002 倒霉的一天

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The next day, the Widow Douglas washed the mud off my clothes

第二天，道格拉斯寡妇洗掉了我衣服上的泥巴。

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She didn't scold me, but she looked so sad that I decided to try to be good for a while

她没有责骂我，但她看起来那么难过，于是我决定暂时努力做个好孩子。

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I called my father " Pap." No one had seen him for over a year

我管我父亲叫“帕普”。已经有一年多没人见过他了。

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That was fine with me. I didn't want to see Pap again because he beat me

这对我来说挺好的。我不想再见到帕普，因为他老是打我。

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Then some people in St. Petersburg told me that they'd found his body in the river

后来，圣彼得堡的一些人告诉我，他们在河里发现了他的尸体。

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They said the drowned man was just his size, with ragged clothes and long hair like Pap's

他们说那个溺水的人身材跟他一样，穿着破烂衣服，留着像帕普一样的长头发。

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But they really couldn't recognize the face because the body had been in the water for so long

但他们实在认不出那张脸，因为尸体在水里泡得太久了。

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They buried the drowned man on the riverbank

他们把那个溺水的人埋在了河岸上。

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A few days later, though, I thought of something

不过，几天后，我想到了什么。

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The townspeople told me they found the body floating on his back

镇上的人告诉我，他们发现尸体时，他是仰面漂在水上的。

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But I had once been told that drowned men floated on their faces and only drowned women floated on their backs

我曾听人说过，淹死的男人脸朝下浮着，只有淹死的女人才脸朝上浮着。

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So I decided the body must have been a woman, dressed up in men's clothes

所以我认定那具尸体一定是个女人，穿着男人的衣服。

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After that, I was worried that my father would come back someday

从那以后，我就担心父亲哪天会回来。

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I still played robbers sometimes with Tom and the other boys, but I was getting bored with it. It was all pretending

我有时还和汤姆还有别的男孩玩强盗游戏，但我渐渐觉得无聊了。那全是假装的。

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On Saturday Tom told us that we were going to ambush some rich merchants who had two hundred elephants

星期六那天，汤姆告诉我们，我们要去伏击一些富商，他们有二百头大象、

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six hundred camels, and a thousand mules loaded with diamonds

六百匹骆驼，还有一千头骡子，满载着钻石。

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But that was just a story he made up

但那只是他编的故事。

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Really we were just ambushing a Sunday school picnic

其实我们只是在伏击一个主日学校的野餐。

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We chased the children away, but only got their doughnuts and jam

我们把孩子们赶跑了，但只拿到了他们的甜甜圈和果酱。

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" I don't see any diamonds," I said to Tom

“我没看见什么钻石，”我对汤姆说。

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" Why, they're all right in front of you," Tom answered

“哎呀，它们不就在你眼前嘛。”汤姆回答。

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" And the elephants and camels too. Some magicians must have turned them into a Sunday school picnic before we got here."

“还有大象和骆驼也是。肯定是哪个魔法师在我们来之前把它们变成了主日学校的野餐。”

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Then Tom told me how magicians use genies to help them

接着汤姆告诉我魔法师是怎么使唤精灵帮忙的。

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" Let's get some genies to come and help us," I said

我说：“我们找些精灵来帮我们吧。”

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Tom explained that you have to rub a magic lamp to make a genie appear

汤姆解释说，得摩擦神灯才能让精灵现身。

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Then the genie will do whatever you want

然后精灵就会对你言听计从。

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A few days later I thought I would try it

过了几天，我想着试试看。

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I went out into the woods with an old lamp and I rubbed it and rubbed it, but nothing happened

我带着一盏旧灯走进树林，

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I think Tom really believed these things, but I didn't

我觉得汤姆是真信这些，但我不信。

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Several months passed, and winter came. I went to school

几个月过去，冬天来了。我上学去了。

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At first I hated it, but soon I could spell and read and write a little

一开始我很讨厌上学，但没过多久，我就能拼点单词，读点书，也会写几个字了。

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I could say the multiplication tables up to six times seven. Then, school became easier for me

我还能背乘法表，一直背到六乘七。从那以后，上学对我来说就轻松多了。

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I was also getting used to the Widow Douglas' house

我也慢慢习惯了道格拉斯寡妇家的生活。

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The widow told me that I was doing well. She said she wasn't ashamed of me

寡妇夸我做得不错，还说我不再让她觉得丢脸了。

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One morning at breakfast, I accidentally knocked over the salt shaker

有天早晨吃早饭的时候，我一不留神碰倒了盐瓶。

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It is very bad luck to spill salt

把盐弄撒可是非常不吉利的。

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So I reached for some of the salt to throw over my left shoulder because that's supposed to keep the bad luck away

我连忙伸手去捏点盐，想从左肩往后撒，据说这样能赶走厄运。

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But Miss Watson stopped me." Take your hands away, Huckleberry," she scolded." What a mess you are always making!"

可华珍小姐却拦住了我。“把手拿开，哈克贝利，”她数落道，“你总是把这儿弄得一团糟！”

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As I left the house after breakfast, I wondered when my bad luck would arrive

吃过早饭出门时，我心想，这厄运到底什么时候会来呢。

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Then I saw footprints in the new snow

就在这时，我看见刚下的雪地上有几个脚印。

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When I bent down to take a closer look, I noticed a cross made with big nails on the heel of the left boot. I knew that boot!

我弯下腰仔细一看，发现左脚靴子的后跟上有个用大钉子做的十字。我认得那双靴子！

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I ran as fast as I could to Judge Thatcher's house

我拼命跑向撒切尔法官家。

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" Why, my boy, you're all out of breath," he said." Did you come to get some of your money?"

他说：“哎呀，孩子，你跑得上气不接下气。你是来取你的钱吗？”

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" No sir," I said." I don't want it! I want to give all the money to you."

我说：“不，先生，我不想要钱！我想把所有的钱都给您。”

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Judge Thatcher was very surprised. He asked me whether anything was wrong

撒切尔法官非常惊讶，问我是不是出什么事了。

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" Please take it," I begged him," and don't ask me anything — then I won't have to tell you any lies."

我恳求他：“请收下吧，别问我任何问题——这样我就不用对你撒谎了。”

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Finally the judge agreed to buy my money from me for one dollar

最后，法官同意用一块钱买下我的钱。

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He put the dollar in my hand and I left his house

他把那一块钱放到我手里，我离开了他家。

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Miss Watson's black slave Jim, had a magic hairball as big as your fist

沃森小姐的黑奴吉姆有个魔法毛球，有拳头那么大。

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It had come from the fourth stomach of an ox

是从牛的第四个胃里取出来的。

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Jim said there was a spirit inside it that could see the future

吉姆说里面有个精灵能看到未来。

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I went to see Jim that evening. I told him that I knew Pap was back and I wanted to know what he would do

那天晚上我去找吉姆，告诉他我知道帕普回来了，想知道他会做什么。

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Jim got out his hairball and said some strange words to it that I couldn't understand

吉姆拿出他的毛球，对它念了些我听不懂的怪话。

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Then he held it out and dropped it on the floor

然后他举起来，把它丢到地上。

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He got down on his knees, put his ear against the hairball, and listened closely. He shook his head

他跪下来，把耳朵贴在毛球上仔细听，然后摇了摇头。

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" The hairball won't talk without money," Jim said

吉姆说：“不给钱，毛球是不会开口的。”

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I gave Jim an old brass quarter that I had in my pocket

我给了吉姆一枚我口袋里的旧铜币。

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It wasn't a real coin, but maybe the hairball would take it

那不是真钱，但也许毛球会收下。

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Jim put the quarter under the hairball and listened again

吉姆把铜币放到毛球下，又听了起来。

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This time, Jim said the hairball would tell me my whole fortune

这次，吉姆说毛球会告诉我全部的命运。

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The hairball talked to Jim, and Jim repeated it to me:

毛球对吉姆说话，吉姆转述给我听：

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" Your father doesn't know yet what he's going to do, but you're going to be all right

“你爸爸还不知道自己要做什么，但你会没事的。

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You'll have a lot of trouble in your life, but also joy

你一生中会有很多麻烦，但也会有快乐。

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And keep away from water as much as you can."

还有，尽量离水远一点。”

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But when I lit my candle and went up to my room that night, there was Pap!

但那天晚上，当我点起蜡烛上楼进房间时，帕普就在那儿！