Arnold followed Eugie down the slope, stealing, as his brother did, from one stock of wheat to another. Eugie paused before climbing through the wire fence that divided the wheatfield from the marshy pasture(牧场) around the lake. They were screened from the ducks by the trees along the lake’s edge.

　　“If you hit your duck, you want me to go in after it ?” Eugie said.

　　“If you want.” Arnold said.

　　Eugie lowered his eyelids, “You’d drown before you got it, the legs of yours are so weak.” He said contemptuously(轻蔑地)。

　　He shoveled the tub under the fence and, pressing down the centre wire, climbed through into the pasture.

　　Arnold pressed down the bottom wire, thrust a leg through and leaned forward to bring the other leg after. His rifle caught on the wire and he pulled at it. The air was rocked by the sound of the shot. Feeling foolish, he lifted his face, baring it to an expected shower of dersision(嘲弄)from his brother. But Eugie did not turn around.Instead, from his crouching position, he fell into his knees and then pitched forward onto his face. The ducks rose up crying from the lake, cleared the mountain background and beat away northward across the pale sky.

　　Amold squatted beside his brother. Eugie seemed to be climbing the earth, as if the earth ran up and down, and when he found he couldn’t scale it he lay still.

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