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At The River
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Written Patricia Grace(P134〜P138)
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Death at the River
ごえべえ
From the river the torches are coming sadly toward me. Those who went to catch eels are coming back.
He and I came here every year for eels.
In a dream while I was waiting he appeared and told that it was his time and no weeping.
I denied it was his time. He was strong and healthy. But morepork came on my head and cried.
Before the night our grandchildren talked straight to him like they didn’t respect him. He was patient to them.
The torches came and they told me his death by the river. Now grandchildren are weeping and regretting their behavior toward their grandpa.
I told them he said it was his time and no weeping. However, we weep for him and for us.

はしょってしまった感じですみません。
これ、夫婦なんですよね?
彼と私の孫と書かれていて、彼の孫と私の孫が別なのかと最初思いました。
morepork が鳴くのは不吉なのでしょうか?

At The River
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  I am very anxious... It is dark outside the tent and a morepork, the native owl of New Zealand, is above my head. Its night call sounds like "more pork," which really made me feel uneasiness. In the dream I just had, he showed up and said, "It is my time to go, but do not weep." He was smiling with hand on heart. I don't want to think what the dream meant. After all I should have insisted on him not going to the river.

Every year we come here for catching eels in the river, but now we are old and even traveling a long way here with lots of equipment was much more work than ever. I thought it was very dangerous for him to go down to the river with our children and grandchildren this time and it was just about the time to let the young generation to do so instead of him. Despite of my asking however, he did go with them.

The bad dream I just had reminded me of the way young fellows spoke to him before they left. They looked down on him just because he was old. It bothered me a lot but he was very patient.

Now I see the torches coming back from the river slowly , and somehow I know what happened to him.

The young fellows told me that he had fallen into the river by accident. And they regret their rude attitude toward him. They were weeping from their heart.

Although he asked me not to weep, I couldn't help raising a wail of sorrow. And our grief occupied the lonely night.

At the river
ぱんぷきん

I wait in sadness. I fell asleep in the tent after they had gone to the river and I had a dream of him. In the dream, he said "I go but no weeping, it is my time." My sadness becomes deeply all the more when the morepork cried above my head.
Every year we come to the river to catch eels. I think we are too old to travel all the way to the river with our stuffs and to fetch the eels even more. I suggested him we let the young ones go. But he insisted on going by himself.
The night before we worked we all prepared for the torches. Young ones made their eel hooks. The experienced and elder people told them the eel hooks were good for eels but not for the leg. Young ones just made fun of him far from following the advice.
While waiting I saw two lights come near, those brought me sad news. I saw the tears on boy's faces. The boys told me what happened and they blamed themselves because they spoke bad words to him. We wept together. Although I comforted them, so lonely night as the morepork cried and more sorrow he never comes back.

 

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