XXXIV. THAT OF THE FEMALE GORILLY.

 Och! Oi can't remember roightly

Phwat exactly waz the name

Of the gintleman phwat did it,

But Oi read it all the same—

How he lived insoide a cage, sor

('Twas a moighty strong consarn),

In the middle of the forest,

Monkey language for to larn.

If he larned to spake it roightly

Oi can't say, sor, yis or no;

But he left the cage behoind him,

That for sartin sure Oi know;

For Oi saw it there mesilf, sor—

If ye loike Oi'll tell yez how.

'Tis a moighty cur'ous story

That Oi'm tellin' of yez now.

'Tis some many years agone, sor,

Oi forget phwy Oi waz sint

With the great explorin' party,

But they axed me,—an' Oi wint.

An' the forests that we passed through,

An' the rivers that we crossed,

Phwat with one thing an' another

Ivery man but me waz lost.

But Oi still kept on explorin',

Walkin' by mesilf for moiles,

An' a-swimmin' over rivers,

Filled with hungry crocodoiles,

Till wan¹ day a big gorilly

Oi saw standin' in the road,

And, phwen Oi saw the cratur,

"Och, bedad!" Oi cried, "Oi'm blow'd."

For Oi took him for a Christian².

Dressed in plant'in leaves and things,

With a bonnet³ on his head, sor,

An' around his neck some rings

Ov berries from the trees, sor,

An', sez Oi, "It seems to me,

By the manner of his dressin',

It's most loikely he's a she."

She waz that, an' by the same, sor,

When Oi bowed and raised me hat,

She jist flung⁴ her arms around me,

And then down beside me sat.

Oi could see she'd fell in love, sor,

An' Oi came all over hot,

For a big female gorilly

'S worse than any Hottentot.

 

An' Oi rasoned with her thus, sor:

"Oi can't marry yez, becaze

Oi've wan woife in Ballyhooly,

An' another wan that waz

Me woife up in Killarney;

If Oi marry yez, ye see,

They'll call it bigamy, perhaps,

Or trigonometry."

But she didn't understand, sor,

An' she stayed with me all day,

An' she growled⁵ an' showed her teeth, sor,

When Oi tried to get away;

Then she led me to her home, sor—

It waz made insoide the cage,

(That the gintleman Oi told yez ov

Had left there, Oi'll engage.)

"An' ye mane to shut me up in that,

Ye ugly great gorilly?"

Thinks Oi. "Bedad! ye won't, thin.

D'ye take me for a silly?"

So when she opens wide the door,

Oi steps asoide politely;

She walks insoide, Oi shuts the door,

An' fastens it up toightly.

An' a moighty lucky thing it waz

Oi fastened her up so, sor;

What would have happened otherwise

Oi really do not know, sor.

But Oi left her far behind me,

Still a-yellin' in her rage,

An' if the gintleman goes back,

He'll find her—in the cage.

1 wan   

(wide area network)广域网

参考例句：

• The shared connection can be an Ethernet,wireless LAN,or wireless WAN connection.提供共享的网络连接可以是以太网、无线局域网或无线广域网。

2 Christian   

adj.基督教徒的；n.基督教徒

参考例句：

• They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
• His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。

3 bonnet   

n.无边女帽；童帽

参考例句：

• The baby's bonnet keeps the sun out of her eyes.婴孩的帽子遮住阳光，使之不刺眼。
• She wore a faded black bonnet garnished with faded artificial flowers.她戴着一顶褪了色的黑色无边帽，帽上缀着褪了色的假花。

4 flung   

（尤指生气地）扔( fling的过去式和过去分词 )； 猛动（身体或身体部位）； 粗暴地（向某人）说； 气势汹汹地（对某人）说

参考例句：

• expeditions to the far-flung corners of the world 去世界偏远地方的探险
• Someone had flung a brick through the window. 有人把一块砖扔进了窗户。

5 growled   

v.（动物）发狺狺声， （雷）作隆隆声( growl的过去式和过去分词 )；低声咆哮着说

参考例句：

• \"They ought to be birched, \" growled the old man. 老人咆哮道：“他们应受到鞭打。” 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He growled out an answer. 他低声威胁着回答。 来自《简明英汉词典》