And the young Fisherman said to himself: 'How strange a thing this is!

年轻的渔夫于是自语道：“多么奇怪的事情呀！”

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So they entered in and passed through the streets, and as they passed through the street of the Sellers of Sandals, the young Fisherman saw a child standing by a jar of water.

他们于是入得城内，走街过巷。而当他们行至凉鞋商街的时候，年轻的渔夫见到一缸水边立着一个孩子。

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But the young Fisherman answered not his Soul, but in a cleft of the rock he built himself a house of wattles, and abode there for the space of a year.

但年轻的渔夫却并不作答，他用枝条在岩石的裂缝里盖了一所小房子，并在那里蜗居了一年。

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He set to work, confident, funny, and instantly got heckled, a heckle that was followed by a collective audience intake of breath, for the heckler was Daniel Kitson, a rather shy, whimsical young comedian from Yorkshire who looks like a beardy cross between a fisherman and a geography teacher.

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