邦娓的兔子

◇ Fiona 译

有时你处心积虑想去掩饰真相，掩饰自己的过错
和不安，结果反倒可能弄巧成拙。

A friend of mine was sitting in the living
room one day when his cat dragged in a
little"gift"in its mouth-a dead animal of
some sort. Taking a closer look, he was dismayed
to recognize the dead animal to be a bunny that
belonged to a little girl who lived next door. Her
name was Bonny. My friend felt terrible, believing
Ms cat had killed Bonny's bunny.

My quick-thinking friend came up with a plan.
Removing from the cat's mouth the dead animal,
which by now was a dirty mess, he put it in the
kitchen sink. With a little warm water and some
shampoo, he tried to clean up the dead bunny as
best he could. Then he took a hair dryer and blow-
dried the bunny until it tooked pretty good.

Finally, he took the dead bunny out to the
neighbor's rabbit and placed it back in the
cage. He kind of it up so that he looked very
natural there in its box.

The next morning, he looked out the window
and noticed a crowd of people gathered around the
rabbit hutch. Everyone seemed to be talking and
pointing. He decided to go over and act like any
normal curious neighbor and find out what was
going on.

When he got there, Bonny's mother said to
my ffiend,"You won't believe what has happened!
t': miracle! Bonny's bunny passed away a few

o. and we buried that little bunny right over

有一天，我的一个朋友正坐在客厅
他家的猫叼着一个"礼物。进了屋子
看起来徐是某种动物的尸体。他凑近虞
儿一看，惊愕地发现只死掉的动物丑
是隔壁名叫邦妮的小女孩养的兔子。羽
朋友心生恐惧，他确信是自己的猫皂
死了邦妮的兔子。

思维敏捷的朋友马上想到一个计划
他从猫的口中夺过脏兮兮的死兔子，
它丢进盥洗池，用温水和洗发露将它溯
得尽可能地干净。接着他拿来一个吹乒
机吹干兔毛，直到兔子有了点看相。

最后，朋友带着兔子的尸体走到刮
居家兔子的小屋前，将它放回笼子。刊
还把兔子的毛捋得蓬松些，好让它在锁
子里看起来自然一点。

第二天早上，他看向窗外，发现
群人聚集在兔笼边。似乎每个人都在指
指点点，议论纷纷。他决定装成一个充
满好奇的普通邻居，走过去一探究竟。
当他走到儿时，邦妮的妈妈对他
说。你肯定不会相信发生了什么!这简
直是个奇迹啊!邦妮的兔子几天前死了，
我们把它埋在了那边······"