花生先生注视着我的一举一动

花生先生坐在办公室角落的书柜顶上俯视着我，注视着我的一举一动。高度超过 8 英寸的存钱罐

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.

《Peanut 先生》硬币银行位于 Brad Fuqua 在《Philomath News》办公室的书架上。该银行在福卡（Fuqua）小时候属于他的父亲，并在他父亲去世后归福卡（Fuqua）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.

福卡说，他发现银行是一件可以一辈子保留的奇怪物品，但这对他的父亲来说显然意义重大。

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 举办了一场帮助公司设计吉祥物的竞赛。一个名叫 Antonio Gentile 的 14 岁男孩在构思《花生先生》时获胜（不过，我要在这里补充一下，一位商业艺术家添加了单片眼镜、高顶礼帽和手杖来创建最终图像）。

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.

福卡可以想象他的父亲在花生先生银行里收集硬币和镍币，然后当他被允许从他长大的内布拉斯加州小镇的市中心药店购买糖果时，将它们取回。

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.

几年前，福卡为他当时 5 岁的儿子购买了一家银行。这不是一个塑料雕像，而是一个自动取款机或微型保险箱的复制品，他可以给它喂纸币或投入硬币。前面的门类似于金库，并设有一个键盘，您可以在其中输入设定的代码来打开它。

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.

收集便士和镍币的日子已经被硬币和美钞所取代。哎呀，现在，您为孩子设立了储蓄账户，这些账户设置为每月从父母那里接收自动转账。

(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/编辑。可以通过 News@PhilomathNews.com 联系他）。