Once a day a cheap, gaudy packet arrived upward from St. Louis, and another downward from Keokuk. Before these events, the day was glorious with expectancy; after them, the day was a dead and empty thing. Not only the boys, but the whole village, felt this. After all these years I can picture that old time to myself now, just as it was then 去书内

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    每天都有一艘廉价花哨的邮船从下游圣路易斯开过来,另一艘则从上游基奥卡克驶来。船只抵达之前,日子充满美妙的期待。船只离开以后,日子又变得沉闷无聊。不只孩子们,整个村子都是同样的感觉。这么多年过去了,当时的情景仍历历在目。

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