He was often mistaken for a ghost by children; and for a pollard willow by men, when, on their way home in the dusk, they saw him motionless by some rushy bank, unobservant of the decline of day.

他经常被孩认为是鬼魂；而对于一棵男柳树，当他在黄昏回家路，他看到他在一些湍急河岸一动不动，没有注意到白天衰落。