So there is this story about his Uncle Hoskins who takes his horse and cart with Richard in the back and drives it into the middle of the Mississippi River as a kind of practical joke on Richard.

有个故事是关于他的叔叔Hoskins的，他让理查坐在他的马车后，却连人带车掉到密西西比河里，这被作为了一个理查的真实笑话。

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Oh, he understood, the river is not so shallow as the cow uncle said, no small squirrel said so deep.

噢，他明白了，河水既没有牛伯伯说的那么浅，也没有小松鼠说的那么深。

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Cow uncle said the river is shallow, the small squirrel said the river is deep, how can this do you have to go back and ask my mother.

牛伯伯说河水浅，小松鼠说河水深，这可怎么办呀？只好回去问妈妈。

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"The whole river bed here was full of people, " Samaruddin's uncle Nasraddin remembers.

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