Japanese–English parallel text
ラクダのこぶはどうしてできたか
How the Camel Got His Hump
Rudyard Kipling
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さて、これは次のお話だ。ラクダがどうやってあの大きなこぶを手に入れたかを語っている。
Now this is the next tale, and it tells how the Camel got his big hump.
太古の初め、世界ができたばかりで、動物たちが人間のために働き始めたころのことだ。一頭のラクダがいた。彼は働きたくなかったので、『遠吠えの砂漠』の真ん中に住んでいた。それに彼自身も遠吠えする仲間だったのだ。
In the beginning of years, when the world was so new and all, and the Animals were just beginning to work for Man, there was a Camel, and he lived in the middle of a Howling Desert because he did not want to work; and besides, he was a Howler himself.
だからラクダは、木の枝やトゲやギョリュウ、トウワタやイバラを食べて、ひどく怠けて暮らしていた。誰かが話しかけても、「フンッ!」としか言わなかった。ただ「フンッ!」とだけ言って、それ以上は何も言わなかった。
So he ate sticks and thorns and tamarisks and milkweed and prickles, most ‘scruciating idle; and when anybody spoke to him he said ‘Humph!’ Just ‘Humph!’ and no more.
やがて月曜日の朝に、背中に鞍を置き、口にくつわをつけたウマがやって来て言った。「ラクダよ、おおいラクダ。出てきて、ぼくたちみたいに軽やかに走っておくれ」
Presently the Horse came to him on Monday morning, with a saddle on his back and a bit in his mouth, and said, ‘Camel, O Camel, come out and trot like the rest of us.’
「フンッ!」とラクダは言った。ウマは立ち去り、人間にそのことを言いつけた。
‘Humph!’ said the Camel; and the Horse went away and told the Man.
やがてイヌが、木の棒をくわえてやって来て言った。「ラクダよ、おおいラクダ。来て、ぼくたちみたいに物を取ってきて運んでおくれ」
Presently the Dog came to him, with a stick in his mouth, and said, ‘Camel, O Camel, come and fetch and carry like the rest of us.’
「フンッ!」とラクダは言った。イヌは立ち去り、人間にそのことを言いつけた。
‘Humph!’ said the Camel; and the Dog went away and told the Man.
やがてウシが、首にくびきをつけてやって来て言った。「ラクダよ、おおいラクダ。来て、ぼくたちみたいに畑を耕しておくれ」
Presently the Ox came to him, with the yoke on his neck and said, ‘Camel, O Camel, come and plough like the rest of us.’
「フンッ!」とラクダは言った。ウシは立ち去り、人間にそのことを言いつけた。
‘Humph!’ said the Camel; and the Ox went away and told the Man.
一日の終わりに、人間はウマとイヌとウシを呼び集めて言った。「三匹の者たちよ、気の毒に思う(世界ができたばかりだというのに)。だが、砂漠のあの『フンッ』と言うやつは働けないようだ。働けるなら今ごろここに来ているはずだ。だから放っておくことにする。その埋め合わせに、お前たちが倍の時間働かなければならない」
At the end of the day the Man called the Horse and the Dog and the Ox together, and said, ‘Three, O Three, I’m very sorry for you (with the world so new-and-all); but that Humph-thing in the Desert can’t work, or he would have been here by now, so I am going to leave him alone, and you must work double-time to make up for it.’
これを聞いて三匹はとても怒った(世界ができたばかりだというのに)。彼らは砂漠の端に集まり、話し合いの会議を開いた。そこへラクダが、トウワタをかみながら、あきれるほどのんびりとやって来て、三匹を笑った。
That made the Three very angry (with the world so new-and-all), and they held a palaver, and an indaba, and a punchayet, and a pow-wow on the edge of the Desert; and the Camel came chewing on milkweed most ‘scruciating idle, and laughed at them.
それからラクダは「フンッ!」と言って、また去っていった。
Then he said ‘Humph!’ and went away again.
やがて、『すべての砂漠を治めるジン』が砂ぼこりの雲に巻かれてやって来た(ジンは魔法を使えるので、いつもそうやって旅をするのだ)。ジンは三匹と話し合うために立ち止まった。
Presently there came along the Djinn in charge of All Deserts, rolling in a cloud of dust (Djinns always travel that way because it is Magic), and he stopped to palaver and pow-pow with the Three.
ウマが言った。「すべての砂漠を治めるジンさま、世界ができたばかりだというのに、誰かが怠けていてもいいものでしょうか」
‘Djinn of All Deserts,’ said the Horse, ‘is it right for any one to be idle, with the world so new-and-all?’
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