1. Making acute scoops of the words. Several years ago, I was strolling the upanddown downtown streets of Asheville, looking forward to a local IPa and some good grub in a few hours. As usual, I’d made a literary pilgrimage to the bookshops, just to be sure there wasn’t an irresistible new or affordable rare book I might need to own; but there was nothing that I and my wallet couldn’t resist. Then I went into the last and easternmost of those three shops in my hometown, and looked to the left, and saw a dull brown hardback on the “Special” shelf, and for some reason picked it up. “Swing Your Mountain Gal,” the title page began, continuing: “Sketches of Life in the Southern Highlands, by Rebecca Cushman. With Illustrations by the Author. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press Cambridge.” Was this a book about square dancing? As a member of the prizewinning smoothstyle team at T. C. Roberson High School over four decades earlier, in the southern part of the county in which I now stood, I had a long-standing interest in the subject. Flipping ahead, I saw a foreword datelined “Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1934” and beginning, “I was born and grew up among the mountains of North Carolina”; I saw contents with tasty titles like “Biscuits and Honey,” “A Question of Rainbow Trout,” and “Ever’body’s Orchard”; and I saw that this book was, in fact, poetry, 150 pages of poems, verse “sketches” of highland characters and culture from nearly a century ago. Only $12? Sold!

中文翻译：

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丽贝卡·库什曼，山女郎

1. 对单词进行敏锐的独家报道。几年前，我漫步在阿什维尔市中心的街道上，期待几个小时后品尝当地的 IPa 和一些好食物。像往常一样，我去书店进行了一次文学朝圣，只是为了确保没有我可能需要拥有的不可抗拒的新书或负担得起的稀有书；但没有什么是我和我的钱包无法抗拒的。然后我走进老家这三间店中最后一间也是最东边的一间，向左一看，在“特价”的架子上看到一本暗褐色的精装书，不知为何捡了起来。“摇摆你的山丘”，标题页开始，继续：“南部高地的生活草图，丽贝卡·库什曼（Rebecca Cushman）。附有作者插图。波士顿和纽约：Houghton Mifflin 公司，剑桥河滨出版社。“这是一本关于广场舞的书吗？四十多年前，在我现在所在的县南部，作为 TC Roberson 高中获奖的平滑风格团队的成员，我对这个主题有长期的兴趣。往前翻，我看到一个写有日期的前言“北卡罗来纳州教堂山，1934 年”，开头是“我在北卡罗来纳州的群山中出生和长大”；我看到了“饼干和蜂蜜”、“虹鳟鱼问题”和“Ever'body's Orchard”等标题很好吃的内容；我看到这本书实际上是诗，150页的诗，近一个世纪前高原人物和文化的诗句“草图”。只有 12 美元？卖！我对这个主题有长期的兴趣。往前翻，我看到一个写有日期的前言“北卡罗来纳州教堂山，1934 年”，开头是“我在北卡罗来纳州的群山中出生和长大”；我看到了一些标题很好吃的内容，比如“饼干和蜂蜜”、“虹鳟鱼问题”和“Ever'body's Orchard”；我看到这本书实际上是诗，150页的诗，近一个世纪前高原人物和文化的诗句“草图”。只有 12 美元？卖！我对这个主题有长期的兴趣。往前翻，我看到一个写有日期的前言“北卡罗来纳州教堂山，1934 年”，开头是“我在北卡罗来纳州的群山中出生和长大”；我看到了一些标题很好吃的内容，比如“饼干和蜂蜜”、“虹鳟鱼问题”和“Ever'body's Orchard”；我看到这本书实际上是诗，150页的诗，近一个世纪前高原人物和文化的诗句“草图”。只有 12 美元？卖！近一个世纪前的 150 页诗歌、高地人物和文化的诗句“草图”。只有 12 美元？卖！近一个世纪前的 150 页诗歌、高地人物和文化的诗句“草图”。只有 12 美元？卖！