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儿童英语读物 棚车少年 Boxcar Children 1 四个饥饿的孩子

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I—The Four Hungry Children

ONE WARM NIGHT four children stood in front of a bakery2. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from.

The baker1’s wife saw them first, as they stood looking in at the window of her store. The little boy was looking at the cakes, the big boy was looking at the loaves3 of bread, and the two girls were looking at the cookies.

Now the baker’s wife did not like children. She did not like boys at all. So she came to the front of the bakery and listened, looking very cross.

“The cake is good, Jessie,” the little boy said. He was about five years old.

“Yes, Benny,” said the big girl. “But bread is better for you. Isn’t it, Henry?”

“Oh, yes,” said Henry. “We must have some bread, and cake is not good for Benny and Violet4.”

“I like bread best, anyway,” said Violet. She was about ten years old, and she had pretty brown hair and brown eyes.

“That is just like you, Violet,” said Henry, smiling at her. “Let’s go into the bakery. Maybe they will let us stay here for the night.”

The baker’s wife looked at them as they came in.

“I want three loaves of bread, please,” said Jessie.

She smiled politely at the woman, but the woman did not smile. She looked at Henry as he put his hand in his pocket for the money. She looked cross, but she sold him the bread.

Jessie was looking around, too, and she saw a long red bench5 under each window of the bakery. The benches6 had flat red pillows7 on them.

“Will you let us stay here for the night?” Jessie asked. “We could sleep on those benches, and tomorrow we would help you wash the dishes and do things for you.”

Now the woman liked this. She did not like to wash dishes very well. She would like to have a big boy to help her with her work.

“Where are your father and mother?” she asked.

“They are dead,” said Henry.

“We have a grandfather in Greenfield, but we don’t like him,” said Benny.

Jessie put her hand over the little boy’s mouth before he could say more.

“Oh, Benny, keep still!” she said.

“Why don’t you like your grandfather?” asked the woman.

“He is our father’s father, and he didn’t like our mother,” said Henry. “So we don’t think he would like us. We are afraid he would be mean to us.”

“Did you ever see him?” asked the woman.

“No,” answered Henry.

“Then why do you think he would be mean to you?” asked the woman.

“Well, he never came to see us,” said Henry. “He doesn’t like us at all.”

“Where did you live before you came here?” asked the woman.

But not one of the four children would tell her.

“We’ll get along all right,” said Jessie. “We want to stay here for only one night.”

“You may stay here tonight,” said the woman at last. “And tomorrow we’ll see what we can do.”

Henry thanked her politely.

“We are all pretty tired and hungry,” he said.

The children sat down on the floor. Henry cut one of the loaves of bread into four pieces with his knife, and the children began to eat.

“Delicious!” said Henry.

“Well, I never!” said the woman.

She went into the next room and shut the door.

“I’m glad she is gone,” remarked8 Benny, eating. “She doesn’t like us.”

“Sh, Benny!” said Jessie. “She is good to let us sleep here.”

After supper the children lay down on their red benches, and Violet and Benny soon went to sleep.

But Jessie and Henry could hear the woman talking to the baker.

She said, “I’ll keep the three older children. They can help me. But the little boy must go to the Children’s Home. He is too little. I cannot take care of him.”

The baker answered, “Very well. Tomorrow I’ll take the little boy to the Children’s Home. We’ll keep the others for awhile, but we must make them tell us who their grandfather is.”

Jessie and Henry waited until the baker and his wife had gone to bed. Then they sat up in the dark.

“Oh, Henry!” whispered9 Jessie. “Let’s run away from here!”

“Yes, indeed,” said Henry. “We’ll never let Benny go to a Children’s Home. Never, never! We must be far away by morning, or they will find us. But we must not leave any of our things here.”

Jessie sat still, thinking10.

“Our clothes and a cake of soap and towels are in the big laundry11 bag,” she said. “Violet has her little workbag. And we have two loaves of bread left. Have you your knife and the money?”

“Yes,” said Henry. “I have almost four dollars.”

“You must carry Benny,” said Jessie. “He will cry if we wake him up. But I’ll wake Violet.

“Sh, Violet! Come! We are going to run away again. If we don’t run away, the baker will take Benny to a Children’s Home in the morning.”

The little girl woke up at once. She sat up and rolled off the bench. She did not make any noise.

“What shall12 I do?” she whispered softly13.

“Carry this,” said Jessie. She gave her the workbag.

Jessie put the two loaves of bread into the laundry bag, and then she looked around the room.

“All right,” she said to Henry. “Take Benny now.”

Henry took Benny in his arms and carried him to the door of the bakery. Jessie took the laundry bag and opened the door very softly. All the children went out quietly. They did not say a word. Jessie shut the door, and then they all listened. Everything was very quiet. So the four children went down the street.


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1 baker wyTz62     
n.面包师
参考例句:
  • The baker bakes his bread in the bakery.面包师在面包房内烤面包。
  • The baker frosted the cake with a mixture of sugar and whites of eggs.面包师在蛋糕上撒了一层白糖和蛋清的混合料。
2 bakery ry8z6O     
n.面包店
参考例句:
  • I bought a cake from the bakery.我在面包店买了个蛋糕。
  • There's a bakery near our house.在我家附近有一个面包店。
3 loaves 6e54ba3ed3dc61be1c8c21c661c71330     
n.大块烤过的食物,块;一条[块]面包( loaf的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • Bakers form dough into loaves. 面包师把生面做成大面包。
  • He bought two loaves of bread. 他买了两条面包。
4 violet 8h3wm     
adj.紫色的;n.紫罗兰
参考例句:
  • She likes to wear violet dresses.他喜欢穿紫色的衣服。
  • Violet is the color of wisdom,peace and strength.紫色是智慧的,和平的和力量的颜色。
5 bench JQKy1     
n.长凳,工作台
参考例句:
  • There's a bench under the tree.树下有一条长凳。
  • In good weather,look for a quiet park bench.在好天气时,找一条安静的公园长凳。
6 benches 808a2c94ce7409280a94738efeb6f3d1     
n.法官( bench的名词复数 );(木制)长凳;(英国议会的)议员席;场边的运动员休息区
参考例句:
  • He resigned as Home Secretary and returned to the back benches. 他辞去了内政大臣的职务,回到后座议员席。
  • These benches belong under the trees. 这些长凳该放在树下。 来自《简明英汉词典》
7 pillows 9243d69ddeac95adbf19a0da14bf9af0     
n.枕头( pillow的名词复数 );用作枕头的东西
参考例句:
  • She lay back against the pillows. 她半躺半坐靠在枕头上。
  • He sat propped up in the bed by pillows. 他靠着枕头坐在床上。 来自《简明英汉词典》
8 remarked d28ddca90e0db3c66c8c4365a9770d81     
v.谈论,评论( remark的过去式和过去分词 );注意到…
参考例句:
  • She remarked casually that she was changing her job. 她当时漫不经心地说要换工作。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Mrs. Morse remarked that she seemed a very nice girl. 莫斯太太评论说她像是个好女孩。 来自《简明英汉词典》
9 whispered ac3eda029cd72fefda0d32abc42aa001     
adj.耳语的,低语的v.低声说( whisper的过去式和过去分词 );私语;小声说;私下说
参考例句:
  • She sidled up to me and whispered something in my ear. 她悄悄走上前来,对我耳语了几句。
  • His ill luck has been whispered about the neighborhood. 他的不幸遭遇已在邻居中传开。 来自《简明英汉词典》
10 thinking ggzz2u     
n.思考,思想;adj.思考的,有理性的;vbl.想,思考
参考例句:
  • All thinking men will protest against it.凡是有思想的人都会抗议这件事。
  • Thinking is mainly performed with words and other symbols.思想主要是用言语和其他符号来表达的。
11 laundry P23xY     
n.洗衣店,洗衣房;已洗好的衣物,待洗衣物
参考例句:
  • Please send clothes to the laundry.请把这些衣物送往洗衣店。
  • There's a lot of laundry in the basket.筐子里有许多要洗的衣物。
12 shall lzFwQ     
v.aux.(主要用于第一人称)将
参考例句:
  • I shall always love you.我将永远爱你。
  • Which club shall we join?我们要参加哪个社团?
13 softly HiIzR4     
adv.柔和地,静静地,温柔地
参考例句:
  • He speaks too softly for her to hear.他讲话声音太轻,她听不见。
  • She breathed her advice softly.她低声劝告。
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