FRIENDS AMONG THE WORKINGMEN.

劳动者中有朋友

Thursday, 20th

星期四，二十日

Why "never more," Enrico? That will depend on yourself. When you have finished the fourth grade, you will go to the Gymnasium, and they will become workingmen; but you will remain in the same city for many years, perhaps. Why, then, will you never meet again? When you are in the University or the Lyceum, you will seek them out in their shops or their workrooms, and it will be a great pleasure for you to meet the companions of your youth once more, as men at work.

安利柯！为什么“不长久”呢？你五年级毕了业升了中学，他们入劳动界去。几年之中，彼此都在同一市内，为什么不能相见呢？你即使进了高等学校或大学，不可以到工场里去访问他们吗？在工场中与旧友相见，是多么快乐的事啊！

I should like to see you neglecting to look up Coretti or Precossi, wherever they may be! And you will go to them, and you will pass hours in their company, and you will see, when you come to study life and the world, how many things you can learn from them, which no one else is capable of teaching you, both about their arts and their society and your own country. And have a care; for if you do not preserve these friendships, it will be extremely difficult for you to acquire other similar ones in the future,--friendships, I mean to say, outside of the class to which you belong; and thus you will live in one class only; and the man who associates with but one social class is like the student who reads but one book.

无论在什么地方，你都可以去访问可莱谛和泼来可西的，都可以到他们那里去学习种种事情的。怎样？倘若你和他们不继续交际，那么，你将来就要不能得着这样的友人——和自己阶级不同的友人。到那时候，你就只能在一阶级中生活了。只在一阶级中交际的人，恰和只读一册书籍的学生一样。