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Chapter One. The Hunters.
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It was on a cold winter morning long ago, that Robin1 Gore2, a bold hunter of the backwoods of America, entered his parlour and sat him down to breakfast.
Robin’s parlour was also his dining-room, and his drawing-room, besides being his bedroom and his kitchen. In fact, it was the only room in his wooden hut, except a small apartment, opening off it, which was a workshop and lumber-room.
Robin’s family consisted of himself, and his wife, and his son Roy, who was twelve years of age—and his daughter Nelly, who was eight, or thereabout. In addition to these, his household comprised a nephew, Walter and an Irishman, Larry O’Dowd. The former was tall, strong, fearless, and twenty. The latter was stout3, short, powerful, and forty.
The personal history of Robin Gore, to the point at which we take it up, runs briefly4 thus:—
He had been born in a backwood’s settlement, had grown up and married in the little hamlet in which he had been born, and hunted around it contentedly5 until he was forty years of age. But, as population increased, he became restive6. He disliked restraint; resolved to take his wife and family into the wilderness7 and after getting his nephew and an Irish adventurer to agree to accompany him, carried his resolution into effect.
He travelled several hundreds of miles into the woods—beyond the most remote settlement—built three wooden huts, surrounded them with a tall stockade8, set up a flagstaff in the centre thereof, and styled the whole affair, “Fort Enterprise.”
“I’m sorry to bring you to such a lonesome spot, Molly, my dear,” said Robin, as he sat on the trunk of a fallen tree on the afternoon of the day on which he arrived at the scene of his future home; “it’ll be rayther tryin’ at first, but you’ll soon get used to it, and we won’t be bothered hereaway wi’ all the new-fangled notions o’ settlement folk. We’ll dwell in the free wilderness, where there are no tyrannical laws to
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robin
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n.凝血,血污;v.(动物)用角撞伤,用牙刺破;缝以补裆;顶 | |
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briefly
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adv.简单地,简短地 | |
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contentedly
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adv.心满意足地 | |
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restive
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adj.不安宁的,不安静的 | |
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wilderness
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n.杳无人烟的一片陆地、水等,荒漠 | |
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stockade
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vt.妨碍,束缚,限制;n.(有盖的)大篮子 | |
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v.憎恶( abhor的过去式和过去分词 );(厌恶地)回避;拒绝;淘汰 | |
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adj.不能渗透的,不能穿过的,不易伤害的 | |
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chamber
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n.恢复,精神爽快,提神之事物;(复数)refreshments:点心,茶点 | |
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n.铲子( shovel的名词复数 );锹;推土机、挖土机等的)铲;铲形部份v.铲子( shovel的第三人称单数 );锹;推土机、挖土机等的)铲;铲形部份 | |
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n. 支柱,曲柄,大括号; v. 绷紧,顶住,(为困难或坏事)做准备 | |
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n.松鸡;v.牢骚,诉苦 | |
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