花生先生注視著我的一舉一動

花生先生坐在辦公室角落的書櫃頂上俯視我，注視著我的一舉一動。高度超過 8 英吋的存錢罐

A Mr. Peanut coin bank sits on Brad Fuqua's bookshelf in his office at the Philomath News. The bank belonged to Fuqua's father when he was a child and ended up in Fuqua's possession after his father passed away.

《花生先生》硬幣銀行位於布拉德福卡 (Brad Fuqua) 在 Philomath News 辦公室的書架上。該銀行在福卡（Fuqua）小時候屬於他的父親，並在他父親去世後歸福卡所有。

Fuqua said he finds the bank to be an odd item to keep for a lifetime, but it obviously meant something to his father.

福卡說，他發現銀行是一件可以一輩子保留的奇怪物品，但這對他的父親來說顯然意義重大。

In 1916, Planters held a contest to help the company come up with a mascot. A 14-year-old boy named Antonio Gentile won when he came up with Mr. Peanut (although, I'll add here that a commercial artist added the monocle, top hat and cane to create the final image).

1916 年，Planters 舉辦了一場幫助公司設計吉祥物的競賽。一個名叫 Antonio Gentile 的 14 歲男孩在構思《花生先生》時獲勝（不過，我要在這裡補充一下，一位商業藝術家添加了單片眼鏡、高頂禮帽和手杖來創建最終圖像）。

Fuqua can imagine his father collecting pennies and nickels in the Mr. Peanut bank — and then retrieving them when he was allowed to have candy from the downtown drugstore in the small Nebraska town where he grew up.

福卡可以想像他的父親在花生先生銀行收集硬幣和鎳幣，然後當他被允許從他長大的內布拉斯加州小鎮的市中心藥店購買糖果時，將它們取回。

A couple of years ago, Fuqua purchased a bank for his then 5-year-old son. It's not a plastic figurine but a replica of an ATM or miniature safe and he can feed it paper currency or drop in coins. The door in front resembles a vault and features a keypad where you punch in a set code to open it up.

幾年前，福卡為他當時 5 歲的兒子買了一家銀行。這不是一個塑膠雕像，而是一個自動櫃員機或微型保險箱的複製品，他可以餵牠吃紙幣或投入硬幣。前面的門類似於金庫，並設有一個鍵盤，您可以在其中輸入設定的程式碼來打開它。

The days of collecting pennies and nickels have been replaced with quarters and dollar bills. Heck, these days, you have savings accounts for children that are set up to receive automatic transfers each month from their parents.

收集便士和鎳幣的日子已經被硬幣和美鈔所取代。哎呀，現在，您為孩子設立了儲蓄帳戶，這些帳戶設定為每月從父母那裡接收自動轉帳。

(Brad Fuqua is publisher/editor of the Philomath News. He can be reached at News@PhilomathNews.com).

（Brad Fuqua 是 Philomath News 的出版商/編輯。可以透過 News@PhilomathNews.com 聯繫他）。