欧亚客服＂Why—why—＂ he stammered, ＂I must have
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"Why—why—" he stammered, "I must have forgotten him." Of course he was ashamed of himself and hurried a man off to Hannibal, on a swift horse, where Sam was found hungry and frightened, wandering through the locked house.
Sam was sent to school when he was five. He certainly did not like to study very well but did learn to be a fine reader and speller.
At the age of nine, Sam was a good swimmer (although he came very near being drowned three different times, while he was learning) and loved the river so that he was to be found on its shore almost any hour of the day. He longed to travel by steamer. Once he ran away and hid on board one until it was well down the river. As soon as he showed himself to the captain, he was put ashore, his father was sent for, and he received a whipping that he remembered a long time.
At nine he had a head rather too large for his body, and it looked even bigger because[185] he had such a lot of waving, sandy hair. He had fine gray eyes, a slow, drawling voice, and said such droll things that the boys listened to everything he said. His two best chums were Will Bowen and John Briggs. These three friends could run like deer, and what time they were not fishing or swimming they usually spent in a cave which they had found.
At twelve he was just a careless, happy, barefoot boy, often in mischief, and only excelling in two things at school. He won the weekly medal for spelling, and his compositions were so funny that the teachers and pupils used to laugh till the tears came, when they were read aloud. His teachers said he ought to train himself for a writer, but it did not seem to him that there was anything so noble or desirable in this world as being a pilot. And he loved the great Mississippi River better than any place he had known or could imagine.
“为什么——为什么——”他结结巴巴地说，“我一定是忘记了他。”当然，他为自己感到羞耻，并催促一个人骑着一匹快马前往汉尼拔，在那里，山姆被发现又饿又害怕，在上锁的房子里徘徊。萨姆五岁时被送去上学。他当然不太喜欢学习，但确实学会了成为一名优秀的阅读和拼写者。九岁时，萨姆就成为了一名游泳高手（尽管在学习期间，他曾三次差点被淹死）并且热爱这条河，因此几乎一天中的任何时候都可以在河岸上找到他。他渴望乘轮船旅行。有一次，他逃跑了，躲在一艘船上，直到船驶到河下游。他一向船长露面，就被带上了岸，他的父亲也被叫来，并受到了他记忆已久的鞭打。九岁时，他的头对于他的身体来说太大了，而且看起来更大，因为[185]他有很多波浪形的沙色头发。他有一双漂亮的灰色眼睛，声音缓慢而拖长，说道
