BY THE SECOND WINTER on Macalester, boys were coming regularly to Sparky’s rink, their skates hanging by laces tied like scarves around their necks. Three or four to a team filled the ice. For pads, they trapped old issues of Collier’s magazine to their shins with rubber ;Sparky devised the goalie’s padding; rolled-up newspapers inside a gunny sac for his legs; a baseball catcher’s gear for his face and chest. But, as one of Schulz’s characters later said, “One patch of ice doth not a winter make." David 86
時間是 1937 年，舒兹十五歲，住明尼蘇達州，聖保羅市，麥卡萊斯特大道的第二年冬天。男孩子們經常會到舒兹家後院的空地當溜冰場。三或四個小孩成隊合作地在雪地上鋪滿了冰。他們把溜冰鞋掛在胸前，鞋帶當作領帶綁在脖子上。在雪地上打曲棍球，有時候球會飛起來，不安全，所以有男孩把很厚的雜誌，一種已經發行很久叫做科利爾的雜誌，把它用橡皮筋一起綁在小腿上面做為保護。舒兹用捲起來的報紙放在麻袋裏面做襯墊給守門員綁在兩隻小腿上，還有用棒球捕手員的那一套衣服給守門員穿在瞼上和胸前。之後舒兹幽默地説，"冬天没有把這般的襯墊化成如冰似的貼片。" 謠謠譯
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