着一只漂亮的年轻公鹿 我小心用围栏上的石头和更多蕨菜把它盖好，就急急忙忙赶回家 我吹了声口哨，惊风就从我那棵铁杉顶上飞下来了 我拿了一块桦树皮把这件事记下来，免得我太着急，太早去取鹿 我们要等到天黑再去取我们的晚餐和我的新外套 我开始觉得，我能得到所有想要的鹿皮和鹿肉了 这座山上肯定还有其他被弄丢的猎物 天黑之后我把鹿取回来了，果然和我想的一样 狩猎季结束前，我用同样的方法又得到了两只鹿 不过，有了

the first deer to work on, the rest of the season passed quickly. I had lots of scraping and preparing to do. My complaint was that I did not dare light a fire and cook that wonderful meat. I was afraid of being spotted. I ate smoked venison, nut meats, and hawthorn berries. Hawthorn berries taste a little bit like apples. They are smaller and drier than apples. They also have big seeds in them. The hawthorn bush is easy to tell because it has big red shiny thorns on it. Each day the shooting lessened as the hunters left the hills and went home. As they cleared out, Frightful and I were freer and freer to roam. The air temperature now was cold enough to preserve the venison, so I didn't smoke the last two deer, and about two weeks after I heard that first alarming shot, I cut off a beautiful steak, built a bright fire, and when the embers were glowing, I had myself a real dinner. I soaked some dried puffballs in water,

第一只鹿可以忙活，剩下的狩猎季过得飞快 我有好多刮皮处理的活要做 让我犯难的是，我不敢生火烤这么棒的肉 我怕被猎人发现 我只好吃熏鹿肉、坚果仁和山楂果 山楂果吃起来有点像苹果 它们比苹果更小，也更干 果核还很大 山楂树很好认，因为它长着亮红的大尖刺 日子一天天过去，枪声越来越少，猎人都下山回家了 等猎人都走光了，我和惊风就能越来越自在地四处逛 现在气温已经够低，可以保存鹿肉，所以后面两只鹿我没熏，在听到第一声吓人的枪响大约两周后，我切了一块漂亮的牛排，生起旺火，等木炭烧红后，好好吃了一顿真正的大餐 我把一些干马勃泡在水里