原文
"Willie White's began,
""Respected Miss,
""I want to tell you about my Very Brave Aunt. She lives in Ontario and one day she went out to the barn and saw a dog in the yard. The dog had no business there so she got a stick and whacked him hard and drove him into the barn and shut him up. Pretty soon a man came looking for an inaginary lion' (Query;--Did Willie mean a menagerie lion?) 'that had run away from a circus. And it turned out that the dog was a lion and my Very Brave Aunt had druv him into the barn with a stick. It was a wonder she was not et up but she was very brave. Emerson Gillis says if she thought it was a dog she wasn't any braver than if it really was a dog. But Emerson is jealous because he hasn't got a Brave Aunt himself, nothing but uncles.'
語彙など
- barn:納屋,物置
- have no business:〜する権利がない
- stick:棒
- whack:強く打つ
- menagerie:見世物用に集めた動物
- run away from:〜から逃げ出す
- circus:サーカス
- turn out:結局〜であることが分かる
- wonder:驚異
- et:eaten
- nothing but:〜だけ