She handled their crops , and knew what they had eaten , and if too little or too much ; her face enacting a vivid pantomime of the criticisms passing in her mind . the birds that the two girls had brought in were duly returned to the yard , and the process was repeated till all the pet cocks and hens had been submitted to the old woman - hamburghs , bantams , cochins , brahmas , dorkings , and such other sorts as were in fashion just then - her perception of each visitor being seldom at fault as she received the bird upon her knees 两个姑娘把带来的鸡一只只送回院子，不断重复着带来送去的程序，一只又一只地把老夫人所宠爱的公鸡和母鸡送到她的面前如汉堡鸡短脚鸡交趾鸡印度大种鸡多津鸡，还有其它一些当时流行的各种各样的鸡当每只鸡放到老夫人的膝上时，她都能认出来，而且几乎没有认错的。
The traveller s ambition to tell was not theirs , and , with dumb impassivity , they dismissed experiences which they did not value for the immediate incidents of this homely upland - the trivial movements of the two girls in disturbing the clods with their hackers so as to uncover something or other that these visitants relished as food 它们没有游客渴望讲述自已经历的野心，而只是不动声色地把它们不重视的经历抛开，一心注意着眼前这片贫瘠高地上的事物。它们看着那两个姑娘手拿锄头挖地的细小动作，因为她们可以从地里挖出来一些东西，它们可以当作美味的食物。
