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The next day, Mort Hinton was with his boys. They climbed higher on the hill, cutting the briers and brush and tree branches and stacking them neatly into piles. Finn and I pruned our trees.
第二天，莫特·欣顿和他的孩子们一起爬到了山坡的更高处，清理荆棘、灌木丛和树枝，并把它们整齐地堆积起来。芬恩和我则继续修剪我们的果树。
"I'll say one thing for the Hintons, Mom said. "They're good workers."
“我要为欣顿家说句公道话，”妈妈说，“他们都是干活的好手。”
"When they don't throw rocks," Finn said.
“当他们不扔石头时，是的。”芬恩说。
On the fourth day, my guineas flew across the valley where the Hintons were clearing land.
第四天，我的珍珠鸟飞过山谷，飞到了欣顿一家开荒的地方。
"Get these guineas back on your side of the valley," Mort Hinton yelled.
“把这些玩意弄回你们那边去。”莫特?欣顿大喊道。
I didn't want to put my guineas in the hen house. But I had to. I knew Mort Hinton would kill them.
我不想把珍珠鸟关在鸡舍里。但我不得不这样做。我知道莫特?欣顿会杀死它们的。
Each day, that early March, rain or sunshine, four Hintons cleared land on their side of the valley, and Pa, Finn, and I cleared on our side. One day a Hinton boy hollered at us, "You can't clear as much land as we can."
三月初的每一天，无论下雨还是晴天，山谷那边，欣顿家的四个人都在开荒，山谷这边则是我、爸爸和芬恩。有一天，欣顿家的一个男孩向我们大声喊道：“你们开垦的荒地没有我们开垦的多。”
"Don't answer him," Pa said. But we found ourselves trying to do more work than the four of them.
“不要搭理他。”爸爸说。但是我们开始牟着劲干活，试图超过他们四个。
When April came and the Hintons had finished clearing the hill and had burned the brush, Mort Hinton started plowing the new ground. The next day my guineas got out again and flew across the valley to the plowed ground. Mort Hinton caught two of them. The others flew back home when he tried to catch them.
到四月份时，欣顿家已经清理完了整个小山，烧掉了灌木丛，并开始耕种新地了。第二天，我的珍珠鸟又飞过山谷，落到了他们新开垦的土地上。欣顿抓住了其中两只。当他试图抓住另外几只时，它们飞回了家。
Then he yelled across to where we were plowing our new ground and told us what he had done.
然后他朝正在犁地的我们大声喊叫，告诉我们他已经把鸟抓起来了。
"I feel like taking a gun and shooting him," I said.
“我真想拿杆枪崩了他。”我说。
