Pa promised that when they came to the West, Laura should see a papoose.

爸爸答应当他们来到西部时，劳拉应该看到一只爸爸。

" Pa, when are we going to see a papoose? "

“爸爸，我们什么时候去看狗？”

That night by the fire Laura asked again when she would see a papoose, but Pa didn't know.

那天晚上在炉火旁， 劳拉又问她什么时候能见到一只公狗，但爸爸不知道。

She put her sunbonnet on when Ma told her to, but she did not forget the papoose.

她按照妈妈的吩咐戴上了遮阳帽，但她没有忘记帽子。

So Laura chewed and swallowed, and she said, " I want to see a papoose" .

所以劳拉咀嚼吞咽， 她说，“我想看一只公鸡” 。

Laura asked if a panther would carry off a little papoose and kill and eat her, too, and Pa said yes.

劳拉问一只黑豹是否会带走一只小狗并杀死并吃掉她，同样，爸爸说是的。

Laura thought he would show her a papoose some day, just as he had shown her fawns, and little bears, and wolves.

劳拉认为他总有一天会给她看一只大熊猫，就像他给她看小鹿、小熊和狼一样。

" What is a papoose" ? she asked him, and he said, " A papoose is a little, brown, Indian baby" .They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin.

“什么是 papoose”？ 她问他，他说：“papoose 是一种棕色的小印度婴儿。 ” 他们驱车穿过白雪皑皑的树林走了很长一段路，直到他们来到了佩平镇。