He described the prairies as magical: the grasshoppers flew over the grass, they did not hop. An expanse of unbounded grassland connected as one with the sky, and stars, mysteriously sprinkled like sesame seeds, rolled along the earth.
他對草原的形容可真神奇：草地上的蚱蜢是飛來飛去，而不是跳來跳去的；一望無際的草原，天地相連，於是密密如芝麻的星星在遠處是在地上滾動的… …。