牙齿和爪子 Gabriel Ernest

牙齿和爪子 Gabriel Ernest 歌词

歌曲	牙齿和爪子 Gabriel Ernest
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[00:05.22]	Gabriel Ernest
[00:11.32]	Cunningham had spent an agreeable week in the country with his friend Van Cheele．
[00:12.91]	Now Van Cheele was driving his guest back to the station．
[00:17.41]	Cunninghamwas unusually quiet on the journey， butVan Cheele talked all the time， so hedid not notice his friend's silence．
[00:25.16]	Suddenly Cunningham spoke．
[00:28.57]	'Thereis a wild animal in your woods，' he said．
[00:31.74]	'A wild animal？ A fewrabbits， perhaps． Nothingvery terrible， surely，'said Van Cheele．
[00:37.96]	Cunningham said nothing．
[00:41.20]	' What did you mean about a wild animal？'asked Van Cheele later， at the station．
[00:46.99]	'Nothing． It was myimagination． Here is the train，'said Cunningham．
[00:52.20]	That afternoon Van Cheele went for a walk through his woods．
[00:57.18]	He knew a little about plants and animals，and he enjoyed walking through the woods around his house and looking at the birds and flowers there．
[01:05.70]	He also enjoyed telling everyone about them aftefwards．
[01:10.30]	Of course，he never saw anything very surprising——until that afternoon．
[01:14.98]	During his walk Van Cheele came to a deep pool under sometall trees．
[01:22.46]	He knew it well： afterall， it was his pool．
[01:27.16]	But today， he saw a boy of about sixteen lying on a large rock beside the pool．
[01:34.91]	The boy was drying his wet， naked brown body in the sun．
[01:44.80]	His hair was wet too，and he had long， golden，wolfish eyes．
[01:49.70]	He turned those eyes towards VanCheele with a look of lazy watchfulness．
[01:53.71]	Van Cheele was surprised to see the boy．
[01:57.21]	Wheredoes this wild－looking boy come from？he thought．
[02:06.69]	Can he be the miller's son？ He disappeared two months ago．
[02:08.38]	People say he fell intothe river．
[02:09.62]	It's a fast-running river，and nobody ever found his body．
[02:12.91]	Iwonder？ But the miller's boy was only a young child? 'What are you doing here？asked Van Cheele．
[02:23.00]	'Enjoying the sunshine， of course，' said the boy．
[02:25.39]	'Where do you live？' 'Here， in these woods． '
[02:30.65]	You can't live in these woods．'said Van Cheele．
[02:33.58]	'They are very nice woods，'said the boy politely．
[02:37.55]	'But where do you sleep at night？' 'I don't sleep at night．
[02:49.60][02:42.53]	That's my busiest time．
[02:50.11]	' Van Cheele began to feel cross．
[02:52.58]	What did the boy mean？ 'What do you eat？ heasked．
[02:53.43]	'Meat，' said the boy．
[02:57.58]	He opened his mouth， showing very white teeth．
[03:13.75]	'Meat？What kind ofmeat？ 'Well， if you must know， I eat rabbits， wild birds，chickens from the farm and young sheep from the hills．
[03:15.69]	I like children when I can find them．
[03:18.50]	But they 're usually too well locked in at night．
[03:19.27]	It's two months since I tasted child meat．
[03:23.75]	' The boy is joking about the children， thought Van Cheele．
[03:28.45]	But perhaps he really is stealing animals from the woods and farms．
[03:32.63]	I must find out more about this．
[03:35.47]	Aloud he said，'You catch rabbits？ You must be joking．
[03:40.30]	Our rabbits are much too fast for you．
[03:42.70]	' 'At night I hunt on four feet，'was the boy's surprising replp．
[03:49.88]	'You mean that you hunt with a dog？'guessed Van Cheele．
[03:53.82]	The boy sat up suddenly and laughed a strange， low laugh．
[03:58.25]	To Van Cheele that laugh sounded horrlbly like a growl．
[04:02.92]	'I don't think any dog would like to hunt with me，'the boy said．
[04:10.32]	'Not at night?' There is something horrible about this boy， thought Van Cheele．
[04:15.18]	I don't like the way he looks and I don't like the way he talks．
[04:19.44]	'I can't let you stay in my woods，'he said aloud．
[04:23.84]	'Very well then—shall I come and live in your house？'repliedte boy．
[04:29.59]	Van Cheele thought about his quiet， tidy house．
[04:33.27]	No， he did not want this strange， wild boy at all．
[04:37.53]	Of course， the boy was joking? but Van Cheele was not amused．
[04:42.47]	'If you don't go away，'he said， 'I shall have to call the police．
[04:48.41]	' At once the boy turned and jumped head-first into the pool．
[04:53.88]	A moment later， his shining， wet body landed half－way up the grassy bank where Van Cheele was standing．
[05:03.30]	Van Cheele stepped backwards．
[05:06.23]	His foot slipped on the wet grass and he fell．
[05:09.24]	He found himself lying on the grass with those wolfish yellow eyes uncomfortably near to his．
[05:16.14]	He felt a moment of horrible fear．
[05:20.59]	The boy laughed again，a laugh that was like the growl of a wild animal，then disapeared among the bushes．
[05:29.92]	'What an extraordinarily wild animal！'said Van Cheele as he picked himself up．
[05:36.66]	And then he remembered Cunning ham's words about a wild animal in his woods．
[05:42.56]	As he walked slowly home， Van Cheele thought about several things which had happened in and around the village recently．
[05:49.88]	Perhaps this boy knows something about them， he thought? Something has been killing rabbits and birds in the woods lately．
[05:59.10]	Something has been stealing the farmer's chickens and carrying off the young sheep fromthe hills．
[06:06.10]	Is it possible that this wildboy is hunting at night with a fast， intelligent dog？The boy talked of hunting on four feet at night?
[06:16.88]	But he also said that dogs did not like to hunt with him at night?Very strange indeed．
[06:24.48]	As Van Cheele walked along， he turned the questions over and over in his head．
[06:30.80]	Suddenly he stopped．
[06:34.40]	The miller's son！ he said to himself．
[06:38.17]	The child disappeared two months ago．
[06:40.76]	Everyone thought that he had fallen into the river and been carried away．
[06:45.31]	But the child's mother did not believe this．
[06:57.78]	She said she had heard a scream—— and the scream came from the hill，a long way away from the water．
[07:03.24]	It's impossible， of course， said Van Cheele to himself．
[07:09.13]	Butthe child disappeared two months ago， and the boy talked about child meat．
[07:12.69]	He was joking， of course?but what a horrible joke！
[07:20.30]	Van Cheele usually talked to his aunt about the birds，plant sand animals he saw on his walks．
[07:21.50]	But today he said nothing．
[07:23.36]	He was an important man in his village．
[07:26.21]	If there was a thief living in his woods， he did not want anyone to know．
[07:31.26]	If people hear about the boy， he thought， perhaps they will want me to pay for their lost chickens and their disappearing sheep．
[07:40.71]	He was unusually quiet at dinner．
[07:44.70]	'What's the matter with you？'joked his aunt．
[07:48.42]	'Did you see a wolf on your walk？'
[07:50.38]	At breakfast the next morning Van Cheele realized that he still felt uncomfortable about yesterday's adventure．
[07:57.28]	I know what I' 11 do， he said to himself．
[08:02.11]	I' 11 take the train to London and I'11 go and see Cunningham．
[08:05.65]	I'11 ask him If he was joking when he said there was a wild animal in my woods．
[08:10.95]	After he had decided this，Van Cheele felt better．
[08:14.96]	He sang a happy little song as he walked to the sitting-room for his morning cigarette．
[08:20.49]	His fat old dog walked beside him．
[08:24.45]	As Van Cheele entered the sitting-room， the song died on his lips and his dog ran away with his tail between his legs．
[08:32.99]	There on the day－bed， with his hands comfortably behind his head， lay the boy from the woods．
[08:40.48]	He was drier than yesterday， but he was still naked．
[08:46.99]	'What are you doing here？ asked Van Cheele angrily．
[08:56.30]	'You told me I couldn't stay in the woods，'said the boy calmly．
[08:59.18]	'But I didn't tell you to come here．
[09:02.46]	What if my aunt sees you？ What will she think？'
[09:04.11]	Van Cheele hurriedly covered his unwanted guest's nakedness with a newspaper．
[09:07.82]	At that moment his aunt entered the room．
[09:10.95]	'This is a poor boy，'explained Van Cheele quickly．
[09:16.70]	'He has lost his way—and lost his memory too．
[09:19.65]	He doesn't know who he is， or where he comes from．
[09:22.98]	' Miss Van Cheele was very interested．
[09:26.34]	'Perhaps his name is on his underclothes，' she said．
[09:30.53]	'He has lost his underclothes too，'said Van Cheele．
[09:34.75]	The newspaper was slipping off the boy's naked body．
[09:38.28]	VanCheele hurried to replace it Miss Van Cheele was a kind old lady．
[09:44.41]	She felt sorry for this naked， helpless child．
[09:47.72]	'We must help him，'she said．
[09:50.90]	She sent the housekeeper to aneighbour's house to borrow some clothes．
[09:55.83]	Soon the boy was clean and tidy， and dressed in shirt，trousers and shoes．
[10:01.85]	Van Cheele thought he looked just as strange and wolfish as before．
[10:07.80]	But Miss Van Chee1e thought he was sweet．
[10:10.46]	'We must give him a name until we know who he really is，'she said．
[10:15.46]	' Gabriel Ernest， I think．
[10:19.25]	Those are nice， suitable names．
[10:22.60]	' Van Cheele agreed．
[10:25.22]	But he was not sure that the boy was a nice， suitableboy．
[10:28.82]	Van Cheele's old dog， when he saw the boy， had run away in fear and would not come back into the house．
[10:35.81]	Van Cheele decided to go and see Cunningham at once．
[10:40.59]	As he got ready to go to the station， his aunt was busily arranging a children's tea party in the church hall．
[10:48.43]	'Gabriel Ernest will help me with the little ones，'she said happily．
[10:53.66]	When Van Cheele got to London， Cunningham did not want to talk at first．
[10:59.59]	You'llthink I'm crazy，' he said．
[11:02.75]	'But what did you see？'asked Van Cheele．'
[11:06.80]	I saw something—somethingunbelievable．
[11:09.82]	On the last evening of myvisit to you I was standing half-hidden in the bushes， watchingthe sun go down．
[11:16.76]	Suddenly I noticed anaked boy．
[11:20.78]	He has been swimming in apool somewhere， I said to myself．
[11:24.49]	He was standing on the hill side and he too was watching the sun go down．
[11:30.62]	Then the sun disappeared behind the hill and its light was gone．
[11:36.41]	At the same moment a very surprising thing happened—the boy disappeared too．'
[11:44.90]	'What？He disappearedjust like that？' said Van Cheeleexcitedly．'
[11:53.93]	No． It was much morehorrible than that．
[11:55.32]	On the open hillside where the boy had been，I saw a large，blackish-grey wolf with long white teeth and yellow eyes．
[12:05.28]	You'll think I'm crazy—' But Van Cheele did not wait．
[12:09.40]	He was running towards the station as fast as he could．
[12:12.87]	He did not know what he could do．
[12:15.34]	I can't send my aunt a message， he thought．Whatcan I say？
[12:18.95]	Gabriel Ernest is a werewolf'？My aunt will think I'm joking．
[12:23.56]	I MUST get home before sundown．
[12:26.51]	He caught his train．
[12:28.17]	With painful slowness it carried him to the station a few miles from his home．
[12:33.61]	He took a taxi to his village．
[12:35.81]	'Take me to the church hall—and hurry！ 'he ordered．
[12:40.96]	Thetaxi drove along the quiet country roads， and the sky turned pink and purple as the sun got lower and lower in the west．
[12:50.31]	His aunt was putting away some uneaten cakes and sandwiches when he arrived．
[12:55.10]	'Where is Gabriel Ernest？'screamed Van Cheele．
[12:59.19]	'He's taking little Jack Toop home，'said his aunt calmly．
[13:03.61]	'It was getting solate．
[13:05.79]	I didn't want to send the dear little boy home alone．
[13:08.63]	Isn't the sky beautiful this evening？'
[13:11.81]	But Van Cheele had no time to talk about the beautiful sky．
[13:15.35]	He ran like the wind down the narrow road that went to the Toops' house．
[13:20.30]	On one side was the fast-running river， on the other was the dark hillside．
[13:26.78]	In a minute I'll catch up with them，Van Cheele thought．
[13:30.88]	Then the sun went down behind the hill and the whole world became grey and cold．
[13:38.59]	Van Cheele heard a short scream of fear， and he knew he was too late．
[13:45.97]	Nobody ever saw little Jack Toop or Gabrid Ernest again．
[13:51.95]	Gabriel Ernest's clothes were found lying in the road．
[13:55.72]	'Poor littler Jack fell into the river，'said Miss Van Cheele．
[14:00.74]	'And dear Gabriel Ernest took off his clothes and jumped into the river to try to save him．
[14:06.18]	' Mrs Toop had eleven other children and did not cry too long for her lost son．
[14:12.59]	But Miss Van Cheele was terribly sad about Gabriel Ernest．
[14:17.50]	'He must have a memorial in the church，'she said．
[14:21.30]	She chose the words herself：GABRIEL ERNEST，ANUNKNOWN BOY WHO BRAVELY GAVE HIS LIFE FOR ANOTHER．
[14:32.11]	Van Cheele usually did what his aunt wanted．
[14:36.23]	Bu the refused to give any money at all for Gabriel Ernest's memorial．

[00:05.22]	Gabriel Ernest
[00:11.32]	Cunningham had spent an agreeable week in the country with his friend Van Cheele
[00:12.91]	Now Van Cheele was driving his guest back to the station
[00:17.41]	Cunninghamwas unusually quiet on the journey, butVan Cheele talked all the time, so hedid not notice his friend' s silence
[00:25.16]	Suddenly Cunningham spoke
[00:28.57]	' Thereis a wild animal in your woods,' he said
[00:31.74]	' A wild animal? A fewrabbits, perhaps Nothingvery terrible, surely,' said Van Cheele
[00:37.96]	Cunningham said nothing
[00:41.20]	' What did you mean about a wild animal?' asked Van Cheele later, at the station
[00:46.99]	' Nothing It was myimagination Here is the train,' said Cunningham
[00:52.20]	That afternoon Van Cheele went for a walk through his woods
[00:57.18]	He knew a little about plants and animals, and he enjoyed walking through the woods around his house and looking at the birds and flowers there
[01:05.70]	He also enjoyed telling everyone about them aftefwards
[01:10.30]	Of course, he never saw anything very surprising until that afternoon
[01:14.98]	During his walk Van Cheele came to a deep pool under sometall trees
[01:22.46]	He knew it well: afterall, it was his pool
[01:27.16]	But today, he saw a boy of about sixteen lying on a large rock beside the pool
[01:34.91]	The boy was drying his wet, naked brown body in the sun
[01:44.80]	His hair was wet too, and he had long, golden, wolfish eyes
[01:49.70]	He turned those eyes towards VanCheele with a look of lazy watchfulness
[01:53.71]	Van Cheele was surprised to see the boy
[01:57.21]	Wheredoes this wild looking boy come from? he thought
[02:06.69]	Can he be the miller' s son? He disappeared two months ago
[02:08.38]	People say he fell intothe river
[02:09.62]	It' s a fastrunning river, and nobody ever found his body
[02:12.91]	Iwonder? But the miller' s boy was only a young child? ' What are you doing here? asked Van Cheele
[02:23.00]	' Enjoying the sunshine, of course,' said the boy
[02:25.39]	' Where do you live?' ' Here, in these woods '
[02:30.65]	You can' t live in these woods' said Van Cheele
[02:33.58]	' They are very nice woods,' said the boy politely
[02:37.55]	' But where do you sleep at night?' ' I don' t sleep at night
[02:49.60][02:42.53]	That' s my busiest time
[02:50.11]	' Van Cheele began to feel cross
[02:52.58]	What did the boy mean? ' What do you eat? heasked
[02:53.43]	' Meat,' said the boy
[02:57.58]	He opened his mouth, showing very white teeth
[03:13.75]	' Meat? What kind ofmeat? ' Well, if you must know, I eat rabbits, wild birds, chickens from the farm and young sheep from the hills
[03:15.69]	I like children when I can find them
[03:18.50]	But they ' re usually too well locked in at night
[03:19.27]	It' s two months since I tasted child meat
[03:23.75]	' The boy is joking about the children, thought Van Cheele
[03:28.45]	But perhaps he really is stealing animals from the woods and farms
[03:32.63]	I must find out more about this
[03:35.47]	Aloud he said,' You catch rabbits? You must be joking
[03:40.30]	Our rabbits are much too fast for you
[03:42.70]	' ' At night I hunt on four feet,' was the boy' s surprising replp
[03:49.88]	' You mean that you hunt with a dog?' guessed Van Cheele
[03:53.82]	The boy sat up suddenly and laughed a strange, low laugh
[03:58.25]	To Van Cheele that laugh sounded horrlbly like a growl
[04:02.92]	' I don' t think any dog would like to hunt with me,' the boy said
[04:10.32]	' Not at night?' There is something horrible about this boy, thought Van Cheele
[04:15.18]	I don' t like the way he looks and I don' t like the way he talks
[04:19.44]	' I can' t let you stay in my woods,' he said aloud
[04:23.84]	' Very well then shall I come and live in your house?' repliedte boy
[04:29.59]	Van Cheele thought about his quiet, tidy house
[04:33.27]	No, he did not want this strange, wild boy at all
[04:37.53]	Of course, the boy was joking? but Van Cheele was not amused
[04:42.47]	' If you don' t go away,' he said, ' I shall have to call the police
[04:48.41]	' At once the boy turned and jumped headfirst into the pool
[04:53.88]	A moment later, his shining, wet body landed half way up the grassy bank where Van Cheele was standing
[05:03.30]	Van Cheele stepped backwards
[05:06.23]	His foot slipped on the wet grass and he fell
[05:09.24]	He found himself lying on the grass with those wolfish yellow eyes uncomfortably near to his
[05:16.14]	He felt a moment of horrible fear
[05:20.59]	The boy laughed again, a laugh that was like the growl of a wild animal, then disapeared among the bushes
[05:29.92]	' What an extraordinarily wild animal!' said Van Cheele as he picked himself up
[05:36.66]	And then he remembered Cunning ham' s words about a wild animal in his woods
[05:42.56]	As he walked slowly home, Van Cheele thought about several things which had happened in and around the village recently
[05:49.88]	Perhaps this boy knows something about them, he thought? Something has been killing rabbits and birds in the woods lately
[05:59.10]	Something has been stealing the farmer' s chickens and carrying off the young sheep fromthe hills
[06:06.10]	Is it possible that this wildboy is hunting at night with a fast, intelligent dog? The boy talked of hunting on four feet at night?
[06:16.88]	But he also said that dogs did not like to hunt with him at night? Very strange indeed
[06:24.48]	As Van Cheele walked along, he turned the questions over and over in his head
[06:30.80]	Suddenly he stopped
[06:34.40]	The miller' s son! he said to himself
[06:38.17]	The child disappeared two months ago
[06:40.76]	Everyone thought that he had fallen into the river and been carried away
[06:45.31]	But the child' s mother did not believe this
[06:57.78]	She said she had heard a scream and the scream came from the hill, a long way away from the water
[07:03.24]	It' s impossible, of course, said Van Cheele to himself
[07:09.13]	Butthe child disappeared two months ago, and the boy talked about child meat
[07:12.69]	He was joking, of course? but what a horrible joke!
[07:20.30]	Van Cheele usually talked to his aunt about the birds, plant sand animals he saw on his walks
[07:21.50]	But today he said nothing
[07:23.36]	He was an important man in his village
[07:26.21]	If there was a thief living in his woods, he did not want anyone to know
[07:31.26]	If people hear about the boy, he thought, perhaps they will want me to pay for their lost chickens and their disappearing sheep
[07:40.71]	He was unusually quiet at dinner
[07:44.70]	' What' s the matter with you?' joked his aunt
[07:48.42]	' Did you see a wolf on your walk?'
[07:50.38]	At breakfast the next morning Van Cheele realized that he still felt uncomfortable about yesterday' s adventure
[07:57.28]	I know what I' 11 do, he said to himself
[08:02.11]	I' 11 take the train to London and I' 11 go and see Cunningham
[08:05.65]	I' 11 ask him If he was joking when he said there was a wild animal in my woods
[08:10.95]	After he had decided this, Van Cheele felt better
[08:14.96]	He sang a happy little song as he walked to the sittingroom for his morning cigarette
[08:20.49]	His fat old dog walked beside him
[08:24.45]	As Van Cheele entered the sittingroom, the song died on his lips and his dog ran away with his tail between his legs
[08:32.99]	There on the day bed, with his hands comfortably behind his head, lay the boy from the woods
[08:40.48]	He was drier than yesterday, but he was still naked
[08:46.99]	' What are you doing here? asked Van Cheele angrily
[08:56.30]	' You told me I couldn' t stay in the woods,' said the boy calmly
[08:59.18]	' But I didn' t tell you to come here
[09:02.46]	What if my aunt sees you? What will she think?'
[09:04.11]	Van Cheele hurriedly covered his unwanted guest' s nakedness with a newspaper
[09:07.82]	At that moment his aunt entered the room
[09:10.95]	' This is a poor boy,' explained Van Cheele quickly
[09:16.70]	' He has lost his way and lost his memory too
[09:19.65]	He doesn' t know who he is, or where he comes from
[09:22.98]	' Miss Van Cheele was very interested
[09:26.34]	' Perhaps his name is on his underclothes,' she said
[09:30.53]	' He has lost his underclothes too,' said Van Cheele
[09:34.75]	The newspaper was slipping off the boy' s naked body
[09:38.28]	VanCheele hurried to replace it Miss Van Cheele was a kind old lady
[09:44.41]	She felt sorry for this naked, helpless child
[09:47.72]	' We must help him,' she said
[09:50.90]	She sent the housekeeper to aneighbour' s house to borrow some clothes
[09:55.83]	Soon the boy was clean and tidy, and dressed in shirt, trousers and shoes
[10:01.85]	Van Cheele thought he looked just as strange and wolfish as before
[10:07.80]	But Miss Van Chee1e thought he was sweet
[10:10.46]	' We must give him a name until we know who he really is,' she said
[10:15.46]	' Gabriel Ernest, I think
[10:19.25]	Those are nice, suitable names
[10:22.60]	' Van Cheele agreed
[10:25.22]	But he was not sure that the boy was a nice, suitableboy
[10:28.82]	Van Cheele' s old dog, when he saw the boy, had run away in fear and would not come back into the house
[10:35.81]	Van Cheele decided to go and see Cunningham at once
[10:40.59]	As he got ready to go to the station, his aunt was busily arranging a children' s tea party in the church hall
[10:48.43]	' Gabriel Ernest will help me with the little ones,' she said happily
[10:53.66]	When Van Cheele got to London, Cunningham did not want to talk at first
[10:59.59]	You' llthink I' m crazy,' he said
[11:02.75]	' But what did you see?' asked Van Cheele'
[11:06.80]	I saw something somethingunbelievable
[11:09.82]	On the last evening of myvisit to you I was standing halfhidden in the bushes, watchingthe sun go down
[11:16.76]	Suddenly I noticed anaked boy
[11:20.78]	He has been swimming in apool somewhere, I said to myself
[11:24.49]	He was standing on the hill side and he too was watching the sun go down
[11:30.62]	Then the sun disappeared behind the hill and its light was gone
[11:36.41]	At the same moment a very surprising thing happened the boy disappeared too'
[11:44.90]	' What? He disappearedjust like that?' said Van Cheeleexcitedly'
[11:53.93]	No It was much morehorrible than that
[11:55.32]	On the open hillside where the boy had been, I saw a large, blackishgrey wolf with long white teeth and yellow eyes
[12:05.28]	You' ll think I' m crazy' But Van Cheele did not wait
[12:09.40]	He was running towards the station as fast as he could
[12:12.87]	He did not know what he could do
[12:15.34]	I can' t send my aunt a message, he thought Whatcan I say?
[12:18.95]	Gabriel Ernest is a werewolf'? My aunt will think I' m joking
[12:23.56]	I MUST get home before sundown
[12:26.51]	He caught his train
[12:28.17]	With painful slowness it carried him to the station a few miles from his home
[12:33.61]	He took a taxi to his village
[12:35.81]	' Take me to the church hall and hurry! ' he ordered
[12:40.96]	Thetaxi drove along the quiet country roads, and the sky turned pink and purple as the sun got lower and lower in the west
[12:50.31]	His aunt was putting away some uneaten cakes and sandwiches when he arrived
[12:55.10]	' Where is Gabriel Ernest?' screamed Van Cheele
[12:59.19]	' He' s taking little Jack Toop home,' said his aunt calmly
[13:03.61]	' It was getting solate
[13:05.79]	I didn' t want to send the dear little boy home alone
[13:08.63]	Isn' t the sky beautiful this evening?'
[13:11.81]	But Van Cheele had no time to talk about the beautiful sky
[13:15.35]	He ran like the wind down the narrow road that went to the Toops' house
[13:20.30]	On one side was the fastrunning river, on the other was the dark hillside
[13:26.78]	In a minute I' ll catch up with them, Van Cheele thought
[13:30.88]	Then the sun went down behind the hill and the whole world became grey and cold
[13:38.59]	Van Cheele heard a short scream of fear, and he knew he was too late
[13:45.97]	Nobody ever saw little Jack Toop or Gabrid Ernest again
[13:51.95]	Gabriel Ernest' s clothes were found lying in the road
[13:55.72]	' Poor littler Jack fell into the river,' said Miss Van Cheele
[14:00.74]	' And dear Gabriel Ernest took off his clothes and jumped into the river to try to save him
[14:06.18]	' Mrs Toop had eleven other children and did not cry too long for her lost son
[14:12.59]	But Miss Van Cheele was terribly sad about Gabriel Ernest
[14:17.50]	' He must have a memorial in the church,' she said
[14:21.30]	She chose the words herself: GABRIEL ERNEST, ANUNKNOWN BOY WHO BRAVELY GAVE HIS LIFE FOR ANOTHER
[14:32.11]	Van Cheele usually did what his aunt wanted
[14:36.23]	Bu the refused to give any money at all for Gabriel Ernest' s memorial

[00:05.22]	Gabriel Ernest
[00:11.32]	Cunningham had spent an agreeable week in the country with his friend Van Cheele
[00:12.91]	Now Van Cheele was driving his guest back to the station
[00:17.41]	Cunninghamwas unusually quiet on the journey, butVan Cheele talked all the time, so hedid not notice his friend' s silence
[00:25.16]	Suddenly Cunningham spoke
[00:28.57]	' Thereis a wild animal in your woods,' he said
[00:31.74]	' A wild animal? A fewrabbits, perhaps Nothingvery terrible, surely,' said Van Cheele
[00:37.96]	Cunningham said nothing
[00:41.20]	' What did you mean about a wild animal?' asked Van Cheele later, at the station
[00:46.99]	' Nothing It was myimagination Here is the train,' said Cunningham
[00:52.20]	That afternoon Van Cheele went for a walk through his woods
[00:57.18]	He knew a little about plants and animals, and he enjoyed walking through the woods around his house and looking at the birds and flowers there
[01:05.70]	He also enjoyed telling everyone about them aftefwards
[01:10.30]	Of course, he never saw anything very surprising until that afternoon
[01:14.98]	During his walk Van Cheele came to a deep pool under sometall trees
[01:22.46]	He knew it well: afterall, it was his pool
[01:27.16]	But today, he saw a boy of about sixteen lying on a large rock beside the pool
[01:34.91]	The boy was drying his wet, naked brown body in the sun
[01:44.80]	His hair was wet too, and he had long, golden, wolfish eyes
[01:49.70]	He turned those eyes towards VanCheele with a look of lazy watchfulness
[01:53.71]	Van Cheele was surprised to see the boy
[01:57.21]	Wheredoes this wild looking boy come from? he thought
[02:06.69]	Can he be the miller' s son? He disappeared two months ago
[02:08.38]	People say he fell intothe river
[02:09.62]	It' s a fastrunning river, and nobody ever found his body
[02:12.91]	Iwonder? But the miller' s boy was only a young child? ' What are you doing here? asked Van Cheele
[02:23.00]	' Enjoying the sunshine, of course,' said the boy
[02:25.39]	' Where do you live?' ' Here, in these woods '
[02:30.65]	You can' t live in these woods' said Van Cheele
[02:33.58]	' They are very nice woods,' said the boy politely
[02:37.55]	' But where do you sleep at night?' ' I don' t sleep at night
[02:49.60][02:42.53]	That' s my busiest time
[02:50.11]	' Van Cheele began to feel cross
[02:52.58]	What did the boy mean? ' What do you eat? heasked
[02:53.43]	' Meat,' said the boy
[02:57.58]	He opened his mouth, showing very white teeth
[03:13.75]	' Meat? What kind ofmeat? ' Well, if you must know, I eat rabbits, wild birds, chickens from the farm and young sheep from the hills
[03:15.69]	I like children when I can find them
[03:18.50]	But they ' re usually too well locked in at night
[03:19.27]	It' s two months since I tasted child meat
[03:23.75]	' The boy is joking about the children, thought Van Cheele
[03:28.45]	But perhaps he really is stealing animals from the woods and farms
[03:32.63]	I must find out more about this
[03:35.47]	Aloud he said,' You catch rabbits? You must be joking
[03:40.30]	Our rabbits are much too fast for you
[03:42.70]	' ' At night I hunt on four feet,' was the boy' s surprising replp
[03:49.88]	' You mean that you hunt with a dog?' guessed Van Cheele
[03:53.82]	The boy sat up suddenly and laughed a strange, low laugh
[03:58.25]	To Van Cheele that laugh sounded horrlbly like a growl
[04:02.92]	' I don' t think any dog would like to hunt with me,' the boy said
[04:10.32]	' Not at night?' There is something horrible about this boy, thought Van Cheele
[04:15.18]	I don' t like the way he looks and I don' t like the way he talks
[04:19.44]	' I can' t let you stay in my woods,' he said aloud
[04:23.84]	' Very well then shall I come and live in your house?' repliedte boy
[04:29.59]	Van Cheele thought about his quiet, tidy house
[04:33.27]	No, he did not want this strange, wild boy at all
[04:37.53]	Of course, the boy was joking? but Van Cheele was not amused
[04:42.47]	' If you don' t go away,' he said, ' I shall have to call the police
[04:48.41]	' At once the boy turned and jumped headfirst into the pool
[04:53.88]	A moment later, his shining, wet body landed half way up the grassy bank where Van Cheele was standing
[05:03.30]	Van Cheele stepped backwards
[05:06.23]	His foot slipped on the wet grass and he fell
[05:09.24]	He found himself lying on the grass with those wolfish yellow eyes uncomfortably near to his
[05:16.14]	He felt a moment of horrible fear
[05:20.59]	The boy laughed again, a laugh that was like the growl of a wild animal, then disapeared among the bushes
[05:29.92]	' What an extraordinarily wild animal!' said Van Cheele as he picked himself up
[05:36.66]	And then he remembered Cunning ham' s words about a wild animal in his woods
[05:42.56]	As he walked slowly home, Van Cheele thought about several things which had happened in and around the village recently
[05:49.88]	Perhaps this boy knows something about them, he thought? Something has been killing rabbits and birds in the woods lately
[05:59.10]	Something has been stealing the farmer' s chickens and carrying off the young sheep fromthe hills
[06:06.10]	Is it possible that this wildboy is hunting at night with a fast, intelligent dog? The boy talked of hunting on four feet at night?
[06:16.88]	But he also said that dogs did not like to hunt with him at night? Very strange indeed
[06:24.48]	As Van Cheele walked along, he turned the questions over and over in his head
[06:30.80]	Suddenly he stopped
[06:34.40]	The miller' s son! he said to himself
[06:38.17]	The child disappeared two months ago
[06:40.76]	Everyone thought that he had fallen into the river and been carried away
[06:45.31]	But the child' s mother did not believe this
[06:57.78]	She said she had heard a scream and the scream came from the hill, a long way away from the water
[07:03.24]	It' s impossible, of course, said Van Cheele to himself
[07:09.13]	Butthe child disappeared two months ago, and the boy talked about child meat
[07:12.69]	He was joking, of course? but what a horrible joke!
[07:20.30]	Van Cheele usually talked to his aunt about the birds, plant sand animals he saw on his walks
[07:21.50]	But today he said nothing
[07:23.36]	He was an important man in his village
[07:26.21]	If there was a thief living in his woods, he did not want anyone to know
[07:31.26]	If people hear about the boy, he thought, perhaps they will want me to pay for their lost chickens and their disappearing sheep
[07:40.71]	He was unusually quiet at dinner
[07:44.70]	' What' s the matter with you?' joked his aunt
[07:48.42]	' Did you see a wolf on your walk?'
[07:50.38]	At breakfast the next morning Van Cheele realized that he still felt uncomfortable about yesterday' s adventure
[07:57.28]	I know what I' 11 do, he said to himself
[08:02.11]	I' 11 take the train to London and I' 11 go and see Cunningham
[08:05.65]	I' 11 ask him If he was joking when he said there was a wild animal in my woods
[08:10.95]	After he had decided this, Van Cheele felt better
[08:14.96]	He sang a happy little song as he walked to the sittingroom for his morning cigarette
[08:20.49]	His fat old dog walked beside him
[08:24.45]	As Van Cheele entered the sittingroom, the song died on his lips and his dog ran away with his tail between his legs
[08:32.99]	There on the day bed, with his hands comfortably behind his head, lay the boy from the woods
[08:40.48]	He was drier than yesterday, but he was still naked
[08:46.99]	' What are you doing here? asked Van Cheele angrily
[08:56.30]	' You told me I couldn' t stay in the woods,' said the boy calmly
[08:59.18]	' But I didn' t tell you to come here
[09:02.46]	What if my aunt sees you? What will she think?'
[09:04.11]	Van Cheele hurriedly covered his unwanted guest' s nakedness with a newspaper
[09:07.82]	At that moment his aunt entered the room
[09:10.95]	' This is a poor boy,' explained Van Cheele quickly
[09:16.70]	' He has lost his way and lost his memory too
[09:19.65]	He doesn' t know who he is, or where he comes from
[09:22.98]	' Miss Van Cheele was very interested
[09:26.34]	' Perhaps his name is on his underclothes,' she said
[09:30.53]	' He has lost his underclothes too,' said Van Cheele
[09:34.75]	The newspaper was slipping off the boy' s naked body
[09:38.28]	VanCheele hurried to replace it Miss Van Cheele was a kind old lady
[09:44.41]	She felt sorry for this naked, helpless child
[09:47.72]	' We must help him,' she said
[09:50.90]	She sent the housekeeper to aneighbour' s house to borrow some clothes
[09:55.83]	Soon the boy was clean and tidy, and dressed in shirt, trousers and shoes
[10:01.85]	Van Cheele thought he looked just as strange and wolfish as before
[10:07.80]	But Miss Van Chee1e thought he was sweet
[10:10.46]	' We must give him a name until we know who he really is,' she said
[10:15.46]	' Gabriel Ernest, I think
[10:19.25]	Those are nice, suitable names
[10:22.60]	' Van Cheele agreed
[10:25.22]	But he was not sure that the boy was a nice, suitableboy
[10:28.82]	Van Cheele' s old dog, when he saw the boy, had run away in fear and would not come back into the house
[10:35.81]	Van Cheele decided to go and see Cunningham at once
[10:40.59]	As he got ready to go to the station, his aunt was busily arranging a children' s tea party in the church hall
[10:48.43]	' Gabriel Ernest will help me with the little ones,' she said happily
[10:53.66]	When Van Cheele got to London, Cunningham did not want to talk at first
[10:59.59]	You' llthink I' m crazy,' he said
[11:02.75]	' But what did you see?' asked Van Cheele'
[11:06.80]	I saw something somethingunbelievable
[11:09.82]	On the last evening of myvisit to you I was standing halfhidden in the bushes, watchingthe sun go down
[11:16.76]	Suddenly I noticed anaked boy
[11:20.78]	He has been swimming in apool somewhere, I said to myself
[11:24.49]	He was standing on the hill side and he too was watching the sun go down
[11:30.62]	Then the sun disappeared behind the hill and its light was gone
[11:36.41]	At the same moment a very surprising thing happened the boy disappeared too'
[11:44.90]	' What? He disappearedjust like that?' said Van Cheeleexcitedly'
[11:53.93]	No It was much morehorrible than that
[11:55.32]	On the open hillside where the boy had been, I saw a large, blackishgrey wolf with long white teeth and yellow eyes
[12:05.28]	You' ll think I' m crazy' But Van Cheele did not wait
[12:09.40]	He was running towards the station as fast as he could
[12:12.87]	He did not know what he could do
[12:15.34]	I can' t send my aunt a message, he thought Whatcan I say?
[12:18.95]	Gabriel Ernest is a werewolf'? My aunt will think I' m joking
[12:23.56]	I MUST get home before sundown
[12:26.51]	He caught his train
[12:28.17]	With painful slowness it carried him to the station a few miles from his home
[12:33.61]	He took a taxi to his village
[12:35.81]	' Take me to the church hall and hurry! ' he ordered
[12:40.96]	Thetaxi drove along the quiet country roads, and the sky turned pink and purple as the sun got lower and lower in the west
[12:50.31]	His aunt was putting away some uneaten cakes and sandwiches when he arrived
[12:55.10]	' Where is Gabriel Ernest?' screamed Van Cheele
[12:59.19]	' He' s taking little Jack Toop home,' said his aunt calmly
[13:03.61]	' It was getting solate
[13:05.79]	I didn' t want to send the dear little boy home alone
[13:08.63]	Isn' t the sky beautiful this evening?'
[13:11.81]	But Van Cheele had no time to talk about the beautiful sky
[13:15.35]	He ran like the wind down the narrow road that went to the Toops' house
[13:20.30]	On one side was the fastrunning river, on the other was the dark hillside
[13:26.78]	In a minute I' ll catch up with them, Van Cheele thought
[13:30.88]	Then the sun went down behind the hill and the whole world became grey and cold
[13:38.59]	Van Cheele heard a short scream of fear, and he knew he was too late
[13:45.97]	Nobody ever saw little Jack Toop or Gabrid Ernest again
[13:51.95]	Gabriel Ernest' s clothes were found lying in the road
[13:55.72]	' Poor littler Jack fell into the river,' said Miss Van Cheele
[14:00.74]	' And dear Gabriel Ernest took off his clothes and jumped into the river to try to save him
[14:06.18]	' Mrs Toop had eleven other children and did not cry too long for her lost son
[14:12.59]	But Miss Van Cheele was terribly sad about Gabriel Ernest
[14:17.50]	' He must have a memorial in the church,' she said
[14:21.30]	She chose the words herself: GABRIEL ERNEST, ANUNKNOWN BOY WHO BRAVELY GAVE HIS LIFE FOR ANOTHER
[14:32.11]	Van Cheele usually did what his aunt wanted
[14:36.23]	Bu the refused to give any money at all for Gabriel Ernest' s memorial

牙齿和爪子 Gabriel Ernest 歌词

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