雪山堡垒.1 | The Snow Fort on Slatter's Hill - Chapter 1

有声英语少儿童话故事 顽童故事 斯莱特山的雪堡 第1章Thememory of man, even that of the Oldest Inhabitant, runneth not back to the timewhen there did not exist a feud between the North End and the South End boys ofRivermouth.Theorigin of the feud is involved in mystery; it is impossible to say which partywas the first aggressor in the far-off anterevolutionary ages; but the factremains that the youngsters of those antipodal sections entertained a mortalhatred for each other, and that this hatred had been handed down fromgeneration to generation, like Miles Standish’s punch-bowl.Iknow not what laws, natural or unnatural, regulated the warmth of the quarrel;but at some seasons it raged more violently than at others. This winter bothparties were unusually lively and antagonistic. Great was the wrath of theSouth-Enders, when they discovered that the North-Enders bad thrown up a forton the crown of Slatter’s Hill.