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The Doll's Thanks giving Dinner
玩偶的感恩節晚餐
"Why can't dolls have a Thanksgiving dinner like real people?" asked Polly.
“為什么玩偶不能像真人一樣享用感恩節大餐呢?”波莉問。
Mother smiled. "Perhaps they can," she answered. "When you have swept and dusted the doll house, you may set the table. Then put their best dresses on your dolls, while I see about a dinner for them."
媽媽笑了。“或許它們也能享用，”她說，“你打掃玩具屋的時候，可以放一張桌子。然后給你的玩偶穿上最好看的衣服，我會給它們做一頓晚餐。”
"Oh, how nice!" Polly cried happily.
“噢，太棒了！”波莉高興地大叫道。
The doll house stood in Polly's room. It was very large and very beautiful.
玩具屋在波莉的房間里。它非常大，也非常漂亮。
Polly swept the doll house and dusted it.
波利打掃了玩具屋，撣去灰塵。
She set the dolls' table for dinner with her very best dishes. In the middle of the table, she set a tiny bowl of pink flowers. Then she put a wee napkin and a cup and saucer beside each plate.
她用自己最好的餐具布置了玩偶的餐桌。她在桌子中央放了一小碗粉花。然后在每個盤子旁邊放了一張小餐巾、一個杯子和碟子。
When the table was set, Polly put a blue dress on Sally, a pink one on Molly, and a yellow one on Betty Jane. Then she put the dolls around the table, with Sally between Molly and Betty Jane.
桌子布置好后，波莉給薩莉穿了一件藍裙，給莫利穿了一件粉裙，給貝蒂·簡穿了一件黃裙。然后她把玩偶放到桌子旁，薩莉坐在莫利和貝蒂·簡中間。
"Remember to use your napkin, Sally," she said. "Be careful, Molly! Don't drop anything on your pink dress."
“薩莉，記得用紙巾，”她說，“莫利，小心點兒！不要把東西掉在你的粉裙上。”
Just then Polly's mother came in with the dolls' Thanksgiving dinner.
就在這時，波莉的媽媽帶著玩偶的感恩節晚餐進來了。
Polly put the dinner on the table. Each doll had a small plate filled with turkey and other good things. There were wee cups of cocoa, a tiny cake, and the smallest pumpkin pie you ever saw.
波莉把晚餐放在桌上。每個玩偶都有一個小碟子，里面裝滿了火雞和其他好東西。還有一小杯可可、一塊小蛋糕，還有你見過的最小南瓜派。
Now everything was ready for the dolls' Thanksgiving dinner.
現在玩偶晚餐所需的所有東西都準備好了。
"Good-by, my dears," said Polly. "Have a good time." Then she kissed them and ran downstairs to her own dinner.
“親愛的，再見，”波莉說，“好好享受。”然后她吻了它們，跑下樓去吃晚餐了。
Polly's parents had asked some friends to come and eat Thanksgiving dinner with them.
波莉的父母邀請了一些朋友來和他們一起吃感恩節晚餐。
After dinner one of the men did tricks with the napkins. First, he changed his napkin into a funny pig. Then he took Polly's napkin and changed it into a little rabbit. Polly thought this was great fun.
晚飯后，有個男人用餐巾紙做了個魔術。開始，他把餐巾變成了一只有趣的豬。然后他拿起波利的餐巾，把它變成了一只小兔子。波利覺得很有趣。
Suddenly she remembered the dolls and jumped down from her chair.
突然，她想起了玩偶，從椅子上跳了下來。
"Oh, mother," she said, "I forgot about my doll. May I go and see if they have eaten their dinner?"
“媽媽，我忘了我的玩偶。我能去看看它們是否在吃晚餐嗎？”她說。
Mother told about the Thanksgiving dinner in the doll house, and everyone wanted to go with Polly. So they all went upstairs together.
媽媽告訴大家玩具屋感恩節晚餐的事，大家都想和波莉一起去。于是他們一起上了樓。
The dolls were sitting just as Polly had left them. But nearly all the dinner had been eaten. There were crumbs on the plates and all over the table.
這些玩偶就像波莉離開時一樣。但是幾乎所有的晚餐都被吃掉了。盤子和桌子上滿是面包屑。
The bread and cake were all gone, and part of the tiny pie had been eaten.
面包和蛋糕都被吃光了，一小塊餡餅已經吃完了。
"Isn't this strange?" said father. "I didn't know that dolls could really eat."
“不奇怪嗎？”爸爸說，“我不知道玩偶能吃飯。”
Just then there came a squeak from the doll house, and a little gray mouse peeped out from beneath the table. He ran out of the door and down the steps of the doll house.
就在這時，玩具屋傳來了吱吱聲，一只灰色的小老鼠從桌子底下探出頭來。它跑出了門，走下了玩具屋的臺階。
There was a second tiny mouse in the doll house, under a chair. A third one hid beneath the bed, with his thin gray tail sticking out.
玩具屋還有第二只小老鼠，藏在椅子下面。第三只藏在了床底下，細細的灰尾巴伸了出來。
All the mice ran away. They looked as though they had eaten a big dinner.
所有的老鼠都跑了。它們看起來好像吃了一頓大餐。
"Shall I get the cat ?"asked mother.
“我去找貓好嗎?”媽媽問。
"No," said father. "Why can't poor mice have a Thanksgiving dinner, too?"
爸爸說：“不用了，可憐的老鼠也該吃頓感恩節晚餐的，對吧？”
