Water baby Tom (11)

Water baby Tom (11)

But when he got into the wood, the boughs laid hold of his legs and arms, the hassock-grass and sedges tumbled him over and the birches birched him.

" I must get out of this, " thought Tom.
And indeed I don't think he would ever have got out at all if he had not suddenly run his head against a wall. 
He guessed that over the wall the cover would end ; and up it he went, and over like a squirrel.

And there he was, out on the great grouse-moors, heather and bog and rock, stretching away and up, up to the very sky.
※grouse-moor ムアは、イングランドやスコットランドにおける heather の生えた排水の悪い高原地帯で、ライチョウ (grouse) の生息域。      



At last he came to a dip in the land, and went to the bottom of it, and then he turned bravely away from the wall and up the moor ; for he knew that he had put a hill between him and his enemies, and could go on without their seeing him.
But Irishwoman, alone of them all, had seen which way Tom went.

So Tom went on, and on, he hardly knew why.
What would Tom have said, if he had seen, walking over the moor behind him, the very same Irishwoman  who had taken his his part upon the road ? 

(11/16)
もしかしましたら（たぶん）、17回ぐらいに延びるかもしれません（長さを間違えました）。