In the meantime, my mother had come into the garden and was caressing now one and now another. Many hung about her, and even on her back, begging for a kiss, with faces upturned as though to a third story, and with mouths that opened and shut as though asking for the breast. One offered her the quarter of an orange which had been bitten, another a small crust of bread; one little girl gave her a leaf; another showed her, with all seriousness, the tip of her forefinger, a minute examination of which revealed a microscopic swelling, which had been caused by touching the flame of a candle on the preceding day. They placed before her eyes, as great marvels, very tiny insects, which I cannot understand their being able to see and catch, the halfs of corks, shirtbuttons, and flowerets pulled from the vases. One child, with a bandaged head, who was determined to be heard at any cost, stammered out to her some story about a head-over-heels tumble, not one word of which was intelligible; another insisted that my mother should bend down, and then whispered in her ear, "My father makes brushes."

母亲走到庭里，一个个地去抚摸他们。于是大家就围集在母亲身旁，要求接吻，都像望三层楼似的把头仰了，目中呀呀做声，情形似在索乳。有想将已吃过的橘子送与母亲的，有剥了小面包的皮给母亲的。一个女孩拿了一片树叶来，另外一个很郑重地把食指伸到母亲前面，原来指上有一个小得不十分看得出的病，据说是昨晚在烛上烫伤的。又有拿了小虫呀、破的软木塞子呀、衬衫的纽扣呀、小花呀等类的东西，很郑重地来给母亲看。一个头上缚着绷带的小孩，说有话对母亲说，不知说了些什么。还有一个请母亲伏倒头去，把口附着母亲的耳朵，轻轻地说“我的父亲是做刷帚的哩。”

And in the meantime a thousand accidents were happening here and there which caused the teachers to hasten up. Children wept because they could not untie a knot in their handkerchiefs; others disputed, with scratches and shrieks, the halves of an apple; one child, who had fallen face downward over a little bench which had been overturned, wept amid the ruins, and could not rise.

事件这里那里地发生，先生们走来走去照料他们。有因解不开手帕的结子哭的，有两人因了夺半个苹果相闹的，有和椅子一起翻倒了爬不起来而哭着的。