中国哪些方面世界第一 《魔法师的外甥》第11期:各个世界之间的树林(2)

《魔法师的外甥》第11期:各个世界之间的树林(2)  

Then for quite a long time neither said any more.
"Look here
" said the girl presently
"I wonder did we ever really meet before? I had a sort of idea - a sort of picture in my head - of a boy and a girl
like us - living somewhere quite different - and doing all sorts of things. Perhaps it was only a dream."
"I've had that same dream
I think
" said Digory. "About a boy and a girl
living next door - and something about crawling among rafters. I remember the girl had a dirty face."
"Aren't you getting it mixed? In my dream it was the boy who had the dirty face."
"I can't remember the boy's face
" said Digory: and then added
"Hullo! What's that?"
"Why! it's a guinea-pig
" said the girl. And it was - a fat guinea-pig
nosing about in the grass. But round the middle of the guinea-pig there ran a tape
and
tied on to it by the tape
was a bright yellow ring.
"Look! look
" cried Digory
"The ring! And look! You've got one on your finger. And so have I."
The girl now sat up
really interested at last. They stared very hard at one another
trying to remember. And then
at exactly the same moment
she shouted out "Mr Ketterley" and he shouted out "Uncle Andrew"
and they knew who they were and began to remember the whole story. After a few minutes hard talking they had got it straight. Digory explained how beastly Uncle Andrew had been.
"What do we do now?" said Polly. "Take the guineapig and go home?"
"There's no hurry
" said Digory with a huge yawn.
"I think there is
" said Polly. "This place is too quiet. It's so - so dreamy. You're almost asleep. If we once give in to it we shall just lie down and drowse for ever and ever."
"It's very nice here
" said Digory.
"Yes
it is
" said Polly.
"But we've got to get back." She stood up and began to go cautiously towards the guinea-pig. But then she changed her mind.
"We might as well leave the guinea-pig
" she said. "It's perfectly happy here
and your uncle will only do something horrid to it if we take it home."
"I bet he would
" answered Digory. "Look at the way he's treated us. By the way
how do we get home?"
"Go back into the pool
I expect."
They came and stood together at the edge looking down into the smooth water. It was full of the reflection of the green
leafy branches; they made it look very deep.
"We haven't any bathing things
" said Polly.
"We shan't need them
silly
" said Digory. "We're going in with our clothes on. Don't you remember it didn't wet us on the way up?"