I laid him out in a second with a stick, and Jim grabbed pap’s whisky-jug and begun to pour it down.
He was barefooted, and the snake bit him right on the heel. That all comes of my being such a fool as to not remember that wherever you leave a dead snake its mate always comes there and curls around it. Jim told me to chop off the snake’s head and throw it away, and then skin the body and roast a piece of it. I done it, (查看原文)
Jim said he reckoned the widow was partly right and pap was partly right; so the best way would be for us to pick out two or three things from the list and say we wouldn’t borrow them any more—then he reckoned it wouldn’t be no harm to borrow the others. So we talked it over all one night, drifting along down the river, trying to make up our minds whether to drop the watermelons, or the cantelopes, or the mushmelons, or what. (查看原文)
I set down one time back in the woods, and had a long think about it. I say to myself, if a body can get anything they prey for, why don't Deacon Winn get back the money he lost on pork? Why can't the get back her silver snuff-box that was stole? Why can't Miss Watson fat up? No, says I to myself, there ain't nothing in it. (查看原文)
The sky looks ever so deep when you lad down on your back in the moonshine; I never knew it before. And how far a body can hear on water such nights! I heard people taking at the ferry-landing. I heard waht they said ,evert word of it. (查看原文)
It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger; but I done it, and I wasn't ever sorry for it afterward, neither. (查看原文)
“Oh, come to the mourners' bench! come, black with sin! come, sick and sore! come, lame and halt and blind! come, pore and needy, sunk in shame! come, all that's worn and soiled and suffering!——come with a broken spirit! come with a contrite heart! come in your rags and sin and dirt! the waters that cleanse is free, the door of heaven stands open —— oh, enter in and be at rest!” (查看原文)
Sometimes we'd have that whole river all to ourselves for the longest time. Yonder was the banks and islands, across the water; and maybe a spark——which was a candle in a cabin window; and sometimes on the water you could see a spark or two—— on a raft or a scow, you konw; and maybe you could hear a fiddle or a song coming over from one of them crafts. (查看原文)
Next we slid into the river and had a swim, so as to freshen up and cool off; then we set down on the sandy bottom where the water was about knee deep, and watched the daylight come. Not a sound anywheres – perfectly still – just like the whole world was asleep, only sometimes the bullfrogs a-cluttering, maybe. The first thing to see, looking away over the water, was a kind of dull line – that was the woods on t’other side; you couldn’t make nothing else out; then a pale place in the sky; then more paleness spreading around; then the river softened up away off, and warn’t black any more, but gray; you could see little dark spots drifting along ever so far away – trading scows, and such things; and long black streaks – rafts; sometimes you could hear a sweep screaking; or jumbled up voices,... (查看原文)
Then he says, slow and scornful:
然后他发话了，说得慢慢吞吞，极尽挖苦。
“The idea of YOU lynching anybody! It’s amusing. The idea of you thinking you had pluck enough to lynch a MAN! Because you’re brave enough to tar and feather poor friendless cast-out women that come along here, did that make you think you had grit enough to lay your hands on a MAN? Why, a MAN’S safe in the hands of ten thousand of your kind – as long as it’s daytime and you’re not behind him.
“你们居然还想到了要把什么人处以私刑！这真够有趣了。居然想到你们还胆敢给一个男子汉大丈夫处以私刑！难道只因为你们敢于给一些不幸的无人顾怜的投奔到此而被逐出家门的妇女涂上沥青，粘上鸡毛，你们便自以为有那个胆量，敢于在一个男子汉大丈夫的头上动手动脚？哈，只要是大白天，只要你们不是躲在人家的身背后——在成千上万你们这一号的人手里，一个男子汉大丈夫准包会太太平平、安然无恙的。
“Do I know you? I know you clear through was born and raised in the South, and I’ve lived in the North; so I know the average all around. The average man’s a cow... (查看原文)
You do that when you've lost a horseshoe that you've found, instead of nailing it up over the door, but I hadn’t ever heard anybody say it was any way to keep off bad luck when you’d killed a spider. (查看原文)
