寓言__Robert Louis Stevenson.pdf

www.ChineseA 英文名著3000 本 中文在线出品 Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson 1 www.ChineseA 英文名著3000 本 中文在线出品 I. - THE PERSONS OF THE TALE. AFTER the 32nd chapter of TREASURE ISLAND, two of the puppets strolled out to have a pipe before business should begin again, and met in an open place not far from the story. Good-morning, Capn, said the first, with a man-o-war salute, and a beaming countenance. Ah, Silver! grunted the other. Youre in a bad way, Silver. Now, Capn Smollett, remonstrated Silver, dooty is dooty, as I knows, and none better; but were off dooty now; and I cant see no call to keep up the morality business. Youre a damned rogue, my man, said the Captain. 2 www.ChineseA 英文名著3000 本 中文在线出品 Come, come, Capn, be just, returned the other. Theres no call to be angry with me in earnest. Im ony a charater in a sea story. I dont really exist. Well, I dont really exist either, says the Captain, which seems to meet that. I wouldnt set no limits to what a virtuous charater might consider argument, responded Silver. But Im the villain of this tale, I am; and speaking as one sea-faring man to another, what I want to know is, whats the odds? Were you never taught your catechism? said the Captain. Dont you know theres such a thing as an Author? Such a thing as a Author? returned John, derisively. And who bettern me? And the pint is, if the Author made you, he made Long John, and he made Hands, and