One summerafternoon, when I was about eight years of age, I was looking at a beautiful rainbow that, bending from the sky, seemed to be losing itself in a thickwoodabout a quarter of a mile distant.
"Do you know, Gracie," said mybrother, who was just recovering from a severe illness, weak and tired, "that if you should go to the end of the rainbow, you would find there precioustreasures?"
"Is it truly so?" I asked.
"Truly so," answered my brother, with asmilebut a very serious face.
Now, I was asimple-heartedchild who believed everything that was told to me; so, without another word, I rushed out toward the wood. My brothercalledafter me as loudly as he was able to, but I did not take any notice of him.
I cared nothing for the wet grass, -on and on I ran. I was so sure that I knew just where that rainbow ended. But when I reached the cedars (雪松林), the end of the rainbow was not there! Abruptly I saw it shining down among the trees a little farther off; so on and on I struggled, through the thick bushes, till I came within the sound of astream. I reached the bank of the stream, and I could see it a little way off on the other side. I crossed the stream on a fallen tree, and still ran on, though my muscles were aching and my knees shaking.
Suddenly I met in my way a large porcupine (豪猪). I ran away from him as fast as my tired feet would carry me. In myfrightand hurry I forgot to keep my eye on the rainbow, and when, at last, I remembered and looked for it, it was nowhere in sight!
When I saw that it was indeed gone, I burst into tears, for I had lost all my treasures, and had nothing but muddy feet and a wet and torn dress. So I set out for home.
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But I soon found that my troubles had only begun.
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At last I heard my own name called.
