Information Please: A Source of Comfort and Help
- A young boy finds comfort and assistance from an information service called Information Please.
- The service helps with geography, arithmetic, and provides advice and support during difficult times.
- The boy learns that there are always other worlds to find solace and joy in.
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After that, I called Information Please for everything. I asked for help with my geography and she told me where Philadelphia was, and the Orinoco - the river I was goin to explore when I grew up. She helped me with my arithmetic, and she told me that a pet chipmunk - I had caught him in the park just the day before - would eat fruit and nuts. And there was the time that our pet canary died. I called Information Please and told her the sad story. She listened, and then said the usual things grown-ups say to soothe a child. But I did not feel better: why should birds sing so beautifully and bring joy to whole families, only to end as a heap of feathers feet up, on the bottom of a cage? She must have sensed my deep concern, for she said quietly, "Paul, always remember that there are other worlds to sing in". Somehow I felt better. Another day I was at the telephpone."Information," said the now familiar voice. "How do you spell fix?" I asked. "Fix something? F-I-X." At that instant my sister, trying to scare me, jumped off the stairs at me. I fell off the footstoo;, pulling the receiver out of the box. We were both terrified - Information Please was no longer there, and I was not at all sure that I hadn't hurt her when I pulled the receiver out. Minutes later there was a man at the door. "I'm a telephone repairman. I was working down the street and the operator said there might be some trouble at this number." He reached for the receiver in my hand. "What happened?" I told him. "Well, we can fix that in a minute or two." He opened the telephone box, did some repair work, and then spoke into the phone."Hi, this is Pete. Everything's under control at 105. The kid's sister scared him and he pulled the cord out of the box." He hung up, smiled, gave me a pat on the head and walked out of the door.
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その後私は何事に付けインフォーメーション・プリーズ（番号案内）に電話をかけました。地理を手伝ってくれるように私は頼みました、すると、彼女はフィラデルフィアとオリノコ川 ― 私が大人になったら探検しようと思っていた川 ― がどこにあるのか教えてくれました。彼女は私の算数も手伝ってくれました、また、彼女はペットのシマリス ― ちょうど前日に私は公園でそれを捕まえたのです ― が、果物や木の実を食べることを教えてくれました。 また、私たちのペットのカナリアが死んだ時もありました。私はインフォーメーション・プリーズに電話をしてこの悲しいお話を彼女にしました。彼女は聞いてくれました、そして、子供をなだめるために大人が言うありきたりのことを言いました。しかし、私は気分がよくなりませんでした：鳥はあんなに美しい声で鳴いて、家族全員に喜びをもたらすのに、なぜ鳥かごの底で足を上にして羽毛の塊みたいになって死ななくてはいけないの？ 彼女は私の深い不安な気持ちを感じ取ったに違いありません、と言うのは、彼女は静かに「ポール、さえずるには他の世界もあると言うことをいつも忘れないでね」と言いました。 なぜか私は気分が落ち着きました。 別の日に、私は電話をしていました。「インフォーメーション」と今ではなじみのある声が言いました。 「フィックスはどう綴るの？」と私は尋ねました。 「何かを修理するのフィックス？F-I-X よ」 その瞬間、私を脅かそうとしていた、私の妹が階段から私めがけて飛び付いてきました。私は足乗せ台から転げ落ちて、電話機本体から受話器を引きぬいてしまいました。私たちは二人とも怯えました ― インフォーメーション・プリーズはもうそこにはいませんでした、そして、受話器を引きぬいた時、私が彼女を怪我させなかったかどうか私は全く確信が持てませんでした。 数分後、戸口に一人の男の人がいました。「電話の修理屋です。そこの通りを行ったところで仕事をしていたのですが、交換手がこちらの番号で何か問題が起こったかもしれないと言ったものですから」彼は私の手の中の受話器に手を伸ばしました。 「どうしたの？」 私は彼に説明しました。 「そうだね、２，３分で直せるだろうね」彼は電話機の本体の箱を開けて、少し修理をしました、それから受話器に向かって話しかけました。「もしもし、ピートです。１０５番は全てうまくコントロールできています。少年の妹が少年を脅かしたので、少年は電話の箱からコードを引き抜いてしまったんです」 彼は電話を切って、にっこりして、私の頭をなでると、戸口から出て行きました。 <参考> http://hischoolengtexttrans.blog.fc2.com/blog-category-58.html
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