In the spring the older boys performed the annual ritual of piling rocks the size of basketballs across the creek until the water began to rise, inch by inch, up the gray boulders.

• 每到春天，大孩子们举行“年庆“：用篮球大的石头拦溪垒造一道水堤，直到溪水一寸一寸的上涨，淹到那两块灰色大石头。