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Adams County’s Gold

亞當斯縣的黃金

Adams Academy was a good school. Boys lived there and took classes. Tom worked hard all week. On a spring Saturday, he wanted to do something fun!

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亞當斯學院是一所好學校，男孩們在這所學校里寄讀。湯姆一整個星期都很努力。在一個春季的星期六，他決定做一些有趣的事情。

He asked his friend Jeff to go to the movie theater. “Sorry,” Jeff answered. “I’m going to a concert.”

他邀請自己的朋友杰夫跟他一起去電影院。“不好意思，”杰夫答道，“我打算去聽音樂會。”

So Tom asked Joe to go to the movies. But Joe’s soccer team had a game.

所以湯姆又邀請了喬一起去電影院，但喬所在的足球隊有比賽。

Next, Tom went down the hall to Brad’s room. Brad was reading a very large old book. “Hi, Brad,” Tom said. “Are you reading a dictionary? It looks ancient.”

接著，湯姆又去到布拉德的房間。布拉德正在閱讀一本又大又古老的書。“你好，布拉德，”湯姆說。“你在閱讀的是字典嗎？看起來好古老。”

No. This is called The Wealth of Adams County. It’s about hidden gold in Adams County. It’s more than a century old. It was published in 1870! Look, it even has the original cover on it.

“不，這本書叫《亞當斯縣的財富》。它講述的是藏在亞當斯縣的黃金，這本書已逾百年。這本書是1870年出版的！你看，連書的封面都這么古老。”

Tom asked, “Where did you get it?”

湯姆問道：“這本書是哪來的呀？”

It’s from my dad’s friend. He is a nice gentleman, an officer in the army, answered Brad.

“這是我爸爸朋友的書。他是個翩翩君子，還是個軍官呢。”布拉德回答說。

The gold doesn’t really exist, does it? Tom asked.

“書里講的黃金是不存在的對吧？”湯姆問道。

I don’t know, but maybe! There are clues to it in this book. Let’s find it! Looking for gold sounded like fun.
“我也不知道，但也有可能是真的！這本書里有很多關于這批黃金的線索，我們一起找找看吧！”尋找黃金聽起來還挺有趣的。

The first clue was to find a flat tree underground. “It must be in the forest,” Tom said.

書中的第一個線索是要找到一顆神秘的平頂樹。“那肯定是在森林里。”湯姆說道。

Brad said, “The flat tree could be a board under the dirt. It could cover the gold.”

布拉德接著說：“這棵平頂樹也可能是埋在土里的木板，用來蓋住這些黃金。”

Tom and Brad dug in the dirt all morning.

一整個早上，湯姆和布拉德都在挖地掘金。

The process of looking for gold made them hungry. They were ready to stop for lunch. But then Brad hit something hard. It was a board!

忙活了這么久，他們都餓了。正當他們準備停下手中的活去吃午飯時，布拉德挖到了一個堅硬的東西。他挖到的是一塊木板！

Brad pounded on the board until it broke.There was a small hole under it. “Look!” He held up a gold coin.
布拉德把木板敲爛，露出一個小洞口。“快看！”他拿起了一塊金幣。

Tom saw a piece of paper in the hole. “Brad, there’s more. It’s a map to the rest of the gold!”

湯姆則透過洞口看到了一張圖。“布拉德，這還有呢。這是一張藏寶圖！”

Brad smiled. “Let’s go!” And they hurried to find the wealth of Adams County.