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excessive thinness. His placid face and regular breathing
showed that he was fast asleep. Beside him lay a little child,

with her round white arms encircling his brown sinewy neck,
and her golden-haired head resting upon the breast of his
velveteen tunic. Her rosy lips were parted, showing the
regular line of snow-white teeth within, and a playful smile
played over her infantile features. Her plump little white

legs terminating in white socks and neat shoes with shining
buckles, offered a strange contrast to the long shrivelled
members of her companion. On the ledge of rock above this

strange couple there stood three solemn buzzards, who, at
the sight of the new comers uttered raucous screams of
disappointment and flapped sullenly away.

在这荒山顶上的一小块平地上，有一块单独的大石头，在石头旁

躺着一个高大的男子，他须发很长，且面容刚毅，但形容枯槁。从他
那安详的面容和均匀的呼吸可以看出，他睡得很熟。他的身旁睡着一

个小女孩，小女孩又圆又白的小手臂搂着大人又黑又瘦的脖子，她那
披着金发的小脑袋倚在这个穿着棉绒上衣的男人胸上。她红红的小嘴

微微张开着，露着两排整齐、雪白的牙齿，满含稚气的脸上带着顽皮
的微笑。她又白又胖的腿上穿着白色短袜和带着闪亮扣子的干净鞋

子，这些和她伙伴长而干瘦的手足形成奇异的对比。有三只虎视眈眈

的秃鹫立在这对怪人头顶的岩石上，他们一见另外的人们来到，便发
出一阵失望的啼声，无可奈何地飞走了。

The cries of the foul birds awoke the two sleepers who
stared about them in bewilderment. The man staggered to
his feet and looked down upon the plain which had been so
desolate when sleep had overtaken him, and which was now
traversed by this enormous body of men and of beasts. His

face assumed an expression of incredulity as he gazed, and
he passed his boney hand over his eyes. "This is what they
call delirium, I guess," he muttered. The child stood beside

him, holding on to the skirt of his coat, and said nothing but