南方的每个镇子上都有一个,我们那儿也不例外。有一年,我和姐姐每天一放学就去开电视看《鼠剑客》,然后跟另外几个小孩一起到我们在附近搭的树上小屋里去玩“皇帝见臣民”的游戏,小屋建在街那头的一片空地上;末了,当黄昏降临,我们知道母亲马上就要叫我们回家吃晚饭时,我们就去那幢摇摇欲坠的大房子,看住在里面的疯女人。通常,她正在吃她的晚饭,总是金枪鱼和青豆沙拉,她一声不吭地坐在她的光棍儿子约翰· There is one in every town in the South, and we are no exception here. One year, my sister and I went to school once a day to turn on the TV and watch the “Sword-Keeper.” Then we went to the tree-lined tree house in the vicinity with the other children to play the game “The Emperor see the subjects,” and the lodge was built in the street At the end, when dusk came, and we knew my mother was about to call us home for dinner, we went to the crumbling big house and the mad woman inside. Often she is eating her supper, always a tuna and green bean salad, and she sits quietly on her bachelor son John