双语故事 玻璃瓶中的妖怪(4)

　　He looked around but could not see anything. Then he thought that the voice was coming out of the ground, so he shouted, "Where are you?"

　　The voice answered, "I am stuck down here among the oak roots. Let me out. Let me out."

　　The student began to scrape about beneath the tree, searching among the roots, until at last he found a glass bottle in a little opening. Lifting it up, he held it against the light, and then saw something shaped like a frog jumping up and down inside.

　　"Let me out. Let me out," it cried again, and the student, thinking no evil, pulled the cork from the bottle. Immediately a spirit ascended from it and began to grow. It grew so fast that within a few moments a horrible fellow, half as big as the tree, was standing there before the student.