Ngôi nhà nhỏ trên thảo nguyên (nguyên bản tiếng Anh)

Ngôi nhà nhỏ trên thảo nguyên (nguyên bản tiếng Anh)

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Tác giả: Laura Ingalls Wilder

GOING WEST
Along time ago, when all the grandfa and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies,or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Bay Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Winconsin.They drove away and left it lonely and empty in the clearling among the big trees, and they never saw that little house again.
They were going to the Indian country
Pa said there were too mary people in the Big Woods now.Quite often Laura heard the ringing thud of an ax which was not Pa''s ax, or the echo of a shot that did not come from his gun.The path that went by the little house had become a road.Almost everyday Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by that road.
Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were soo many people.Pa did not like to stay, either.He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.He liked to see the little fawns and their mothers looking at him from the shadowy woods, and the fat, lazy bear eating berries in the wild-berry patches.
In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country.In the West the land was level and there were no trees.The grass grow thick and high.There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that streched much farther than a man could see , and there were no settlers .Only Indians lived there.
One day in the very last of the winter Pa said to Ma ,"Seeing you don''t object ,I''ve decided to go see the West.I''ve had an offer for this place, and we can sell it now for as much as we''re ever likely to get.,enough to give us a start in a new country".
"Oh Charles, muss we go now?" Ma said.The weather was so cold and the snug house was so comfortable.
"If we are going this year .we muss go now" said Pa."We can''t get across the Mississippi after the ice breaks".
So Pa sold the little house.He sold the cow and calf.He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box.Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them.
In the thin dark before morning Ma gently shook Mary and Laura till they got up.In fire and candlelight she washed and combed them and dressed them warmly.Over their long red- flannel underwear she put woll petti and wool dressed and long wool stock.She put their coats on them , and their rabbit-skin hoods and their red yarn mittens.
Everything from the little house was in the wagon ,except the beds and tables and chairs.They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make the new ones.
There was thin snow on the ground.The air was still and cold and dark. The bare trees stood up against the frosty stars.But in the East the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses,bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.
Mary and Laura clung tight to their rag dolls and did not say anything.The cousins stood around and looked at them.Grandma and all the aunts hugged and kissed them and hugged and kissed them again,saying good-by.

It''''s so wonderful! Thanks for your posting this one here. But I wonder why you don''''t keep on posting it anymore.
C''''mon....
Được tamagotchi81 sửa chữa / chuyển vào 19:46 ngày 27/09/2004