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SHERWOOD ANDERSON
THE EGG
(excerpt)
My father was, I am sure, intended by nature
to be a cheerful, kindly man.
Until he was thirtyfour...
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Подборка опубликована на сайте о переводе и для переводчиков «Думать вслух»
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thinkaloud.
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SHERWOOD ANDERSON
THE EGG
(excerpt)
My father was, I am sure, intended by nature
to be a cheerful, kindly man.
Until he was thirtyfour years old he worked as a farm-hand for a man
named Thomas Butterworth whose place lay near
the town of Bidwell, Ohio.
He had then a horse of
his own and on Saturday evenings drove into town
to spend a few hours in social intercourse with
other farm-hands.
In town he drank several glasses
of beer and stood about in Ben Head’s saloon –
crowded on Saturday evenings with visiting farmhands.
Songs were sung and glasses thumped on
the bar.
At ten o’clock father drove home along a
lonely country road, made his horse comfortable
for the night and himself went to bed, quite happy
in his position in life.
He had at that time no notion of trying to rise in the world.
It was in the spring of his thirty-fifth year
that father married my moth
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