"Do you want anything else, mamma?" he asked, as he took the cup from her. "Have you taken the two spoonfuls of syrup? When it is all gone, I will make a trip to the apothecary's. The wood is unloaded. At four o'clock I will put the meat on the stove, as you told me; and when the butter-woman passes, I will give her those eight soldi. Everything will go on well; so don't give it a thought."

“母亲，不再饮了吗？”可莱谛说着从母亲手中接过杯子，“药已喝了吗？如果完了，让我再跑药店去。柴已经卸好了。四点钟的时候，把肉来烧了。卖牛油的如果走过，把那八个铜子还了他就是了。诸事我都会弄好的，你不必多劳心了。”

"Thanks, my son!" replied the woman. "Go, my poor boy!--he thinks of everything."

“亏得有你！你可以去了。一切留心些。”

She insisted that I should take a lump of sugar; and then Coretti showed me a little picture,--the photograph portrait of his father dressed as a soldier, with the medal for bravery which he had won in 1866, in the troop of Prince Umberto: he had the same face as his son, with the same vivacious eyes and his merry smile.

他母亲这样说了，还一定要我吃一块方糖。可莱谛指他父亲的照相给我看。他父亲穿了军服，胸间挂着的勋章，据说是在温培水肥亲王部下的时候得来的。相貌和可莱谛一模一样，眼睛也是活泼泼的，露出很快乐的笑容。

We went back to the kitchen. "I have found the thing," said Coretti; and he added on his copy- book, horse-trappings are also made of it. "The rest I will do this evening; I shall sit up later. How happy you are, to have time to study and to go to walk, too!" And still gay and active, he re- entered the shop, and began to place pieces of wood on the horse and to saw them, saying: "This is gymnastics; it is quite different from the throw your arms forwards. I want my father to find all this wood sawed when he gets home; how glad he will be! The worst part of it is that after sawing I make T's and L's which look like snakes, so the teacher says. What am I to do? I will tell him that I have to move my arms about. The important thing is to have mamma get well quickly. She is better to-day, thank Heaven! I will study my grammar to-morrow morning at cock-crow. Oh, here's the cart with logs! To work!"

我们又回到厨房里。“有了！”可莱谛说着继续在笔记簿上写，“——马鞍也是革做的——以后晚上再做吧。今天非迟睡不可了。你真幸福，有工夫用功，还有闲暇散步。”他又活泼地跑出店堂，将柴搁在台上用锯截断：“这是我的体操哩。可是和那‘两手向前’的体操不同。父亲回来以前，我把这柴锯了，使他见了欢喜。最讨厌的就是手拿了锯以后，写起字来，笔划同蛇一样。但是也无法可想，只好在先生面前把事情直说了。——母亲快点病好才好啊！今天已好了许多，谢天谢地！明天鸡一叫，就起来预备文法吧。——咿哟！柴又来了。快去搬吧！”

A small cart laden with logs halted in front of the shop. Coretti ran out to speak to the man, then returned: "I cannot keep your company any longer now," he said; "farewell until to-morrow. You did right to come and hunt me up. A pleasant walk to you! happy fellow!" And pressing my hand, he ran to take the first log, and began once more to trot back and forth between the cart and the shop, with a face as fresh as a rose beneath his catskin cap, and so alert that it was a pleasure to see him.

货车满装着柴，已停在店前了。可莱谛走向车去，又回过来：“我已不能陪你了，明日再会吧。你来得真好，再会，再会，快快乐乐地散你的步吧，你真是幸福啊！”他把我的手紧握了一下，仍来往于店与车之间，脸孔红红地像蔷蔽，那种敏捷的动作，使人看了也爽快。

"Happy fellow!" he had said to me. Ah, no, Coretti, no; you are the happier, because you study and work too; because you are of use to your father and your mother; because you are better--a hundred times better--and more courageous than I, my dear schoolmate.

“你真是幸福啊！”他虽对我这样说，其实不然，啊！可莱谛！其实不然。你才比我幸福呢。因为你既能用功，又能劳动；能替你父母尽力。你比我要好一百倍，勇敢一百倍呢！好朋友啊！