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“Gosh darn my buttons (черт меня побери: «пришей/ прокляни мои пуговицы»; gosh – Боже!, черт возьми! by gosh! – черт возьми! /выражение изумления, досады, радости и т. п./; to darn – 1. штопать; 2. эвфемизм вместо to damn – проклинать /здесь игра слов, работают оба значения/)! if I didn’t plumb forget di
“Come down out o’ that, Mr. Pocket! Be right smart an’ agreeable, an’ come down!”
“All right,” he would add later, in a voice resigned to determination. “All right, Mr. Pocket. It’s plain to me I got to come right up an’ snatch you out bald-headed. An’ I’ll do it! I’ll do it!" he would threaten still later.
Each pan he carried down to the water to wash, and as he went higher up the hill the pans grew richer, until he began to save the gold in an empty baking-powder can which he carried carelessly in his hip-pocket. So engrossed was he in his toil that he did not notice the long twilight of oncoming night. It was not until he tried vainly to see the gold colors in the bottom of the pan that he realized the passage of time. He straightened up abruptly. An expression of whimsical wonderment and awe overspread his face as he drawled:
“Gosh darn my buttons! if I didn’t plumb forget di
He stumbled across the stream in the darkness and lighted his long-delayed fire (он спотыкался /на пути/ к ручью в темноте и разжег свой запоздалый костер; to delay – откладывать). Flapjacks and bacon and warmed-over beans constituted his supper (лепешки, бекон и подогретые бобы составили его ужин). Then he smoked a pipe by the smouldering coals (затем он закурил трубку от тлеющих углей; to smoulder – медленно гореть, тлеть), listening to the night noises and watching the moonlight stream through the canyon (прислушиваясь к ночным шорохам и глядя на поток лунного света /струившийся/ через каньон). After that he unrolled his bed (после этого он раскатал постель), took off his heavy shoes (снял свои тяжелые ботинки), and pulled the blankets up to his chin (и натянул одеяла до самого подбородка). His face showed white in the moonlight (его лицо казалось белым в лунном свете), like the face of a corpse (как лицо покойника; corpse – труп). But it was a corpse that knew its resurrection (но это был покойник, который знал о своем воскресении), for the man rose suddenly on one elbow and gazed across at his hillside (так как человек внезапно приподнялся на локте и окинул взглядом свой холм по ту сторону /ручья/).
“Good night, Mr. Pocket (доброй ночи, мистер Карман),” he called sleepily (крикнул он сонно). “Good night.”
He stumbled across the stream in the darkness and lighted his long-delayed fire. Flapjacks and bacon and warmed-over beans constituted his supper. Then he smoked a pipe by the smouldering coals, listening to the night noises and watching the moonlight stream through the canyon. After that he unrolled his bed, took off his heavy shoes, and pulled the blankets up to his chin. His face showed white in the moonlight, like the face of a corpse. But it was a corpse that knew its resurrection, for the man rose suddenly on one elbow and gazed across at his hillside.
“Good night, Mr. Pocket,” he called sleepily. “Good night.”
He slept through the early gray of morning until the direct rays of the sun smote his closed eyelids (он проспал ранний сумрак утра, пока прямые лучи солнца не ударили ему в закрытые веки; to smite – ударять), when he awoke with a start and looked about him (когда он, вздрогнув, проснулся и осмотрелся вокруг) until he had established the continuity of his existence (пока он не установил непрерывность своего существования) and identified his present self with the days previously lived (и не отождествил себя настоящего с днями, пережитыми до этого; previous – предшествующий, предыдущий).
To dress, he had merely to buckle on his shoes (/для того чтобы/ одеться, ему только нужно было застегнуть ботинки; to buckle – застегивать пряжку). He glanced at his fireplace and at his hillside (он посмотрел на свой костер и холм), wavered (заколебался), but fought down the temptation and started the fire (но поборол искушение и разжег костер; to fight down – победить, подавить).
“Keep yer shirt on, Bill; keep yer shirt on (спокойно, Билл, спокойно; to keep one’s shirt on – успокоится, не терять терпения: «оставлять на себе рубашку»),” he admonished himself (уговаривал он самого себя; to admonish – предостерегать; советовать, убеждать, увещевать, уговаривать). “What’s the good of rushin’ (что хорошего в спешке; to rush – бросаться, мчаться)? No use in gettin’ all het up an’ sweaty (нет смысла волноваться и потеть; het up – взволнованный, нервничающий; sweat – пот; sweaty – потный). Mr. Pocket’ll wait for you (мистер Карман подождет тебя). He ain’t a-ru
He slept through the early gray of morning until the direct rays of the sun smote his closed eyelids, when he awoke with a start and looked about him until he had established the continuity of his existence and identified his present self with the days previously lived.
To dress, he had merely to buckle on his shoes. He glanced at his fireplace and at his hillside, wavered, but fought down the temptation and started the fire.
“Keep yer shirt on, Bill; keep yer shirt on,” he admonished himself. “What’s the good of rushin’? No use in gettin’ all het up an’ sweaty. Mr. Pocket’ll wait for you. He ain’t a-ru
He cut a short pole at the water’s edge (он отрезал короткий прут на берегу ручья; pole – палка; столб) and drew from one of his pockets a bit of line (и достал из одного из своих карманов кусок веревки; line – линия; веревка) and a draggled fly that had once been a royal coachman (и испачканную муху, которая однажды была здоровенной мухой-наживкой; to draggle – пачкать, марать, загрязнять; coachman – кучер; искусственная муха /при рыбной ловле/; royal – царский, королевский; разг. большого размера).
“Mebbe they’ll bite in the early morning (может быть, будет клевать рано утром; maybe),” he muttered, as he made his first cast into the pool (пробормотал он, делая свой первый бросок в заводь). And a moment later he was gleefully crying (а минутой позже он весело кричал): “What ’d I tell you, eh? What ’d I tell you (что я говорил, а)?”