我的这位朋友天真可爱地笑了，并且客气地拒绝道：“你看，你画的不是小羊，是头公羊，还有犄角呢。”

So then I did my drawing over once more.

于是我又重新画了一张。

But it was rejected too, just like the others.

这副画同前几副一样又被拒绝了。

"This one is too old. I want a sheep that will live a long time."

“这一只太老了。我想要一只能活得长的羊。”

By this time my patience was exhausted, because I was in a hurry to start taking my engine apart. So I tossed off this drawing. And I threw out an explanation with it.

我不耐烦了。因为我急于要检修发动机，于是就草草画了这张画，并且匆匆地对他说道：

"This is only his box. The sheep you asked for is inside."

“这是一只箱子，你要的羊就在里面。”

I was very surprised to see a light break over the face of my young judge:

这时我十分惊奇地看到我的这位小评判员喜笑颜开。他说：

"That is exactly the way I wanted it！ Do you think that this sheep will have to have a great deal of grass？"

“这正是我想要的，……你说这只羊需要很多草吗？”

"Why？"

“为什么问这个呢？”

"Because where I live everything is very small…"

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