the little hen and the other four had gone away in the hunter's game bag. 妈妈和其它四个孩子已进了猎物口袋。

　　Bob-white Meets Disaster 山齿鹑遇到灾难

　　One morning in midwinter the small boy who had gone to the pasture that night with Old Ben 隆冬的一天早上，那名和老人本晚上一起去牧场找鹑的小男孩

　　to search for the quail awoke to find the world ice-clad and snow-bound and in the clutch of a terrible freeze. 醒来后发现一片白雪皑皑的世界，整个世界都结了冰。

　　The windows were so clouded with frost that he could not see out until he had melted the frost with his breath. 窗户上结了霜他什么也看不见，他用哈气将霜散去。

　　When he had cleared a window, he cried aloud with grief, for there upon the window sill, 当窗户清晰可见后，他在窗台上悲痛地大叫起来，

　　huddled close to the glass, was the stiff form of his Bob-White. 他的山齿鹑紧贴在玻璃上，它被冻得结结实实。

　　Poor little Bob-White; he had escaped the hawk, the owl, the weasel, the fox, the raccoon, and the hunter, 可怜的山齿鹑，他逃脱了老鹰、猫头鹰、鼬鼠、狐狸、浣熊以及猎手的毒手，

　　but the great freeze had caught him, so near and yet so far from cover. 但它却没能躲过冰冻，它离遮蔽处其实很近，或许又非常远。