The Old house (10)

The Old house (10)

" I have wept tin tears ! It is much too mournful and sad here. Please, let me go to the wars and lose my arms and legs, that at least will be change. I can't stand it, for I know what it is like to have old thoughts and old memories come visiting.
Mine have been here and that is not amusing.
Why, I almost jumped right off the lid of the chest. I saw all of you and my own home as plainly as if I had been there.

It was Sunday morning and all you children were standing sround the big table singing nymns, as you always do on Sunday.
Your parents were nearby, looking solemn.

Suddenly the door opened and little Maria, who is only two years old, entered.
She always dances whenever she hears music, and she tried to dance to the tune you were singing, but hymns are not made fot dancing they are too slow.
She stood first on one leg and flung her head forward, and then on the other and flung her head foward, but it didn't work out.

You looked grave, all of you, but I found it too difficult not to laughーat least inside myself.
I laughed so hard that I fell off the table and hit my head so hard that I got lump on it.
I know it was wrong of me to laugh and the lump was punishment for it.

That is what the old man meant by old thoughts and memories: everything that has ever happened to you comes back inside you...

Tell me, do you still sing your hymns on Sunday ?
Tell me something about little Maria and about my comrade, the other tin soldier.
He must be happy.

Oh, I can't stand it ! "

" I have given you away, " said the little boy.
" You will have to stay, can't you understand that ? "

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少しわかりにくく、長いのですが、最後の前まで、まとめて tin soldier の長セリフですので。