《神奇树屋》 第十八册 Buffalo Before Breakfast 10 Good Medicine

　　"We're home," said Annie.

Bright sunlight flooded the tree house. Teddy licked Jack¹'s andAnnie's faces. They were back in their jeans and T-shirts.

"Hey, silly," Annie said to the dog. "Now we have the secondthing to help free you from your spell."She took the eagle's feather out of Jack's backpack. She put iton Morgan's note, next to the silver pocket watch from theTitanic.

"Now we have our gift from the prairie blue," said Jack. "Letyour thoughts rise as high as this feather.""Hey, I just had a thought!" said Annie.

"What?" said Jack.

"I bet Teddy had something to do with the White BuffaloWoman," she said.

"Why?" asked Jack.

"One second Teddy disappeared in the grass. Then WhiteBuffalo Woman appeared," said Annie. "When White BuffaloWoman disappeared, Teddy appeared.""Hmm.." said Jack. He stared at the little dog.

Teddy tilted³ his head and gave Jack a wise look.

"Well..." said Jack, "maybe Teddy has good medicine.""Now you understand," said Annie, smiling. "Ja-ack! An-nie!"A call came from the distance.

Jack and Annie looked out the window of the tree house.

Their mom and their grandmother were standing⁴ on theirporch.

"Yay, Grandmother's here!" said Annie.

"We're coming!" they shouted together.

"Let's put Teddy in your backpack," said Annie. "So we cantake him home with us this time.""Okay," said Jack.

But when they turned around, the little dog was gone.

"Teddy?" said Annie. There was no sign of him.

"Oh, man, as soon as we turned our backs, he slipped away,"said Jack. "Just like last time.""Don't Worry," said Annie. "He'll find us again Soon. I'm sureof it." She started down the rope ladder.

Jack grabbed his pack and followed.

As they started for home, a wind gusted⁵ through the trees.

Jack stopped for a moment to look at the woods.

Branches waved their leaves.

Birds left the branches and swooped⁶ up into the blue sky.

Black Hawk's grandmother is right, he thought. All things arerelated.

"Jack!" called Annie.

"Coming!" said Jack.

He hurried to catch up with her.

Together they ran out of the Frog Creek⁷ woods.. .up theirstreet.. .and into their owngrandmother's arms.

The EndTHE LEGEND OF WHITE BUFFALO² WOMANLong ago, when the Lakota had no game to hunt, a beautifulwoman in white buckskins appeared. She gave the chief of thetribe a special pipe. It had a buffalo carved on its round bowl andeaglefeathers hanging from its long wooden stem.

White Buffalo Woman told the chief that the smoke from thesacred pipe would carry prayers to the Great Spirit. The GreatSpirit would answer by helping⁸ the Lakota find buffalo to hunt.

White Buffalo Woman also said that the pipe smoke wouldjoin all living things to the Lakota tribe.

The pipe bowl represented the earth.

The buffalo carved upon it represented all four-legged animalsthat live upon the earth.

The pipe's wooden stem represented all that grows on theearth.

The twelve eagle feathers hanging from it represented all thewinged creatures.

As White Buffalo Woman walked away from the tribe, sheturned into a white buffalo calf-- one of the rarest animals of all.

The legend of White Buffalo Woman has been handed downfrom generation to generation by Lakota people.

MORE FACTS FOR YOU AND JACK1) The Lakota tribe has also been called the Sioux.

2) Today most Lakota live on reservations in North and SouthDakota. ("Reservations" are areas of land reserved for NativeAmericans by the U.S. government.) Lakota parents andgrandparents still pass on the traditional beliefs of their people totheir children.

3) The true name of the buffalo is bison. Bison came to NorthAmerica during the Ice Age and at one time were the biggestgroup of large mammals on the continent.

4) In the 1800s, the U.S. Army was at war with the NativeAmericans of the plains. They knew the Native American wayof life could not survive without the bison. So they decided⁹ tokill all the herds¹⁰. In the years that followed, millions of bisonwere killed until there were only a few hundred left.

In the early 1900s, many people were upset by the killing¹¹ ofthe bison. They asked the government to help save theseanimals. Captive bison were sent to Yellowstone National Parkand protected from hunters. Almost 2,500 bison live there today.

1 jack   

n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克

参考例句：

• I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
• He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。

2 buffalo   

n.(北美)野牛；(亚洲)水牛

参考例句：

• Asian buffalo isn't as wild as that of America's. 亚洲水牛比美洲水牛温顺些。
• The boots are made of buffalo hide. 这双靴子是由水牛皮制成的。

3 tilted   

v. 倾斜的

参考例句：

• Suddenly the boat tilted to one side. 小船突然倾向一侧。
• She tilted her chin at him defiantly. 她向他翘起下巴表示挑衅。

4 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。

5 gusted   

n. 突然一阵 n. 风味 vi. 猛吹

参考例句：

• The wind gusted up to 45 miles an hour. 风力达每小时45英里。
• As the strong winds gusted against the kites, a string kept them in check. 一阵强风刮向风筝，一根弦控制住了风筝。

6 swooped   

俯冲，猛冲( swoop的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The aircraft swooped down over the buildings. 飞机俯冲到那些建筑物上方。
• The hawk swooped down on the rabbit and killed it. 鹰猛地朝兔子扑下来，并把它杀死。

7 creek   

n.小溪，小河，小湾

参考例句：

• He sprang through the creek.他跳过小河。
• People sunbathe in the nude on the rocks above the creek.人们在露出小溪的岩石上裸体晒日光浴。

8 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

9 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

10 herds   

兽群( herd的名词复数 )； 牧群； 人群； 群众

参考例句：

• Regularly at daybreak they drive their herds to the pasture. 每天天一亮他们就把牲畜赶到草场上去。
• There we saw herds of cows grazing on the pasture. 我们在那里看到一群群的牛在草地上吃草。

11 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。