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「赤毛のアン」は難しいという声がありますので，より易しい（著作権の問題のない）英文も記事に加えたいと考えていました。
「アンクル・トムの小屋」の原作を小学生（9〜12歳）向けに書き直した英文（とても良いできだという評価です）が Lit2Go で提供されていましたので，「赤毛のアン」と同様の手法で，並行して提供していくことにしました。
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
(Told to the Children)
By
Harriet Beecher Stowe
H. E. Marshall ed.
Chapter 1
0Uncle Tom and Little Harry are Sold
1Very many years ago, instead of having servants to wait upon them and work for them, people used to have slaves. 2These slaves were paid no wages. 3Their masters gave them only food and clothes in return for their work.
4When anyone wanted servants he went to market to buy them, just as nowadays we buy horses and cows, or even tables and chairs.
5If the poor slaves were bought by kind people, they would be quite happy. 6Then they would work willingly for their masters and mistresses, and even love them. 7But very often cruel people bought slaves. 8These cruel people used to beat them and be unkind to them in many other ways.
9It was very wicked to buy and sell human beings as if they were cattle. 10Yet Christian people did it, and many who were good and kind otherwise thought there was no wrong in being cruel to their poor slaves. 11“They are only black people,” they said to themselves. 12“Black people do not feel things as we do.” 13That was not kind, as black people suffer pain just in the same way as white people do.
14One of the saddest things for the poor slaves was that they could never long be a happy family all together—father, mother, and little brothers and sisters—because at any time the master might sell the father or the mother or one of the children to someone else. 15When this happened those who were left behind were very sad indeed—more sad than if their dear one had died.
16Uncle Tom was a slave. 17He was a very faithful and honest servant, and his master, Mr. Shelby, was kind to him. 18Uncle Tom’s wife was called Aunt Chloe. 19She was Mr. Shelby’s head cook, and a very good one too she was. 20Nobody in all the country round could make such delicious pies and cakes as Aunt Chloe.
21Uncle Tom and Aunt Chloe lived together in a pretty little cottage built of wood, quite close to Mr. Shelby’s big house.
22The little cottage was covered with climbing roses, and the garden was full of beautiful bright flowers and lovely fruit trees.
23Uncle Tom and Aunt Chloe lived happily for many years in their little cottage, or cabin, as it was called. 24All day Uncle Tom used to work in the fields, while Aunt Chloe was busy in the kitchen at Mr. Shelby’s house. 25When evening came, they both went home to their cottage and their children, and were merry together.
26Mr. Shelby was a good man, and kind to his slaves, but he was not very careful of his money. 27When he had spent all he had, he did not know what to do to get more. 28At last he borrowed money from a man called Haley, hoping to be able to pay it back again someday.
29But that day never came. 30Haley grew impatient, and said, “If you don’t pay what you owe me, I will take your house and lands, and sell them to pay myself back all the money I have lent to you.”
31So Mr. Shelby sold everything he could spare and gathered money together in every way he could think of, but still there was not enough. 32Then Haley said, “Give me that slave of yours called Tom—he is worth a lot of money.”
33But Mr. Shelby knew that Haley was not a nice man. 34He knew he did not want Tom for a servant, but only wanted to sell him again, to make more money. 35So Mr. Shelby said, “No, I can’t do that. I never mean to sell any of my slaves, least of all Tom. 36He has been with me since he was a little boy.”
37“Oh very well,” said Haley, “I shall sell your house and lands, as I said I should.”
38Mr. Shelby could not bear to think of that, so he agreed to let Haley have Tom. 39He made him promise, however, not to sell Tom again except to a kind master.
40“Very well,” said Haley, “but Tom isn’t enough. I must have another slave.”
41Just at this moment a little boy came dancing into the room where Mr. Shelby and Haley were talking. 42He was a pretty, merry little fellow, the son of a slave called Eliza, who was Mrs. Shelby’s maid.
43“There now,” said Haley, “give me that little chap, as well as Tom, and we will say no more about the money you owe me.“
44“I can’t,” said Mr. Shelby. 45“My wife is very fond of Eliza, and would never hear of having Harry sold.”
46“Oh, very well,” said Haley once more, “I must just sell your house.”
47So again Mr. Shelby gave in, and Haley went away with the promise that next morning Uncle Tom and little Harry should be given to him, to be his slaves.
吹き出し中の語句の説明で，例えば，wait について「［2 vi.❹］」とあれば，
下の文献番号［2］つまりジーニアス英和で，wait の自動詞（vi.）の欄の❹番目にその訳が掲載されている，ということです。
一部の辞書にしか掲載されていないような場合や辞書で探しにくい場合に，そのように明示しています。
［1］ ウィズダム英和辞典 第３版（2012）
［2］ジーニアス英和辞典 第５版（2015）
［3］ ランダムハウス英語辞典 第２版（1993）
［4］ リーダーズ英和辞典 第３版（2012）
