原文
"I think school is great fun," Davy told Marilla when he got home that
night. "You said I'd find it hard to sit still and I did . . . you mostly
do tell the truth, I notice . . . but you can wriggle your legs about
under the desk and that helps a lot. It's splendid to have so many boys
to play with. I sit with Milty Boulter and he's fine. He's longer than
me but I'm wider. It's nicer to sit in the back seats but you can't sit
there till your legs grow long enough to touch the floor. Milty drawed a
picture of Anne on his slate and it was awful ugly and I told him if he
made pictures of Anne like that I'd lick him at recess. I thought first
I'd draw one of him and put horns and a tail on it, but I was afraid it
would hurt his feelings, and Anne says you should never hurt anyone's
feelings. It seems it's dreadful to have your feelings hurt. It's better
to knock a boy down than hurt his feelings if you MUST do something.
Milty said he wasn't scared of me but he'd just as soon call it somebody
else to 'blige me, so he rubbed out Anne's name and printed Barbara
Shaw's under it. Milty doesn't like Barbara 'cause she calls him a sweet
little boy and once she patted him on his head."
語彙など
- fun:楽しい
- wriggle:そわそわする
- splendid:すてきな
- draw a picture:絵を描く
- slate:石板
- awful:ひどい
- ugly:醜い
- lick:やっつける
- recess:休み時間
- horn:角
- tail:しっぽ
- dreadful:ひどい
- knock down:殴り倒す
- scare:〜を怖がらせる
- as soon:むしろ
- 'blige:=oblige(願いを受け入れる)
- rub out:消す
- print:活字体で書く
- pat:〜を軽くたたく