People lived in them yet , but it was dangersome , because sometimes a strip of land as wide as a house caves in at a time 因为有时候会有一大段土，有一所房子那么大，突然塌了下来。
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There was a little one - horse town about three mile down the bend , and after dinner the duke said he had ciphered out his idea about how to run in daylight without it being dangersome for jim ; so he allowed he would go down to the town and fix that thing 离河湾下游三英里路，有一处巴掌大的小镇。吃过饭后，公爵说，他已经琢磨出了一个主意，能叫木筏子在白天行驶，又不致叫杰姆遭到危险。他说他要到那个镇子去亲自安排一切。
