Colts overflowed the paddock onto the front lawn, even as her eight children overflowed the rambling house on the hill, and colts and sons and daughters and hunting dogs tagged after her as she went about the plantation.

• 她蓄养的小马驹越来越多了，已挤出圈门跑到前面草地上来了，就像她的八个孩子挤出了山上那座散乱不堪的房子似的，于是每当她在农场里转悠时，马驹、儿女和猎狗，都成群地尾随着她。