The Street.
街路
Saturday, 25th.
星期六，25日。

I was watching you from the window this afternoon, when you were on your way home from the master's; you came in collision with a woman. Take more heed to your manner of walking in the street. There are duties to be fulfilled even there. If you keep your steps and gestures within bounds in a private house, why should you not do the same in the street, which is everybody's house. Remember this, Enrico. Every time that you meet a feeble old man, a poor person, a woman with a child in her arms, a cripple with his crutches, a man bending beneath a burden, a family dressed in mourning, make way for them respectfully. We must respect age, misery, maternal love, infirmity, labor, death. Whenever you see a person on the point of being run down by a vehicle, drag him away, if it is a child; warn him, if he is a man; always ask what ails the child who is crying all alone; pick up the aged man's cane, when he lets it fall. If two boys are fighting, separate them; if it is two men, go away: do not look on a scene of brutal violence, which offends and hardens the heart. And when a man passes, bound, and walking between a couple of policemen, do not add your curiosity to the cruel curiosity of the crowd; he may be innocent. Cease to talk with your companion, and to smile, when you meet a hospital litter, which is, perhaps, bearing a dying person, or a funeral procession; for one may issue from your own home on the morrow.
今日你从先生家里回来，我在窗口望你。你碰撞了一位妇人。走街路最要当心呀！在街路上也有我们应守的义务，既然知道在家样子要好，那么在街路也同样。街路就是万人的家呢！安利柯不要把这忘了！遇见老人，贫困者，抱着小孩的妇人，拄着拐杖的跋子，负着重物的人，穿着丧服的人，总须亲切地让路。我们对于衰老、不幸、残废、劳动、死亡和慈爱的母亲，应表示敬意。见人将被车子碾轧的时候，如果是小孩，应去救援他；如果是大人，应注意关照他。见有小孩独自在那里哭，要问他原因；见老人手杖落了，要替他抬起。有小孩在相打，要把他们拉开；如果是大人，不要近找去。暴乱人们相打是看不得的，看了自己也不觉会残忍起来了。有人被警察抓住了走过的时候，虽然有许多人集在那里看，你也不该加入张望，因为那人或是冤枉被抓也说不定。如果有病院的担架正在通过，不要和朋友谈天或笑，因为在担架上的或是临终的病人，或竟是葬式都说不定。明天，自己家里或许也要有这样的人哩！