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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