The Wind in the Willows: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
버드나무에 부는 바람: 새벽의 피리 소리
Kenneth Grahame (1908)
The Story
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On a warm summer night, the Mole lay on the river bank and waited for the Rat to come home.When the Rat came, he looked worried. “Little Portly, the Otter’s son, is missing again,” he said.“He has been gone for days, and he can’t swim very well yet, so his father waits by the old ford every night, just in case he comes back.”
The Mole could not go to bed and do nothing, so the two friends took out the boat and rowed up the river in the dark.When the moon rose, they searched the hedges, the hollow trees, and the little ditches, but they found no sign of Portly.Just before dawn, the Rat suddenly sat up and listened. “Can you hear it, Mole? Such beautiful music, like someone playing pipes far away!”
The Mole heard nothing but the wind in the reeds, but he rowed on wherever the Rat pointed.At last the music reached the Mole too, and it was so sweet that tears came to both their eyes.It led them to a small island in the middle of the river, where the water rushed over a great weir.
They landed and walked onto a little lawn of bright green grass, and suddenly the Mole felt a deep, quiet awe.He lifted his eyes and saw the Friend and Helper of all small animals: a great, kind being with curved horns, holding a set of pipes.And sleeping peacefully between his feet was the little lost otter, Portly.
“Rat, are you afraid?” whispered the Mole, and the Rat answered, “Afraid? Of Him? Oh, never, never! And yet... oh, Mole, I am afraid!”Then the sun rose, and when they could see again, the vision was gone, and a soft breeze made them forget everything.“Look, there’s Portly!” cried the Rat happily, and they took the little otter home in their boat.
When they put Portly on the path near the ford, he ran off squeaking, and they heard his father’s joyful bark.As the boat drifted home in the warm sun, both friends felt strangely tired, as if something wonderful had happened.The Rat tried to catch the words in the wind’s music, but before he could finish, he fell fast asleep with a happy smile.
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따뜻한 여름밤, 두더지는 강둑에 누워 물쥐가 집에 오기를 기다렸어요. 돌아온 물쥐는 걱정스러운 얼굴이었어요. "수달네 아들 포틀리가 또 없어졌대." 물쥐가 말했어요. "벌써 며칠째 안 보인대. 아직 헤엄도 잘 못 치는데 말이야. 그래서 수달 아저씨는 혹시 돌아올까 싶어 밤마다 옛 여울목에서 기다린대."
두더지는 아무것도 안 하고 잠자리에 들 수가 없었어요. 그래서 두 친구는 배를 꺼내 어둠 속에서 강 위쪽으로 노를 저어 갔어요. 달이 떠오르자 둘은 산울타리와 속이 빈 나무, 작은 도랑까지 뒤졌지만, 포틀리의 흔적은 찾을 수 없었어요. 새벽이 오기 직전, 물쥐가 갑자기 몸을 일으켜 귀를 기울였어요. "두더지야, 저 소리 들려? 정말 아름다운 음악이야. 멀리서 누가 피리를 부는 것 같아!"
두더지에게는 갈대 사이로 부는 바람 소리밖에 들리지 않았지만, 물쥐가 가리키는 대로 계속 노를 저었어요. 마침내 두더지에게도 그 음악이 들려왔어요. 너무나 아름다워서 둘의 눈에 눈물이 고였어요. 음악은 둘을 강 한가운데의 작은 섬으로 이끌었어요. 섬 옆으로는 커다란 보 위로 물이 쏟아져 내리고 있었어요.
둘은 섬에 내려 밝은 초록빛 작은 풀밭으로 걸어 들어갔어요. 그러자 갑자기 두더지는 깊고 고요한 경외감을 느꼈어요. 두더지가 눈을 들어 보니, 모든 작은 동물의 친구이자 도우미가 있었어요. 구부러진 뿔이 달리고 손에 피리를 든, 위대하고 다정한 존재였어요. 그리고 그 발치에서는 길 잃은 아기 수달 포틀리가 평화롭게 잠들어 있었어요.
"물쥐야, 무서워?" 두더지가 속삭이자 물쥐가 대답했어요. "무섭냐고? 저분이? 아니, 절대 아니야! 그런데도… 아, 두더지야, 무서워!" 그때 해가 떠올랐어요. 다시 앞을 볼 수 있게 되었을 때 그 모습은 사라지고 없었고, 부드러운 바람이 불어와 둘은 모든 것을 잊어버렸어요. "저기 봐, 포틀리야!" 물쥐가 기뻐하며 외쳤어요. 둘은 아기 수달을 배에 태워 집으로 데려갔어요.
여울목 근처 길에 포틀리를 내려 주자, 포틀리는 끽끽거리며 달려갔어요. 곧 아빠 수달의 기쁜 외침이 들려왔어요. 따스한 햇살 아래 배가 집으로 떠내려가는 동안, 두 친구는 무언가 놀라운 일이 있었던 것처럼 이상하게 피곤했어요. 물쥐는 바람의 음악 속에 담긴 말을 알아들으려 애썼지만, 끝내기도 전에 행복한 미소를 띤 채 깊이 잠들어 버렸어요.
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Read the originalComprehension Check
1. Why was the Otter so worried?
2. What did the Rat hear just before dawn?
3. Where did the two friends find Portly?
Vocabulary
adjective
missing
없어진, 실종된
The police are looking for a missing child.
경찰이 실종된 아이를 찾고 있어요.
Your Summary
In 1–2 sentences, say who the Mole and the Rat were looking for, and where they finally found him.
Source: Adapted from Chapter 7 of Kenneth Grahame's novel "The Wind in the Willows" (first published 1908; long in the public domain, Project Gutenberg #289). This simplified retelling and its Korean translation are original text written for SeoJae Story.
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