I speak with some trepidation of my blackbird pie, for it might have brought down on me Federal dishonor, or roughly speaking, jail. I began the shooting of the blackbirds and the making of the pies in a spirit of innocent experimentalism.

我说起我的黑鸟派时有些惶恐，因为它可能给我带来联邦的耻辱，或者粗略地说，坐牢。我本着天真的实验主义精神开始射黑鸟和做馅饼。