Section 64 Tender, Trusty, and True. — IV
“There,” I said, when I had seen that, “I know what David never did do: he (S. 5, N. 2) never struck a boy that1 was no match for him; he never was a coward like that big boy; for he2 is a coward to3 strike a small boy so; and those4 others are not the boys (S. 16, N. 10) they ought5 to be, to6 stand by and see it done.” I saw such7 a thing in a picture once, which was called the Wolf and the Lamb. A great, cruel boy8 meets a small, delicate lad9 who has lost his father, and stands over him with10 his fist doubled, just as I saw that boy stand under my study window. I think11 if12 any13 boy in this church were14 to see that picture, he would instantly say15: “What a shame to use16 a boy so who is not your match!”
Notes
1 that — him, der ihm nicht gewachsen war.
2 the pron. ‘he’ is used demonstratively in this clause.
3 Say ‘because he can strike a small boy so’.
4 those = the.
5 To render ‘ought’, use the Imperf. of ‘sollen’.
6 Say ‘because they stand by (dabei´stehen) and look at it (es mit an´sehen)’.
7 such a thing, etwas Aehnliches. The adv. ‘once’ must stand immediately after the verb.
8 Bube, m.
9 lad, Bursche, m. The clause ‘who — father’ may be briefly rendered by the adj. ‘fatherless’, which place before ‘lad’.
10 mit geballter Faust.
11 When the verb ‘to think’ is used in the meaning of ‘to be of opinion’, it must be rendered by ‘glauben’, and when it is used in the meaning of ‘to be engaged in thinking’, by ‘denken’.
12 The conj. ‘if’ must always be rendered by ‘wenn’.
13 any boy = any (irgend) one of you.
14 Render the words ‘were to see’ by the Imperf. Subj. of sehen.
15 aus´rufen.
16 to use = to abuse, miß´handeln.