We looked at the maps and we discussedverb.讨论 plans. We decidedverb.决定 to start from Kingston the followingverb.跟随 Saturday. "Harris, you and I will go to get the boatnoun.小船 at Kingston," I said. "Then we'll take it up the river to Churtsie, where we'll meet George." George works in the city until the afternoon. George goes to sleep at a bank from 10 o'clock to 4 o'clock, Monday to Friday, except on Saturdays. On Saturdays they wakeverb.醒来 him up at 2 o'clock and put him outside the door.
The next problem was where to sleep at night. "George and I didn't want to sleep in innsnoun.小旅店. We wanted to campverb.扎营 out in the middle of naturenoun.大自然." "How beautiful," we said, "sleeping in the country, under the stars, by the river." "I can imagineverb.想象 it all," I said. "There is a goldenadj.金色的 sunsetnoun.日落. The river is moving alongadv.向前 quietlyadv.安静地. The forestnoun.森林 is full of trees and birds. The grass around us is green and little flowers grow here and there."
Soon it is dark. We row our boatnoun.小船 into a quiet corner on the river. We put up our tentnoun.帐篷 and cook a simple, healthy meal. We all sit around a warm fire and eat our meal. We look up and see the moon and the stars. Then we sit in silencenoun.沉默. How wonderful this is! We go to bed and then we dreamverb.做梦 under the stars. We dreamverb.做梦 that the world is young again. As we all sat there dreamingverb.做梦, Harris said, "What happens if it rains?" There is nothing poeticadj.诗的 about Harris.
He is not romanticadj.浪漫的 at all. If Harris everadv.在任何时候 has tearsnoun.眼泪 in his eyes, he is eating rawadj.未煮过的 onions. If you stand by the sea with Harris and say, "Listen to the sounds of the sea. Can you hear spiritsnoun.精神 singing sad songs, the songs of those who died in these waters?" He will take you by the arm and say, "I understandverb.(understood) 理解, my friend. You are not feeling well. Now, come with me. I know a place around the corner here where you can get some good whiskeynoun.威士忌酒.
You'll feel better soon." Harris always knows where you can find a good whiskeynoun.威士忌酒. Harris was right about campingverb.扎营 out when it rains. It's not nice at all. Just imagineverb.想象. It is evening. You are all wet. There is water in the boatnoun.小船 and all your things are wet. You find a place on the river bank. You get out of the boatnoun.小船 and pull out the tentnoun.帐篷. Now, two of you tryverb.尝试 to put it up. The tentnoun.帐篷 is wet and very heavy.
It is raining hard. The wind is blowing. The wet tentnoun.帐篷 flies about. It falls on your head and makes you angry. It is difficultadj.困难的 to put up a tentnoun.帐篷 in good weather. It is impossibleadj.不可能的 to do so in wet weather. The other man is of no helpnoun.帮手 at all. He is a completeadj.完整的 foolnoun.蠢人. The wind continuesverb.继续 to blow and the rain continuesverb.继续 to fall. You look at the other man and say, "What are you doing with your side of the tentnoun.帐篷?" "What are you doing?" he answers.
"Don't pull on your side!" You shoutverb.呼喊. "I didn't pull. You pulled!" He shoutsverb.呼喊. "You're doing everything wrong!" You shoutverb.呼喊. "What?" he shoutsverb.呼喊. "I can't hear you." "You don't know how to put up a tentnoun.帐篷. We'll never put up this tentnoun.帐篷," you say. At this pointnoun.要点, the third man has pulled the boatnoun.小船 out of the water. He is completelyadv.十分 wet. He wants to know why the tentnoun.帐篷 isn't up yetadv.到目前为止. Everyone is wet and angry. Harris was right.
Campingverb.扎营 out in rainyadj.下雨的 weather is not a good ideanoun.想法. We decidedverb.决定 to campverb.扎营 out in good weather and to sleep in an innnoun.小旅店 or hotel in bad weather. Montmorency agreed with this decisionnoun.决定. He likes innsnoun.小旅店 and hotels. Montmorency doesn't like the quiet life. He prefersverb.更喜欢 noise and confusionnoun.混乱. He looks like a good, well-behavedverb.表现 dog, but he's not. When you look at Montmorency, you see an angelnoun.天使 from paradise in the formnoun.形式 of a small foxnoun.狐狸 terrier. You think he is a sweet, gentleadj.和蔼的 little dog.
When old ladies and gentlemennoun.绅士 look at him, tearsnoun.眼泪 come to their eyes. When he killedverb.杀死 twelve chickens and I paid for them, I changed my opinionnoun.意见 of Montmorency. In one year, he had one hundred and fourteen street fightsnoun.打仗 with other dogs. An angry woman brought me her dead cat and calledverb.把…叫做 me a murderernoun.杀人犯. Montmorency loves to join the worst dogs. He then takes them around town to fightverb.打(仗) other dogs. This is his ideanoun.想法 of a happy life.