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It was supper time, we also were hungry. We peered into the dining room,
現在是午餐時間，我們也饑腸轆轆了。我們朝餐廳張望，
three tables full of men; a huge pile of beds on the floor, covered with hats and coats;
只見里面放著三張餐桌，都坐滿了人。地板上堆著一堆木床，上面搭著帽子和衣服；
a singular wall, made entirely of doors propped upright; a triangular space walled off by sailcloth,
一面墻上立著做好的門，其他三面墻覆蓋著帆布，
this is what we saw. We stood outside, waiting among the scaffolding and benches.
這就是我們看到的景象。我們站在外面，在腳手架和長條凳之間等待就餐。
A black man was lighting the candles in a candelabrum made of two narrow bars of wood nailed across each other at right angles, and perforated with holes.
這時，一個黑人點燃燭臺上的蠟燭，這個燭臺是用交叉搭成直角形的兩根狹窄的木條組成的，上面鉆了些小孔以便插蠟燭。
The candles sputtered, and the hot fat fell on the shavings below.
蠟燭發出噼噼啪啪的蠟油燃燒的聲音，滾燙的蠟油掉在下面的刨花上。
"Dangerous way of lighting a room full of shavings," some one said. The landlord looked up at the swinging candelabra and laughed.
“小心點燃滿屋子的刨花，”有人警告道，店主抬頭瞥了一眼晃晃悠悠的燭臺，笑了起來。
"Tried it pretty often," he said. "Never burned a house down yet."
“經常這樣，”他說，“屋里從沒有著過火。”
I observed one peculiarity in the speech at Garland City. Personal pronouns, as a rule, were omitted, there was no time for a superfluous word.
我在花環城發表的演講中指出過該城的一大特色。一般來說，人們說話都會省略人稱代詞，因為根本沒有時間聽多余的詞。
"Took down this house at Wagon Creek," he continued, "just one week ago, took it down one morning while the people were eating breakfast,
“在停馬車的小溪那兒建的房子給拆了，”他繼續道。“就在一星期前，一天早晨原來的房子拆了，當時大家都在吃早餐呢，
took it down over their heads, putting it up again over their heads now."
在他們的頭頂上拆的房子，現在又在他們頭頂上建起來了。”
