DUNCAN’S BIRD TENANTS
邓肯的鸟房客
Ernest Harold Baynes
作者：欧内斯特·哈罗德·贝恩斯
Mr. Rutledge told you that birds and animals will come to live with us if we give them a home. Duncan, a fifth-grade boy, found that Mr. Rutledge was right.
拉特里奇先生告诉你，如果我们给鸟儿和动物一个家，它们就会来和我们一起生活。邓肯，一个五年级的男孩，发现拉特里奇先生是对的。
It was the fifteenth of March, and Duncan was exactly eleven years old. His parents had given him a tool chest for a birthday present, and as he walked proudly out of the back door into the morning sunshine, he was wondering what he should make first with the new tools. He had hardly gone as far as the pump when he heard a soft, gurgling bird voice from the old apple tree in the yard, and a bluebird fluttered down almost to his feet. In an instant he decided to make a bird house, and he walked off to find his father and talk the matter over with him.
那是3月15日，邓肯正好11岁。他的父母给了他一个工具箱作为生日礼物，当他自豪地走出后门走向清晨的阳光时，他在想他应该先用这些新工具做什么。他刚走到抽水机旁，就听到院子里那棵老苹果树上传来一种轻柔的、汩汩作响的鸟叫声，一只蓝知更鸟几乎飞到了他的脚上。他立刻决定建造一个鸟屋，于是他走开去找他的父亲，并讨论了此事。
