“我在丹麦各地都旅行过。我认识所有的人，所有的人也认识我。现在我要到瑞典去了。如果我在那里的运气好，能够赚很多的钱，我就做一个真正的北欧人——否则我就不做了。因为你是我的同乡，所以我才把这话告诉你。”

　　而我呢，作为他的同胞，自然要把这话马上传达出来——完全没有其他的意思。

　　①摩西和预言家都是基督教《圣经·旧约》里的人物，生活在大约纪元前1200年间。在这时代希伯来人因为迁居不定，须得经常想出许多办法来解决生活上的问题。因此有新思想的人都受到尊崇。

　　②在欧洲中世纪教会统治之下，凡是有新奇思想的人都被视为异端，当做魔鬼的使者烧死。

 　　演木偶戏的人英文版：

　　The Puppet-Show Man

　　ON board a steamer I once met an elderly man, with such a merry face that, if it was really an index of his mind, he must have been the happiest fellow in creation; and indeed he considered himself so, for I heard it from his own mouth. He was a Dane, the owner of a travelling theatre. He had all his company with him in a large box, for he was the proprietor of a puppet-show. His inborn cheerfulness,