Moving House

There was a person who kind of liked silence, not too
much noise. But unluckily for him, he lived in between
the two building blocks in which two different artisans
were working. The first one was a carpenter, and he used
his machines and sawed everyday. Vroom, vroom! You
know what it is like. Ah, very, very noisy. This was on
his left. The other one on his right made knives,
by pounding the hammer on top of a piece of iron or things
like that. So, both of them, one sawing and one pounding
everyday like this. He couldn't bear it anymore. So, one day
he came and talked to them, invited them both to his
house to have tea, and he said, "Wow! It would be a day
if both of you moved house. I would give a really big
party and say good-bye. Whatever you want will be in
that party." So, both of them, the carpenter and the
blacksmith were very happy and said, "Okay, okay!
You remember. You promised. When we move house,
you make a party for us. You remember." And the owner
of the quiet house said, "Of course, of course! I'm a
gentleman. Once I've said it, I will keep it."
It happened one day that both of them came to him
happily and said, "Tomorrow we will move house. Now,
make a party for us." So, he said, "Oh, of course, of course!
Right away!" So, he tried to have all his servants, wife and
kids kill all the whatever...chicken, vegetarian chicken
perhaps. Even if he was a vegetarian, but they liked
chicken so he even got the chicken and everything for
them -- all the wine, cigarettes, all the beautiful beer
and all the delicacies. Really, really, a very swell party,
as promised. After they had eaten everything already,
so the host asked them, "Oh, well. I'm also very sorry
that you moved house, but where have you both
moved to?" You know already. The blacksmith said,
"I've moved to the carpenter's house and the carpenter
has moved to my house!"

搬家

以前有一个人很爱清静，不幸的是，他住在两幢房子的中间，而

这两幢房子分别住着两位工匠。第一个是木匠，这个木匠用机器

锯木，嗍！嗍！你们知道吧！非常地吵闹，这是在他左边。在他右边

是个做刀的，你们知道用锤子在一块铁上不停敲打有多吵吧！

这两个人，一个锯木，一个打铁，每天都这样，所以他不能再

忍受下去了。有一天他走来跟他们两个人谈话，邀请他们两人去

他家里喝茶，然后他说：「哎！如果有一天你们都搬家，那真是

个大日子，我将会大肆请客一番来与你们道别。你们想要的都可

在宴会中得到。」木匠及铁匠两人听了都很高兴地说：「很好，

很好，你记着哦！你答应的哦！当我们搬走的那一天，你会举办

一个宴会？」爱清静的主人说：「当然！当然！我是个君子，

一言既出，驷马难追！」

　有一天，两个工匠都快乐地来跟他说：「明天我们要搬家了，

现在为我们办派对吧！」所以他说：「当然！当然！马上来！」

所以他叫所有的佣人、妻子、儿女一起帮忙杀鸡；可能是素鸡，

虽然他吃素，但客人爱吃鸡，所以他甚至拿鸡请他们，备酒、烟

及所有美味的啤酒，样样珍肴，如同先前约定的一般。当他们

饮饱食醉之后，那个主人问他们：「噢！我感到有点难过，

你们要搬走了，但不知道你们搬到那里去了？」你们已经知道了吗？

那个铁匠说：「我搬到木匠家里，而他搬进我的家！」