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A LITTLE DEAD BOY.
小孩的死亡
Monday, 13th.
周一，十三日
The little boy who lived in the vegetable-vender's court, the one who belonged to the upper primary, and was the companion of my brother, is dead. Schoolmistress Delcati came in great affliction, on Saturday afternoon, to inform the master of it; and instantly Garrone and Coretti volunteered to carry the coffin. He was a fine little lad. He had won the medal last week. He was fond of my brother, and he had presented him with a broken money-box. My mother always caressed him when she met him. He wore a cap with two stripes of red cloth. His father is a porter on the railway. Yesterday (Sunday) afternoon, at half-past four o'clock, we went to his house, to accompany him to the church.
住在賣野菜的人家附近的那個二年級的小孩——我弟弟的朋友——死了。星期六下午，代爾卡諦先生哭喪了臉來通知我們的先生。卡隆和可萊諦就自己請求抬那小孩的棺材。那小孩是個好孩子，上星期才受過賞牌，和我弟弟很要好。我母親看見那孩子，總是要去抱他的。他父親戴著有兩條紅線的帽子，是個鐵路上的站役、昨天（星期日）午后四時半，我們因送葬都到了他的家里。
They live on the ground floor. Many boys of the upper primary, with their mothers, all holding candles, and five or six teachers and several neighbors were already collected in the courtyard. The mistress with the red feather and Signora Delcati had gone inside, and through an open window we beheld them weeping. We could hear the mother of the child sobbing loudly. Two ladies, mothers of two school companions of the dead child, had brought two garlands of flowers.
他們住在樓下。二年級的學生已都由母親們領帶著，手里拿了蠟燭等在那里了。先生到的四五人，此外還有附近的鄰人們。由窗口望去，赤帽羽的女先生和代爾卡諦先生在屋子里噴泣，那做母親的則大聲地哭叫著。有兩個貴婦人（這是孩子的朋友的母親）各拿了一個花圈也在那里。
