The boy jerked about and then made a sound that I will never forget for as long as I live. It was the sound like a whale makes when it has been harpooned1 and knows that it is about to die. I fired all four of my arrows at the two bullies2 as they ran away laughing about what they had done.
I pulled the boy up off the ground and helped him back to his house which was about two blocks down the street from the school building. When we reached his home his sister told me that her brother was deaf but that he was not dumb like the two bullies said. That he was very smart but could not say or hear anything. I told her that he did make a sound when the bully3 kicked him in the back. She told me that I must be mistaken because all her brother's vocal4 cords had been removed during an experimental surgery, which had failed.
The boy made one of those hand signs at me as I was about to leave. I asked his sister "if your brother is so smart then why is he doing things like that with his hands?" She told me that he was saying that he loved me with his hands. I didn't say anything back to her at all because I didn't believe her. People can't talk with their hands and everybody knows that. People can only talk with their mouth.
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Almost every Sunday for the next year or two I could see the boy through the chain-link fence as we ate watermelon outside behind the dining room, during the summer time. He always made that same funny hand sign at me and I would just wave back at him, not knowing what else to do.
On my very last day in the orphanage5 I was being chased by the police. They told me that I was being sent off to the Florida School for Boys Reform School, at Marianna so I ran to get away from them. They chased me around the dining room building several times and finally I made a dash for the chain-link fence and tried to climb over in order to escape. I saw the deaf boy sitting there on his porch just looking at me as they pulled me down from the fence and handcuffed me. The boy, now about twelve jumped up and ran across San Diego Road, placed his fingers through the chain-link fence and just stood there looking at us.
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1 harpooned
v.魚鏢，魚叉( harpoon的過去式和過去分詞 )
參考例句：
He said he once harpooned a 2, 000-pound shark off the coast of New York. 他稱，他曾經(jīng)在紐約海面上，用魚叉捕獲過一條重達(dá)2.000磅的鯊魚。 來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
2 bullies
n.欺凌弱小者, 開球vt.恐嚇, 威脅, 欺負(fù)
參考例句：
Standing up to bullies takes plenty of backbone. 勇敢地對(duì)付暴徒需有大無畏精神。 Bullies can make your life hell. 恃強(qiáng)欺弱者能讓你的日子像活地獄。
3 bully
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n.恃強(qiáng)欺弱者，小流氓；vt.威脅，欺侮
參考例句：
A bully is always a coward.暴漢常是懦夫。 The boy gave the bully a pelt on the back with a pebble.那男孩用石子擲擊小流氓的背脊。
4 vocal
adj.直言不諱的；嗓音的；n.[pl.]聲樂節(jié)目
參考例句：
The tongue is a vocal organ.舌頭是一個(gè)發(fā)音器官。 Public opinion at last became vocal.終于輿論嘩然。
5 orphanage
n.孤兒院
參考例句：
They dispensed new clothes to the children in the orphanage.他們把新衣服發(fā)給孤兒院的小孩們。 They gave the proceeds of the sale to the orphanage.他們把銷售的收入給了這家孤兒院。
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