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Flder de trabajo
Curso: Traduccin inversa II
Profesora: Liza Gonzales Alberti
Alumna: Betty Snchez Borda
Ciclo: VI
Ao: 2009
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Adaptacin
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Gump & Co
As a cultivated environmentalist I thought at once that one day something big will
be created for me to preserve the environment. I can say that is happing now.
Anybody believes that the slop from the mess halls might be useful. Sergeant
Kranz who always supported me thought that my idea was quite good. If we want
to preserve the environment, we must create something useful in idea and also
something that could give us more than one benefit. In Harvard where I studied,
professors tell us that the best idea will come up on the worst situation. When I was
calmly walking with little Forest, an idea came up. He asked to me what I was
thinking at, I told him my idea; however, he does not understand what I was trying
to tell to him. Anyway I thought Mister McGivver had to know about it. I told him
that we could use the slop from the mess halls to feed the hogs. Not only to feed
them but also to create a biodiesel plant with the hogs mess. He supported my
idea, not because he was my friend; he did it because he was really open-minded
about new ideas. Therefore, I create my own plant of biodiesel which illuminate my
entire house, I was astonished due to the idea was fairly significant. He had the
great idea of constructing especial trains for transporting the hogs in order to send
them from one farm to other saving extra expenses. Also, he thought it would be
the best idea to
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Prrafo original
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23. We got to the station an little Forrest gone around to the back of the
pickup truck an got Wanda down. We set on the depot platform, an he was
huggin her around the neck an kind of talkin to her, an I felt real sorry for him.
But I knowed I was doin the right thing. Anyhow, the train come along an he
hugged Wanda one last time an got on board. Him an me, we just shook
hands, an I watched him through the winder as the train pulled out. He give
me an Wanda a little wave, an then we gone on back to the farm.
Well, let me say this: The days that follered was crazy, an Mister McGivver, he
was busy as a one-legged man at an ass-kickin contest! First, he done
expanded the hog breedin operation tenfold. He is even buyin hogs from all
over, an so in the months that come, we has got upward of fifty or sixty
thousan hogsthey is so many of them, we lost count. But it dont matter,
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cause the more hogs we got, the more methane gas we produce, an by now
we is not only lightin up Coalville, but two other little towns down the road.
People from the federal government up at Washington says they is gonna use
us as a model example an even want to give us an award ceremony.
Prrafo corregido
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23. We went to the station and little Forrest went around to the back of the pickup
truck and Wanda got down. We sat on the depot platform, and he was hugging
around her neck and kind of talking to her; I felt real sorry for him. But I knew that I
was doing the right thing. Anyhow, the train came along; He hugged Wanda one
last time and went on board. He and I, we just shook hands and I watched him
through the window as the train had pulled out. He gave her and me a little wave,
and then we went on back to the farm.
Well, let me say this: The days that followed were crazy, and Mister McGivver, was
busy as a one-legged man at an ass-kicking contest! First, he did expand the hog
breeding operation tenfold. He is even buying hogs from all over, and so in the
months that come, we has got upward of fifty or sixty thousand hogs.They are so
many that we have lost the count. But it does not matter, because the more hogs
we have, the more methane gas we produce, and by now we are not only lighting
up Coalville, but two other little towns down the road. People from the federal
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government at Washington say they are going to use us as a model example and
even want to give us and award ceremony.
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Texto completo corregido
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Gump & CoWinston Groom
1. Next year or two, I learned more about hog farming than anybody that has got a
need or even a right to know.
Mr. McGivver kept all sort of hugs: big old Poland Chinas and registered
Hampshires, Mangalitzas, Durocs, Berkshires, Tamworths, and Cheshires. He
even had a few Merino sheep, which were sort of funny looking, but Mr.McGivver
said he had them because they were nicer to look at.
2. My job, I figured it out pretty soon, was to do just about everything. I slopped the
hogs in the morning and in the afternoon. Then Id go around with a shovel trying topick up as much pig shit as possible, which Mr.McGivver would sell to crop farmers
for manure. I fixed fences and tried to keep the barn clean. Every month or so Id
load up the truck with whatever pigs Mr.McGivver wanted to sell, and took them to
the market up at Wheeling or wherever.
3. One time I was coming from a pig auction when a great idea hit me. I was
driving the outskirts of the big old army base, when it occurred to me that they were
wasting a lot of food that might be useful. I mean, when I was in the army a long
time ago, I spent a lot of time on KP, account of I was always in hot water. And one
of the things I remembered was that there were a lot of food and stuff that just gotthrown out in the garbage from the mess halls, and it suddenly occurred to me that
maybe we could use this food to slop the hogs. This was on account of hog food is
expensive, and Mister McGivver said this was the main reason he could not
expand the pig farming as far as he wanted. And so I stopped by the headquarters
and asked to see whoever was in charge. They showed me into a little office, and
lo and behold, there was this big old black fellow setting behind a desk, and when
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he turned around, it was Sergeant Kranz, from my old company back in Vietnam.
He took one look at me and kind of jumped out of his skin!
4. Great God all mighty! Is that you, Gump? What the hell are you doing here?
When I told him, he burst out laughing until him split his pants.
Pig farmer! Why, hell, Gump with your record Congressional Medal of Honor and
all you ought to be a general by now or at least a sergeant major, like me!
Mess hall leftovers for pigs, why-well, why not? Hell, Gump, you go to see the
mess hall first sergeant. Tell him that I said to give you all the garbage that you
want. We talked about some of the old times back in the war about Bubba, the
Lieutenant Dan and some of the other fellows. I told Him about the Ping -Pong staff
in China and how I got involved with the NASA people and when I started up the
shrimp business and to play football for the New Orleans Saints. He said that all
sound pretty peculiar, but what the hell, to each his own. For him, he said, he was
a thirty-year man in the army, after which he was going to be retire and he will
open a saloon that wont allow any civilians in, what so ever, including presidents
of the United States. Finally sergeant Kranz clapped me on the back and sent me
on my way, and when I went back to the farm with a lot of garbage for the hogs,
Mister Mac Giver was beside himself.
5. God dam it, Gump, he shouted. This was the most brilliant idea I had ever
heard of! Why didnt I think of it myself! With all this slop from the army, we can
double-hell quadruple our operation in a matter of months! Mister McGivver was so
happy that he gave me a fifty-cents-an-hour raise and let me have Sundays off. I
used the time to go down to the town and sort of ask around. Coalville wasnt much
of a place. A few thousand people maybe, and a lot of them were out of work on
account of the coal seam, that caused the town to be there in the first place, had
done played out. The mine entrance was just a big old hole in the side of the hill
overlooking the town now, and a lot of the guys sat around the courthouse square
and played checkers. There was a diner there called Ettas, where some of the old
miners go to drink coffee, and sometimes Id set there and drink coffee alongside
them and hear them telling stories about the time when the mine was running. To
tell the truth, it was kind of depressing, but it was better than hanging around the
hog farm all the time.
6. Meanwhile, it became my job to arrange for the mess hall slop to be brought to
our hog farm. First thing we had to do was to separate pig food from the other shit,
like napkins and paper bags and boxes and cans and all. Sergeant Kranz figured
out a way to do this, however. He made all the KPs in the various barracks divide
the garbage into separate cans, marked Edible Trash and Inedible Trash. This
worked well enough until visitors day at the army base came around and some of
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the mamas and daddies of the soldiers complained to the general about what their
sons might be getting to eat around there. After that, we figured out a new code for
the cans, but it worked just as well. In a few months our operation was working so
well that Mister McGivver had to buy us two new trucks just to haul the garbage to
our farm, and within a year, we had seven thousand an eighty-one hogs to our
name.
7. One day I got a letter from Mrs. Curran. She said it was going to be a summer
time pretty soon, and she thought it might be a good idea for little Forest to spend
some time with me. She didnt put it exactly in the letter, but I got the impression
little Forest was not doing too well. It was like boys will be boys, but also she
added that his school grades werent high as they used to be and it might be
helpful if he could spend some time with his daddy. Well, I wrote her back saying
to sent him on up on the train when school let out, and a few weeks later, he
arrived at the station in Coalville.
8. When I first saw him, I could hardly believe it! He had grown about a foot and a
half and he was a good-looking boy, with sandy brown hair and good clear blue
eyes like his mother had. But when he saw me, he wasnt smiling.
How is it going? I asked.
What is this place? he said, looking around and sniffing like if he had arrived at
the city dump.
This is where I live now, I told him.
Yeah? he said.
I got the impression little Forest had developed an attitude.
Their used to be a coal mine here, I said, before it run out.
Grandma said you are a farmeris that so?
Sort of. Do you want to go on up to the farm?
I might as well, he said. I dont see any reason to stay here.
So I took him up to Mister McGivvers farm. Half a mile before we arrive, little
Forest was holding his nose and fanning the air. What is that smell? he asked.
It is the hogs, I said. What we raise on the farm are hogs.
Shit! You expect me to stay here all summer with a bunch of stinking hogs!
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Look, I said, I know I havent been a good father to you, but I am trying to get us
both by, and this is the only work Ive got right now. And I have to tell you, you
arent supposed to be using words like shit around here. You are too young for
that.
He didnt say anything for the rest of the drive, and when we got to MisterMcGivvers house, he went inside to his room and shut the door. He didnt come
out until suppertime, and when he did, he mostly just sat at the table and played
with his food. After he went to bed, Mister McGivver lit up his pipe and said, The
boy doesnt seem to be very happy, does he?
I recognize he isnt I said, but I think hell come around in a day or so. After all,
he hasnt seen me in a pretty long time.
Well Gump, I think it might be a good thing for him to pull his weight around here,
you know. It might make him grow up a little bit.
Yeah I said, maybe so. I went to bed myself and I was feeling pretty down. I
closed my eyes and tried to think about Jenny, hoping shed turned up to help me,
but she didnt. This time, I was on my own.
9. Next morning, I got Little Forest to help me slop the pigs, and the whole time he
acted disgusted. All that day and the next one, he did not say anything to me
except when he had to, and then it was not but a word or two. Finally, I had an
idea.
Do you have a dog or anything at home? I asked
No.
Well, do you want a pet?"
No.
You know, I bet you do, if I showed you one".
Yeah? What sort of pet?
Follow me, I said.
I took him to a little stall in the barn, and there was a big old Duroc sow, nursing
half-a-dozen piglets. They were about eight weeks old, and I had my eye on one of
them in particular for a while. I figured it could be the pick-of-the-litter, so to speak.
It had good clear eyes and came when you called it, and it was white with little
black spots, and its ears perked up when you talked to it.
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10 I call this one Wanda, I said, picking it up and handing it to little Forest. He
didnt look too happy taking it, but he will, and Wanda begun rooting and licking
him like a puppy will.
How did you come to call her Wanda? he said finally.
Oh, I dont know. I sort of named her after an old friend of mine.
Well, after that, little Forest seemed happier. Not so much with me, but Wanda
became his constant companion. She was ready to be weaned anyhow, and Mister
MsGivver said it was okay with him, if it made the boy happy.
11. One day it was time to truck some hogs up to Wheeling for the auction. Little
Forest helped me to load them in the truck, and we set off early in the morning. It
took half a day to get there, and then we had to come back for another load.
How come you always driving all those hogs up to Wheeling in this old truck? heasked, which was probably the longest words he had had for me so far.
Because we have to get them there, I guess. Mister McGivver has been doing it
for years.
Well, dont you know that theres a railroad runs right through Coalville? Go up to
Wheeling, because it said so when I rode in here on it. Why dont you just put the
hogs on the railroad and let them take up?
I dont know, I said. Why?
Because you would save time, for crying out loud! He looked very exasperated at
me.
Whats time to a hog? I asked.
Little Forest just shook his head and looked out the window. I guess he was now
figured out that he got a pea brain for a daddy.
Well, I said, maybe that is a good idea. Ill talk to Mister McGivver about it in the
morning
But little Forest wasnt impressed. He was just setting there with Wanda in his lap.
Looking kind of scared and alone.
12 Fantastic! shouted Mister McGivver. Trains to carry the hogs to auction! Itll
save us thousands! Why on earth didnt I think of that!
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He was so excited he was about to burst, and he picked up little Forest and gave
him a big old hug. Youre a genius, my boy! Why, were all going to be rich!
Anyhow, Mister McGivver gave us both a raise and let us have Sunday and
Saturday off, so on weekends Id take little Forest down to Coalville to Ettas diner
and we got to talk to the old miners and other folks that came around. They werereally nice to little Forest, and he was all the time asking them questions about
stuff. It wasnt a bad way to spend the summer, actually, and as the weeks went by
I felt that little Forest and me were getting somewhat closer.
13. Meantime, Mister McGivver was trying to solve a very messy problem, namely,
what were we going to do with all the pig shit that was piling up as our operation
expands? By now, we had got more than ten thousands hogs, and that number
was expending everyday. By the end of the year, Mister McGivver said we ought to
have upwards of twenty-five thousand hogs and about two pounds of pig shit per
hog, per day well, you can see where this was leading to.
Anyway, Mister McGivver was selling the hog shit for manure at a pretty fast clip,
but at this point he was run out of folks to buy it, and besides, the folks in town
were complaining louder and louder about the smell we were creating.
We could try to burn it, I said.
Hell, Gump, they are already bitching about the odor as it is. How do you think
they would react to a bonfire of fifty thousand pounds of pig shit everyday?
14. Over the next few days we kicked around a few more ideas, but none of themwere going to work. Then one night at the supper table when the conversation
turned to pig shit again, little Forest piped up.
Ive been thinking, he said, suppose we use it to generate power?
Do what? asked Mister McGivver.
Look here, Little Forest said, we got that big old coal seam running right
underneath our property.
What makes you think that? said Mister McGivver.
Because one of the miners told me so. He said the coal mine goes for nearly two
miles from where the entrance is in town right across this land where the hogs are,
and stops just before it gets to the swamp.
15. Is that so?
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Its what he told me, little Forest said. Now, look at this he pulled out a
composition book that he had brought and laid it out on the table. When he opened
it up, damned if it didnt contain some of the weirdest drawings I have ever seen,
but it looks like little Forest might have saved our asses again.
My God! Mister McGivver hollered after he had looked at the drawings. It iswonderful! First rate! You deserve a Nobel Prize, young man!
What little Forest had come up with is this: First we plug up the entrance to the coal
mine back in town. Next, we drill holes down to the shaft under our property and
bulldoze the pig shit into it everyday. After a while, the pig shit would be to ferment
and gave off methane gas. Once that happens, we will have a vent for the gas that
run through some kind of machinery and stuff that little Forest had figured out and
in the end it will wind up in a big old generator that will produce enough power not
only to run our farm, but also it will run the power for the whole town of Coalville!
16. Just think of it, Mister McGivver shouted, a whole city run on pig shit! And
furthermore, its so simple that even an idiot could run it! I wasnt so sure about
this last statement.
Well, that was just the beginning. It took the rest of the summer to get the operation
going. Mister McGivver had to talk to the city fathers, but they came up with a
government grant to let us start the deal. Then, pretty soon we got all sorts of
engineers and drillers. There were EPAs people, equipment drivers and
construction workers milling around on the farm. Also there were people installing
the machinery in a big old blockhouse which they had built. Little Forest was
named honorary chief engineer. He was so proud, he was about to burst.
17. I went on with my duties slopping hogs, cleaning barns and pens, and so on,
but one day Mr. McGivver came and told me to get the bulldozer because it was
time to start shoveling the pig shit into the mine shaft. I worked at that business for
a week or so, and when it was done, they put a big mechanical seal over the holes
they had drilled and little Forest said all we got to do now was to sit and wait. That
afternoon, as the sun began to go down, I watched him disappear over a little hill
that leads down to the swamp, old Wanda trotting along beside him. She was
getting big now, and so was he and I had never been prouder of anything in my
life.
One or two weeks later, when it was almost the end of summer, little Forest came
and told me it was finally time to start up the pig-shit-power operation. He took Mr.
McGivver and me into the blockhouse just before dark, where there was a big heap
of machinery with a bunch of pipes, dials, and gauges, and he began explaining to
us how the thing worked.
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18. First, he said the methane gas is released from the mine shaft through this
pipe, and a flame ignites it here. He pointed to what looked like a big old hot water
machine. Then, he said, the condenser gets the steam compressed and it turns
this generator, which makes electrical energy that moves out through these wires,
and thats where the energy comes from. He stepped back, smiling from ear to
ear.
This is amazing cried Mister Mc Giver. Edison, Fulton, Whitney, Einstein - none
of them have done better!
Little Forest rapidly began turning valves and handlers and throwing switches, and
pretty soon the needles on the pressure instruments begun to climb and the meters
on the wall begun to turn around. All of a sudden, lights flickered on in the
blockhouse and we were all jumping for joy. Mister McGivver rushed outside and
begun to holler- all lights in the house and barns were on, bright as day, and in the
distance we can see lights coming on in Coalville, too.
19. Eureka!" Mister McGivver shouted. We have turned a sow's ear into a silk
purse, and we are now eating high on the hog!"
Anyhow, next day little Forest got me back into the blockhouse and begun showing
me how the operation ran. He explained all about the valves, gauges and meters,
and after a while, they didnt seem so hard to understand. I just had to check them
all once a day and make sure that one or two of the gauges were not registering
more than they should be, and if this or that valve was turned on or off. I guess
Mister McGivver was right, even an idiot like me could run this thing.
There is something else I have been thinking about, little Forest said that night at
supper.
What is that, my brilliant lad? Mister McGivver said. Well, I have been thinking.
You said you had to slow down the breeding a little bit because there were just so
many hogs that you cant sell in Wheeling and any other places around here
That is correct
20. So what Im thinking is, why not ship the hogs overseas? Like South America,
Europe or even China?
Ah, well, my boy said Mister McGivver, that is another fine idea. The problem is
that it costs so much to ship hogs that it becomes uneconomical. I mean, by the
time you got them to some foreign port, the shipping costs eat up your profit.
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Thats what Ive been thinking about, he said, and he pulled out the little
composition book, and damned as if they werent another whole section of
sketches that he had drawn.
Fantastic! Unbelievable! Terrific Mister McGivver cried, leaping up. Why, you has
been at should be in the Congress or something!
Little Forest had been at it again. He had done a sketched model of a hog transport
ship. I did not understand all of it exactly, but the gist of it is this: Inside the ship,
the hogs are kept in layers from top to bottom. The flooring is nothing but heavy
mesh steel, and so when the hogs on the top layer shit drops on the second layer,
and the second layer on the third and so on, until all the hogs finally winds up in the
bottom of the boat, where there is a machine like we have made here that runs the
entire ship.
21. So the energy costs are virtually null! Mister McGivver roared. Why, think of
the possibilities! Shipping hogs for less than half of the normal cost! This is simply
amazing! Whole fleets of ships powered by shit! And it does not have to stop here,
either! Think of it trains, planes, airplanes! Even washers and dryers and
television sets! Screw atomic energy. This may usher in a whole new era! He was
so excited that he was waving his hands, and for a minute I worried he was going
to have a fit or something.
First thing in the morning, Im going to turn this over to somebody Mister
McGivver said. But first, I want to make an announcement. Gump, you have been
so helpful around here that I want to show my gratitude by counting you in on one
third of our profits. Now, how about that?
Well, I was kind of surprised, but it sounded pretty good, and I told him so.
Thanks I said.
22. Finally, the time came for little Forest to go back to school. I was not looking
forward to it, but it had to be. The leafs were just beginning to turn on the sycamore
trees, when I carried him to the train station in the truck. Wanda was in the back,
because she was now too big for the cab.
I want to ask you something little Forest said.
What is that?
Its about Wanda. I mean, you are not going to
Oh, no - no, I am not going to do anything like that. I think well keep her on here
as brought hog, you know? Shell be fine.
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Do you promise it?
Yes.
Well, thanks.
I want you to be good when you get home, hear? And do what your grandma tellsyou to do, okay?
Yes.
He just sat there looking at the window, and I had the feeling that there was
something wrong.
You are unhappy about anything, are you?
Well, I was sort of wondering, why I cant just stay here and help run the hog
farm?
Because you are too young and you have to go back to school. Well see about
that later, you know? But theres no time right now, okay. Maybe you can come
back for Christmas or something, huh?
23. We went to the station and little Forrest went around to the back of the pick up
truck and Wanda got down. We sat on the depot platform, and he was hugging
around her neck and kind of talking to her; I felt real sorry for him. But I knew that I
was doing the right thing. Anyhow, the train came along; He hugged Wanda one
last time and went on board. He and I, we just shook hands and I watched himthrough the window as the train had pulled out. He gave her and me a little wave,
and then we went on back to the farm.
24. Next, Mister McGivver has gone to work on the project of the building pig-shit
fleet, and almost within no time, he has got three huge ships under construction
over the Atlantic Ocean at Norfolk, Virginia. This is where he spends much of his
time now; he has left most of the hog farming business to me. Also, we have had to
employ about a hundred workers from town, which was a great relief to them, as
most were out-of-work miners.
Furthermore, Mister McGivver has expanded the hog-slop garbage collection to
every military base within three hundred miles, and we have got fleets of trucks
picking up the garbage, and what we dont use ourselves, we sell it to other
farmers.
We have become a great national enterprise, Mister McGivver said, but we are
leveraged up to the hilt.
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I asked him what that meant, and he said, Debt, Gump, debt! We have had to
borrow millions to build those ships and buy more land for the hog farm and trucks
for the garbage operation. Sometimes at night I am worried about going to break,
but we are too deep to quit now. We are going to have to expand the methane gas
operation to meet expenses, and Im afraid well have to raise our prices.
I asked him what I could do to help.
Just keep shoveling shit as fast as you can, he said.
25. So thats what I did.
By the end of the fall, I figured that we had got somehow between eight hundred
thousand and around one million pounds of pig shit down in the mine; the
operation was running full steam night and day. We had to double the plants size
just to keep it going.
Little Forest was due to arrive for Christmas, but about two weeks before
that they had scheduled the ceremony to honor us for our contributions to society.
The whole town of Coalville was decked out in Christmas decorations, little colored
lights and stuff all run by our plant. Mister McGivver could not come home for the
celebration on account of he was busy trying to get the ship fleet built, but He told
me to accept the award in his absence.
26. The day of the ceremony, I put on my suit and tie and drove into town. There
were people there from all overnot only Coalville, but also the little towns nearby
and a bunch of buses with folks representing environmental civic organizations.From Wheeling, the governor and the attorney general have come down, and from
Washington have come the United States senator of West Virginia. Sergeant Kranz
has also come over from the army post, and the mayor of Coalville was already
making his speech when I arrived.
Never in our wildest dreams, he says, did we ever believe that our deliverance
was at handsaid, as it were, by a herd of swine, and the ingenuity of Mr.
McGivver and Mr. Gump!
27. The ceremony took place in the town square below the little hill where the mine
entrance was, and the platform was decked out with red, white, and blue little
bunting American flags. When they saw me coming, the high school band
interrupted the mayors speech and begun to play God Bless America, and the
five or six thousand people in the crowd begun to holler, clap and cheer as I
walked up the platform steps.
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Everybody there shook my handthe mayor, the governor, the attorney general,
the senator, as well as their wiveseven Sergeant Kranz, who was wearing his
dress uniform. The mayor concluded his talk by saying what a fine fellow I am and
he thanked me for revitalizing the town of Coalville by creating this marvelous
invention. Then he says everybody should stand for the playing of The Star-
Spangled Banner.
28. Just before the band begun to play, there was a slight sort of tremor in the
ground, but nobody saw much to notice it but me. During the first verse, the
rumbling in the ground begun again and this time some folks started looking
around like kind of nervous. When they went to the high part of the song, there was
a third rumble, a lot of louder than the first time; it caused the ground shook and
the stores window pane across the street fell out. It was now about to dawn on me
that something bad was fixed to happen.
I had been so nervous that morning when I was trying to get into my suit and tiethat I had forgot all to release the main pressure gauge at the power plant. Little
Forrest had always told me that it was the most important thing to do every day, on
account of something serious might go wrong. By now, most folks are still singing,
but some are sort of mumbling to each other, turning their heads to see what is
happening. Sergeant Kranz leaned over me and asked, Gump, what in the hell is
going on?
29. I was fixed to tell him, when he found out for himself.
30. I looked up at the hill where the plugged-up mine entrance was, and suddenly
there was this humongous explosion! A big flash of light an flames, and then KA-
BLOOIE!The whole thing done blew up!
Next instant, everything got completely dark, and I thought we all had been killed!
But soon I heard a kind of low moaning around me; when I wiped off my eyes and
looked around, it was a sight to see. Everybody on the speaking platform was still
standing there, kind of in shock or something, and they were all covered in pig shit,
head to toe.
Oh, my God! shouts the governors wife. Oh, my God!
I looked around some more, and damned if the whole town is not covered in pig
shit, including, of course, the five or six thousand people in the crowd out in front.
The buildings, cars, buses, ground, streets, treeseverything, about three or four
inches deep! The guy playing the tuba in the band was the strangest sight of all.
He was so surprised, I guess, that when the explosion happened, he was blowing
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a long note and didnt quitjust kept on trying to blow his note with the tuba full of
pig shit, and it looked like sort of a souffl about to get done.
I turned around again, and there was Sergeant Kranz, staring me right in the face,
eyes all bugged out, teeth baredsomehow hed even managed to keep his army
hat on.
Gump! he hollers. You fucking idiot! What is the meaning of this?
Before I could answer, he reached out to grab me by the throat; I figured what is
coming next, so I leaped over the railing and run away as fast as I can. Sergeant
Kranz and everybody else, then who was able, anyway, begun to chase me, too. It
seemed like a familiar situation.
31.I was trying to get home to the farm, but I realized there was no place to hide
me there, probablyat least not from a mob that has just been hit with a million
pounds of Poland China pig shit, and blaming it on me. But I ran just as fast as Icould, which is considerable, and by the time I got to the house, I had outdistanced
them somewhat. I was trying to pack my bag, but suddenly, here they come up the
road, hollering and yelling, so I run out the back door and went into the barn and
got Wanda, who look at me kind of funny but follows me anyhow. I run, past the
pens across the pasture and damned if all the hogs did not start chasing us, too
even the ones in the pens, what broke through and joined the mob.
32. The only thing I can think of is maybe to get into the swamp, so thats what I
did. I hid there till sundown, while a lot of them were cussing and shouting all
around me. Wanda, she had enough sense to keep quiet, but when night come, itwas cold an wet and there was flashlights shining through the swamp, and ever so
often I can pick out a person carrying a pitchfork or hoe, just like in the
Frankenstein movie. They even got helicopters overhead, shining their lights, and
loudspeakers demanding that I come out and surrendered.
To hell with that! I say, and then my salvation came along. I heard a train in the
distance on the far side of the swamp and figured that was my only chance to
make a break for it! Wanda and me, we slogged out onto the higher ground and by
some miracle managed to jump a boxcar on board. Inside, there was a little dim
candle burning, I made out a fellow sitting there in a heap of straw.
33. Who in hell are you? he asked.
Gump is my name, I said.
Yeah, what is that with you?
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Her names Wanda.
You got a girl with you?
Sort of, I said.
What do you mean, sort ofyou got some kind of transvestite there?
No. Shes a polled Duroc hog, might win some prizes one day.
Hog? he says. Great God almighty! I had nothing to eat in a week.
I could see this might be a long trip.