“你为什么哭呀？”他问他妈妈。

"Why are you crying?" he asked his Mon.

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一天，他问他妈妈，“妈妈今天是。”

One day, he asks his mother, "Mum, is today".

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所以他问他妈妈的意见，他的母亲笑着叫杰克邀请女孩去他的生日派对。

So he asks his mother for advice, his mother smiles and asks Jack to invite the girl to his birthday party.

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He was a hobo by choice: As a little boy, he'd seen a hobo come up to ask his mother for a piece of pie and she had given it to him and when the hobo went off down the road the little boy had said, "Ma, what was that fellow?" "Why, that's a hobo."

他是自愿成为流浪汉的：,当他还是个小男孩的时候，他见过一个流浪汉向他妈妈,要一块派，他妈妈给他了,于是当流浪汉离开的时候小男孩就问，“妈妈，那个家伙是谁“，“是个流浪汉“

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