After all these years I can picture that old time to myself now, just as it was then: 尽管这么多年过去了，可到今天，我还能在心中回想当日的情景，仿佛回到了过去。 My father was a justice of the peace, and I supposed he possessed the power
The Boys' Ambition 孩子们的志愿 When I was a boy, there was but one permanent ambition among my comrades in our village on the west bank of the Mississippi River. That was, to be a steamboatman. 在密西西比河西岸的小镇
And whenever his boat was laid up he would come home and swell around the town in his blackest and greasiest clothes, so that nobody could help remembering that he was a steamboatman; and he used all
