Here the whole family were painting wooden horses. Two lads painted them white and set them aside to dry. The others took the white horses that had already dried and painted black spots on them and a black stripe down their backs; though, why they did this I cannot tell you, and I doubt if they could have told themselves. Certainly no living white horse ever had such spots on it or such a line down its spine. But horses were scarce in the Toy Valley, and probably no one in it had ever seen a white horse; so they had to do the best they could, and once, away back, no doubt, some carver with a bright imagination had so painted his horses, and ever after, all his descendants, who knew no more about white horses than he did, had painted them that way, too.
在这里，全家人都在画木马K~dN9s6*Bb。两个小伙子把它们涂成白色，放在一边晾干Ll@yUIYl+6hTnWk-soB。其余的人把那些已经晒干的白马，画上黑色的斑点，背上还有一条黑色的条纹；但是，我不能告诉你他们为什么这样做，我怀疑他们是否能告诉自己1#m,=X9irEq-8vHRj。当然，现在活着的白马身上没有这样的斑点，脊背上也没有这样的线条_xEE0M*N~y。但是在玩具谷，马是很稀少的，而且可能没有人见过白马；因此，他们不得不竭尽所能，有一次，毫无疑问，在远离家乡的地方，一个有着丰富想象力的雕刻家给他的马画了这样一幅画，从那以后，他所有的后代，那些和他一样对白马一无所知的人，也都把它们画成那样了9G[5@kole9wB。