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-= A Comedy of Ducks =
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-'''鸭的喜剧''' von/by/par Lu Xun (鲁迅)
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-A Comedy of Ducks
-The blind Russian poet Eroshenko came to Beijing and complained: 'Lonely, like in a desert!' He thought of Burma, where insects sing everywhere at night. 'In Beijing there isn't even frog-croaking,' he sighed. 'Frogs do croak!' I said. 'In summer after rain, in the ditches.'
-He bought tadpoles for the lotus pool. He preached self-sufficiency: plant cabbages, raise bees. Soon there were chicks. One morning a peddler brought ducklings. Eroshenko bought four -- eighty wen each.
-The ducklings swam in the lotus pool, ate everything -- including all the tadpoles. 'They're gone, the frog babies,' said the children. 'Oh dear!...' he said.
-When the ducks grew up, Eroshenko left for Russia. In summer frogs croaked everywhere; the ducks -- two white, two speckled -- quacked in the flooded yard.
-Now it was winter again, with no word from Eroshenko. Only the four ducks still quacked in the desert.
-(October 1922.)
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