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  • STORY XIII

    BUDDY1 PIGG IN A BOAT

    After Percival, the old circus dog, had been so kind to Dr. Pigg, in the matter of jumping into the pond with the big firecracker, which the bad fox had lighted, the old gentleman guinea pig said:

    "I wish, Percival, you would spend a few days with us. I'm afraid that ugly tramp fox will come back."

    "Of course I will," agreed the dog. "The Bow Wows are going down to Asbury Park for the summer, and I don't much care for the seashore, so I'll stay home and spend a few days with you. And in case that fox does come back—"

    Well, Percival didn't say what he would do, but land sakes, flopsy dub3! Oh me, and a potato pancake! You should have seen him show his teeth and growl4.

    Well, it was a few days after Percival had come to pay a little visit to the Pigg family that something happened to Buddy, and I'm going to tell you about it.

    You see, it had been raining pretty hard for a week or more—yes, nearly two weeks, and it didn't seem as if it was ever going to stop. There had been thunder showers and lightning showers and hail showers and just plain rain showers, and they were all more or less wet; and when it did finally stop raining there was a lot of water all over.

    One day, the first day, in fact, after it stopped raining, Buddy was taking a walk, and glad enough he was to be out of the pen. He strolled along, letting the warm sun and the gentle wind dry his black and white fur, and he was thinking of, oh! ever so many things, when, all at once, he came to a little pond; only this time it was a great big pond, because it had so much water in it. And on the shore of the pond was a boat that some boys had been playing with.

    "Oh, fine!" cried Buddy Pigg. "I'll get in and make believe I'm a sailor, just as Billie and Johnnie Bushytail and Jennie Chipmunk5 did once. I've always wanted a ride in a boat, and now's my chance!"

    So he climbed into the boat, and he made believe he was sailing away off to China, where they make firecrackers and fans, and then, when he was half-way there (make believe, you know), why, he turned around and sailed for India, where it's very hot; but all this while the boat was partly on the bank and partly in the water, and Buddy only rocked it from side to side, pretending it was moving.

    Well, after he reached India, what did he do but find it so hot there that he turned around at once and sailed for the North Pole, so he could be nice and cool.

    Then, all at once, as quickly as you can eat an ice cream cone6 on a hot day, if something didn't happen. Buddy looked up, after reaching the North Pole, and he found that the boat was adrift, floating off across the big pond, with the wind blowing it faster, and faster, and faster.

    At first Buddy thought it was fun; then, as he saw that he was getting farther and farther from shore, he became frightened. He looked for something with which to send the boat back to land, but there was no sail in it, and no oars7; and, if there had been, the little guinea pig boy couldn't have used them, I don't suppose. Well, there he was, really sailing off to some unknown country this time, in earnest, and not make believe.

    Then he began to cry, and he called out as loudly as he could:

    "Help! Help! Help!" and who should come running down to the shore but Peetie and Jackie Bow Wow, the two puppy dogs. They hadn't gone to Asbury Park yet, you see, but they were going soon.

    "What's the matter?" asked Peetie.

    "The boat is taking me away off," answered Buddy.

    "Jump out and swim to shore!" cried Peetie.

    "I can't swim," called back Buddy.

    "Oh, we'll show you how," went on Jackie, and then he and Peetie jumped into the water and began to show Buddy how to swim, but he was too frightened to learn, and, besides, the two puppy dogs were too far off for him to see them plainly. Then they swam out, and they tried to pull the boat back to shore, but they were not strong enough.

    "Oh, I'll be drowned! I'll be drowned!" cried Buddy. "What shall I do? Tell my mamma good-by for me," he said to Jackie.

    "We'll tell her you're in trouble, and maybe she will know of a way to save you," called Peetie and Jackie.

    So they ran and told Mrs. Pigg, and she and Brighteyes came running down to the shore of the pond.

    "Oh, my poor little boy," cried Mamma Pigg, when she saw Buddy being carried farther and farther away.

    "Oh, how can we reach him?" wailed8 Brighteyes, wringing9 her paws. "We must save him, somehow!"

    Just then along came Billie and Johnnie Bushytail, the squirrels.

    "Stick up your tail like a sail and the wind will blow you ashore2!" they cried to Buddy. "That's what we did."

    "I haven't any tail," answered Buddy, real sorrowful-like.

    "That's so," said the little squirrel boys, and it began to look pretty bad for poor Buddy, let me tell you.

    "Oh, dear! Oh, dear!" cried Mamma Pigg. "I'll never see my poor boy again," for he was quite far off by this time.

    Then, all of a sudden, down to the edge of the pond, came rushing Percival, the old circus dog.

    "I'll save Buddy!" he cried. "I'll carry a rope out to him, and he can fasten it to the boat, and then we can pull him ashore."

    Well, Percival took a rope in his mouth and started to swim out, but a funny thing happened. The water got in his mouth and washed the rope away, and he couldn't carry it, though he tried a number of times.

    Then everybody felt sorry, and Jackie Bow Wow was just suggesting that they build a raft and float out on it to Buddy, when who should come along but Jimmie Wibblewobble, the boy duck. They all told him what the trouble was, and he said, "Quack10! Quack! Quack!" three times, just like that, and exclaimed:

    "I have it! I can swim out with the rope in my bill, for my head will be above the water."

    He did it too, in about two quacks11 and a quarter. Then he helped Buddy fasten the rope to the side of the boat, and those on land, including Percival, the two Bow Wows and Mamma Pigg and Brighteyes, soon pulled the boat and Buddy in it ashore.

    Buddy said he was never going sailing again, and I guess he never did, for he was very much frightened, but he soon got over it and played with Jimmie and Jackie and Peetie, while Mamma Pigg had to go home to take something for her nerves.

    Now, if I have rhubarb pie for supper, and the ham sandwich doesn't squeal12 when they put mustard on it, I'll tell you about Brighteyes and the peanut candy in the next story.

     单词标签: buddy  ashore  dub  growl  chipmunk  cone  oars  wailed  wringing  quack  quacks  squeal 


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    1 buddy [ˈbʌdi] 3xGz0E   第8级
    n.(美口)密友,伙伴
    参考例句:
    • Calm down, buddy. What's the trouble? 压压气,老兄。有什么麻烦吗?
    • Get out of my way, buddy! 别挡道了,你这家伙!
    2 ashore [əˈʃɔ:(r)] tNQyT   第7级
    adv.在(向)岸上,上岸
    参考例句:
    • The children got ashore before the tide came in. 涨潮前,孩子们就上岸了。
    • He laid hold of the rope and pulled the boat ashore. 他抓住绳子拉船靠岸。
    3 dub [dʌb] PmEyG   第8级
    vt.(以某种称号)授予,给...起绰号,复制
    参考例句:
    • I intend to use simultaneous recording to dub this film. 我打算采用同期录音的方法为这部影片配音。
    • It was dubbed into Spanish for Mexican audiences. 它被译制成西班牙语以方便墨西哥观众观看。
    4 growl [graʊl] VeHzE   第8级
    vi. 咆哮着说 vt. 咆哮;(雷电,炮等)轰鸣 n. 咆哮声;吠声;不平
    参考例句:
    • The dog was biting, growling and wagging its tail. 那条狗在一边撕咬一边低声吼叫,尾巴也跟着摇摆。
    • The car growls along rutted streets. 汽车在车辙纵横的街上一路轰鸣。
    5 chipmunk [ˈtʃɪpmʌŋk] lr4zT   第11级
    n.花栗鼠
    参考例句:
    • This little chipmunk is hungry. 这只小花栗鼠肚子饿了。
    • Once I brought her a chipmunk with a wound on its stomach. 一次,我带了只腹部受伤的花栗鼠去找她。
    6 cone [kəʊn] lYJyi   第8级
    n.圆锥体,圆锥形东西,球果
    参考例句:
    • Saw-dust piled up in a great cone. 锯屑堆积如山。
    • The police have sectioned off part of the road with traffic cone. 警察用锥形路标把部分路面分隔开来。
    7 oars [ɔ:z] c589a112a1b341db7277ea65b5ec7bf7   第7级
    n.桨,橹( oar的名词复数 );划手v.划(行)( oar的第三人称单数 )
    参考例句:
    • He pulled as hard as he could on the oars. 他拼命地划桨。
    • The sailors are bending to the oars. 水手们在拼命地划桨。 来自《简明英汉词典》
    8 wailed [weild] e27902fd534535a9f82ffa06a5b6937a   第9级
    v.哭叫,哀号( wail的过去式和过去分词 )
    参考例句:
    • She wailed over her father's remains. 她对着父亲的遗体嚎啕大哭。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
    • The women of the town wailed over the war victims. 城里的妇女为战争的死难者们痛哭。 来自辞典例句
    9 wringing [rɪŋɪŋ] 70c74d76c2d55027ff25f12f2ab350a9   第7级
    淋湿的,湿透的
    参考例句:
    • He was wringing wet after working in the field in the hot sun. 烈日下在田里干活使他汗流满面。
    • He is wringing out the water from his swimming trunks. 他正在把游泳裤中的水绞出来。
    10 quack [kwæk] f0JzI   第10级
    n.庸医;江湖医生;冒充内行的人;骗子
    参考例句:
    • He describes himself as a doctor, but I feel he is a quack. 他自称是医生,可是我感觉他是个江湖骗子。
    • The quack was stormed with questions. 江湖骗子受到了猛烈的质问。
    11 quacks [kwæks] fcca4a6d22cfeec960c2f34f653fe3d7   第10级
    abbr.quacksalvers 庸医,骗子(16世纪习惯用水银或汞治疗梅毒的人)n.江湖医生( quack的名词复数 );江湖郎中;(鸭子的)呱呱声v.(鸭子)发出嘎嘎声( quack的第三人称单数 )
    参考例句:
    • I went everywhere for treatment, tried all sorts of quacks. 我四处求医,看过了各种各样的江湖郎中。 来自辞典例句
    • Hard-working medical men may come to be almost as mischievous as quacks. 辛勤工作的医生可能变成江湖郎中那样的骗子。 来自辞典例句
    12 squeal [skwi:l] 3Foyg   第11级
    vt.&vi.发出长而尖的声音;n.长而尖的声音
    参考例句:
    • The children gave a squeal of fright. 孩子们发出惊吓的尖叫声。
    • There was a squeal of brakes as the car suddenly stopped. 小汽车突然停下来时,车闸发出尖叫声。

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