A Trip in Midget Land

By  Zhongwanting

 It was Monday. The sun was shining brightly in the blue sky. The sky was as blue as the clear water. There were white clouds in the beautiful sky. Everything was lovely. Oh, what a beautiful morning!

 Linda, a forth grader, was walking slowly through the little path to her school. The warm sunshine made the birds happy. They flew about above Linda and sat on the pretty flowers under the trees. Linda often stops to hear the birds singing, admire the beauty of the flowers and smell the fragrance of them. Maybe she was a little giddy so she thought she was late. She didn’t stop to greet to the little creatures.

‘Linda! You’re so early today! Why?’ someone cried.

 Linda turned round and saw her friend, Jenny, walking tardily behind, waving to her. She was surprised.

‘Oh, well, I’m so late!’ Linda sighed. ‘It’s 8:30 now!’

‘But it’s only 7:00! You’re dizzy or your watch is.’ Jenny said, walking up to her. ‘What’s the matter? You look tired.’

‘I had a great dream last night, very great.’

‘Yes?’ said Jenny, looking very curious.

‘Let me tell you about it. It sounds interesting, too.’ Linda smiled and told jenny her dream.

 Linda was sitting at her little brown desk alone. Everyone was asleep in the house, but she was still working on her composition. She had been thinking and working on it all day, but she had not finished it yet. Linda put down her pen, looked at her cat, Kitty, and yawned. Then, she closed her exercise book and looked through the window. The houses, trees, schools and rivers outside was dim, because it was so dark. Linda stood up and glanced at the clock on the wall: it was one o’clock.

 “well, it’s too late. I’m so sleepy that I can’t open my eyes! I think I should take a nap, then, I can write out this article.’ She stood up. ‘OK. I shall just finish it tomorrow. Oh, I hate it.’ A glowworm passed by, but she was too tired to play with it. ‘is it too wet that made me weary, or, I’ll have some water?’

  Linda lay on her bed when she heard a strange noise. ‘What’s that? Bugs? Mice?’ she whispered to herself, and jumped up at once. She took a stick and bent down… There, near the bed, stood two mice, one was thin and the other one was very fat. They were talking.

‘she is the right person! Will Gracy be happy?’

‘Absolutely. She is so beautiful, thin, tall and white. Exactly the best bridesmaid in the country.’

‘Shh. Be quite. Start now.’

 they became silent. Linda walked toward them and snatched them quickly. The mice were astonished, but they were calm soon afterwards.

‘What are you doing?’ Linda asked angrily.

‘We have no ill-willed purpose.’ The fat mouse smiled and said. ‘Set us free, please.’

 Linda grabbed them tightly. ‘Well, we weren’t talking about you. Now, set us free. I’ll give you a sweet.’

 Linda took the sweet and ate it. Then, she put the mice on the floor. Suddenly, she felt uncomfortable. She looked up. My goodness! The desk and bed were so large and the mice were as big as she was!’ I’ve been cheated by them`!’ she said, and shouted at the mice sulkily, “What do you want for me?’

…………

    广州市农林下路小学  四年（3）班  钟琬婷

译文：                

矮人国历险记

 星期一，太阳公公发出的光芒照耀着大地，天空就像清澈的水一样蓝，蓝天上有些许白云飘浮着，一切都是那么可爱，多美好的早晨啊！

 四年级的学生琳达正慢慢地走在去往学校的小路上。温暖的阳光使小鸟也觉得十分开心，它们在琳达的头上盘旋着，停在树下的鲜花上。琳达时常停下来，倾听着小鸟的歌唱，欣赏着美丽的花朵，花儿们散发的清香扑鼻而来。她有点昏昏沉沉，她想她恐怕要迟到了，便加快了脚步，来不及停下向这些小家伙致意。

 “琳达，你今天怎么这么早就来了？”一个声音叫道。

 琳达转身看到她的朋友詹妮慢慢地朝她走来，招着手，很奇怪的样子。

 “不是吧，我来晚了！”琳达说道，“现在8∶30了！”

 “但是现在才7点啊！是你晕了头还是你的表快了？”詹妮走上前几步，又说道，“你怎么了？看起来很疲倦的样子。”

 “我昨晚做了一个很奇特的梦！的确很奇特。”

 “什么梦？”詹妮奇怪地问。

 “让我来说给你听听吧，这的确很有趣。”琳达笑着告诉了詹妮这个故事——

 琳达一个人坐在她的棕色小桌子旁，所有的人都睡了，只有她还在写着作业。她已经写了一整天了，可直到现在还没有完成。琳达放下笔，看着她的小猫凯蒂，打着呵欠，然后合上作业本，看着窗外。外面实在是太黑了，房屋、树、小河、学校都是那么模糊。琳达站了起来，看了看墙上的钟，1点了。

 “现在实在是太晚了，我困得都睁不开眼睛了，我想我应该小睡一会儿，然后我一定会完成这篇文章的。”她站了起来，“好吧，我明天应该可以完成的，哦，真讨厌啊！”这时又一只萤火虫飞了过去，但是她实在太累了，没有心思和它玩。“是因为空气太潮湿了使我感到疲倦呢，还是我应该喝点儿水了呢？”

 琳达躺在床上听到了一个奇怪的声音。“那是什么声音呢，是虫还是老鼠？”她自言自语道，立刻跳了起来。她拿起一根棍棒，搜寻着……在那儿，就在床边上，站着两只老鼠，一个很瘦，一个却很胖。它们正在讲着话。

 “她就是那个人，葛蕾茜会开心吗？”

 “当然了，她是那么漂亮，瘦而高，而且她还很白，是这个国家最漂亮的伴娘了。”

 “嘘，小声点儿，我们开始吧！”

 然后是一片寂静。琳达走向它们，并且很快就抓住了它们。那两只老鼠开始很惊奇，但是很快就平静下来了。

 “你们来干什么？”琳达生气地问。

 “我们没有恶意。”那只胖老鼠笑着说，“放了我们吧！”

 琳达拽得更紧了。它们说：“好吧，我们没有谈关于你的事，你把我们放了吧，我会给你糖吃的。”

 琳达拿过糖来并且把它吃了，然后她把老鼠们放在了地板上。突然，她感到很不舒服，她向上看，哦，上帝啊！床和桌子都变得如此之大，就连老鼠也变得和她一样大了。“我被它们骗了！”她说，并且向那两只老鼠生气地叫道，“你们想对我干什么？”

……