16 Dickon laughed so that he was obliged tostifle the sound by putting his arm over his mouth. "I know tha' thinks I'm a queerlad," he said, "but I think tha' art th' queerest little lass I ever saw." Then Mary did a strange thing. She leaned forward and asked him a question she had never dreamed of asking any one before. And she tried to ask it in Yorkshire because that was his lan- guage, and in India a native was always pleased if you knew his speech. "Does tha' like me?" she said. "Eh!" he answeredheartily, "that I does. I likes thee wonderful, an' so does th' robin, I do believe!" "That's two, then," said Mary. "That's two for me." And then they began to work harder than ever and more joyfully. Mary wasstartledand sorry when she heard the big clock in the courtyard strike the hour of her midday dinner. "I shall have to go," she saidmournfully. "And you will have to go too, won't you?" Dickongrinned. "My dinner's easy to carry about with me," he said. "Mother always lets me put a bit o' somethin' in my pocket." smother, choke ============================================= lad - boy, lass - girl heartily - sincerely
17 He picked up his coat from the grass and brought out of a pocket a lumpy little bundle tied up in a quite clean, coarse, blue and white handkerchief. It held two thick pieces of bread with a slice of something laid between them. "It's oftenest naught but bread," he said, "but I've got a fine slice o' fat bacon with it today." Mary thought it looked a queer dinner, but he seemed ready to enjoy it. "Run on an' get thy victuals," he said. "I'll be done with mine first. I'll get some more work done before I start back home." He sat down with his back against a tree. "I'll call th' robin up," he said, "and give him th' rind o' th' bacon to peck at. They likes a bit o' fat wonderful." ============================================== victuals - 음식
18 Mary could scarcely bear to leave him. Suddenly it seemed as if he might be a sort of wood fairy who might be gone when she came into the garden again. He seemed too good to be true. She went slowly half-way to the door in the wall and then she stopped and went back. "Whatever happens, you--you never would tell?" she said. His poppy-colored cheeks were distended with his first big bite of bread and bacon, but he managed to smile encouragingly. red, rosy ---- swell, bulge, expand "If tha' was a missel thrush an' showed me where thy nest was, does tha' think I'd tell any one? Not me," he said. "Tha' art as safe as a missel thrush." And she was quite sure she was. ================================================ fairy - barely poppy - 양귀비 - red, rosy missel(mistle) thrush - 겨우살이개똥지빠귀
