| 1. | It was as bright as glory , and you d have a little glimpse of treetops a - plunging about away off yonder in the storm , hundreds of yards further than you could see before ; dark as sin again in a second , and now you d hear the thunder let go with an awful crash , and then go rumbling , grumbling , tumbling , down the sky towards the under side of the world , like rolling empty barrels down stairs - where it s long stairs and they bounce a good deal , you know
天亮得耀眼，只见千万棵树梢在暴风雨中翻滚，和往常不同，连几百码以外也看得清清楚楚。再一刹那间，又是一片漆黑。这时只听得雷声猛烈地炸开，轰隆隆呼噜噜从天上滚下来，朝地底下滚过去，活象一批空空的木桶在楼梯上往下滚，而且楼梯又长，知道吧，就连滚带跳，不亦乐乎。 |
