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JUNE.
六月
GARIBALDI.
格里勃爾第將軍
June 3d.
六月三日
Tomorrow is the National Festival Day.
（明日是國慶日）
TODAY is a day of national mourning. Garibaldi died last night. Do you know who he is? He is the man who liberated ten millions of Italians from the tyranny of the Bourbons. He died at the age of seventy-five. He was born at Nice, the son of a ship captain. At eight years of age, he saved a woman's life; at thirteen, he dragged into safety a boat-load of his companions who were shipwrecked; at twenty-seven, he rescued from the water at Marseilles a drowning youth; at forty-one, he saved a ship from burning on the ocean.
今天是國喪日，格里勃爾第將軍昨夜逝世了。你知道他的事跡嗎？他是把一千萬意大利人從波旁政府的暴政下救出來的人。七十五年前，他生于尼斯。父親是個船長，他八歲時，救過一個女子的生命；十三歲時，和朋友共乘小艇遇險，把朋友平安救起；二十七歲時，在馬塞救起一個將淹死的青年。四十一歲時，在海上救助過一只險遭火災的船。
He fought for ten years in America for the liberty of a strange people; he fought in three wars against the Austrians, for the liberation of Lombardy and Trentino; he defended Rome from the French in 1849; he delivered Naples and Palermo in 1860; he fought again for Rome in 1867; he combated with the Germans in defence of France in 1870. He was possessed of the flame of heroism and the genius of war. He was engaged in forty battles, and won thirty-seven of them. When he was not fighting, he was laboring for his living, or he shut himself up in a solitary island, and tilled the soil. He was teacher, sailor, workman, trader, soldier, general, dictator. He was simple, great, and good. He hated all oppressors, he loved all peoples, he protected all the weak.
他為了他國人的自由，在亞美利加曾作十年的戰爭，為爭隆巴爾地和社論諦諾的自由，曾與奧地利軍交戰三次。一八四九年守羅馬以拒法國的攻擊，一八六零年救那不勒斯和巴勒莫，一八六七年再為羅馬而戰，一八七零年和德意志戰爭，防御法軍。他剛毅勇敢，在四十回戰爭中得過三十七回勝利。平時以勞動自活，隱耕孤島。教員、海員、勞動者、商人、兵士、將軍、執政官，什么都做過。是個質利、偉大而且善良的人；是個痛惡一切壓迫，愛護人民，保護弱者的人。
