【生肉搬运】Shrike伯劳鸟 第一章 原文(9)

And then he heard the bray of an animal in distress, and opened his eyes to see the stag swimming after him. You stupid bastard, he’d thought, even as panic began to fill his soaked chest. He’d grabbed the first low-hanging branch he passed under, and then he’d grabbed the stag, and he’d hauled the both of them to the muddy bank, and said, out loud, “You stupid bastard!”
The stag merely got on shaking legs and pressed its nose against George’s trouser pocket.
George gave it a berry. “You stupid bastard,” he whispered, but he didn’t know to whom this time.