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儿童英语读物 Surprise Island 奇异岛 Chapter 11 苹果派

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The next morning was very cold. Benny did not want to get up at all.

“No,” he said, “it is so cold that I’m not going to get out of bed.”

Henry looked out at the ocean. “I have an idea,” he said. “It’s too cold outside today. Let’s all stay inside and paint our birds.”

“Fine!” agreed Jessie. “I’ll light the stove and we’ll shut the barn2 door. It will soon be warm.”

In spite3 of what he had said earlier about staying in bed, Benny opened the swinging door of his room, and came out wearing his red sweater. He was carrying the little toy boat which was in the package his grandfather had given him.

“I like my new boat,” said Benny, proudly. “Let’s make it go, Henry.”

“Put it in that pail4 of water, Benny,” said Henry. “You play with your boat while we get ready to work.”

The girls helped Henry put the table in the corner under the window. Then Jessie brought the bird books and some heavy paper.

“I’m going to use my new pen,” said Violet5. “Grandfather knew I needed a new one.”

“He knew I wanted a set of things like this, to fix cuts,” said Henry. “It will be handy6 to have when we go on picnics or exploring.”

Grandfather had given Jessie a set of six cooking spoons.

“Are you going to use your new spoons today, Jessie?” asked Violet.

“I might,” said Jessie. “I have a good idea for dinner this noon. I think you’ll like it, but I won’t tell you what it is until we have finished painting the birds.”

“Let’s get to work, then!” cried Henry. “I’ll cut out paper birds and you girls color them.”

“Cut out a picture of every bird we have seen,” said Jessie. “The bird book tells all the names.”

The children worked all morning. Suddenly Benny said, “Henry, I think Joe ought to have stayed here to see Grandfather.”

“I think so, too,” said Henry.

“It seems very strange,” said Violet, “for him to go off without telling us.”

“We’ll ask him when he comes back,” said Jessie. “And now, I’ll tell you my surprise for dinner. I am going to make an apple pie.”

“But you never made a pie,” said Henry, looking up.

“No,” said Jessie, “but I’m going to now.”

She took a pan7 of very small green apples out of the cupboard.

“Where did you get them?” asked Benny.

“Near the yellow house,” said Jessie. “There are two apple trees there.”

“I’ll get them ready,” said Violet.

“Good! And Henry, won’t you smooth off one of those boards for a pie-board?”

Jessie washed the new board. Then she picked up a big empty green bottle. “This is my rolling pin,” she said. “I am going to try to make some good pie crust8.”

So over and over she rolled the crust. She put some butter on it and rolled it out again. But when Jessie put the bottom crust in the pan, the crust was not big enough.

“Put a patch9 in it,” said Benny.

Jessie took a little more crust and smoothed it over the edge10 of the pan with her fingers. “This is going to be a very deep pie,” she said. “And there will be lots of apples in it.”

Benny watched Jessie roll out the top crust. “Make it big enough this time, Jessie,” he said. “There are lots of apples.”

Jessie rolled the top crust a little thinner. It was just right. When the pie was in the oven11, she began to boil some sugar and water in a saucepan.

“What’s that for?” asked Henry. He began to take the things off the table.

“Just wait,” said Jessie. “I think it’s going to be the best thing about this pie. You see there isn’t any sugar in the pie yet, so there is no juice to boil over. Why don’t you get out the bread and milk and set the table? Then everything else will be ready when the pie is done.”

When the crust was nice and brown, Jessie took the pie out of the oven. She lifted up the top crust with a knife, and carefully poured the hot juice over the apples. Then she let down the crust again.

Just as Jessie was about to cut the pie into four pieces, there was a knock at the barn door.

“Who in the world can that be?” cried Henry. He was so surprised that he almost dropped his cup.

When Henry opened the door, he was even more surprised to see a tall man standing12 there.

“I’m sorry,” said the stranger, “but I went to the fisherman’s hut1, and nobody was at home.”

“Won’t you come in?” asked Jessie.

“Thank you. It is a cold day,” said the man with a smile. “Oh, I see that you are about to have dinner. I’ll just stay long enough to ask you something.”

“Won’t you sit down?” said Henry.

“Thank you. My name is Browning,” he said as he sat down in the company chair. “A young man who went exploring for me last year has been lost. I heard that he was dead. Then later I heard that he was living on the Alden Island. This is the Alden Island, isn’t it?”

“Yes,” said Henry. “But there is nobody on the island but Captain Daniel and his friend Joe.”

“Who is this Captain Daniel?” asked Mr. Browning.

“Oh, Captain Daniel is old,” said Henry, “and I’m sure he never went exploring. He has been with my grandfather for years.”

“How about his friend Joe?” asked the man.

“He’s nice. He’s my best friend in all the world,” said Benny, proudly “all but Jessie, and maybe Watch and Captain Daniel—and of course Violet and Henry and my grandfather—”

“You have a lot of best friends,” said the man, laughing. “Tell me, what color are Joe’s eyes and hair?”

“He has brown hair and brown eyes,” said Benny, “and he has a violin.”

“I don’t think he is the one I know, then,” said the man. “I never heard that he played the violin. Just the same, I should like to see your Joe.”

“Won’t you wait for him? He is sure to come back soon,” said Jessie. “Why don’t you stay to dinner and help us eat our first apple pie?”

The man looked at the big pie and said, “If you are sure there will be enough, I think I will.”

So the pie was cut into five pieces. Violet quietly got an extra cup of milk and set another place, and the stranger sat down to a strange dinner.

“When I look at that pie,” said Mr. Browning, “my mouth fills up with water.” And certainly everyone was watching Jessie as she took out the big juicy13 pieces.

“Milk seems to go with apple pie,” said Henry.

“I never knew pie could be so delicious,” said Mr. Browning when dinner was over. “But now, if I may, I think I will see if I can find Joe.”

“We think that Joe is more than a handy man,” said Henry.

“Joe knows everything in the world,” said Benny. “He knows all the flowers and the birds and the clam14 shells15, and Indian things.”

“Indian things!” cried Mr. Browning. “It must be the very one. He was the head of a museum before he went away. I must see him.”

But Mr. Browning did not see Joe. Captain Daniel came back to the island without him. He said that Joe had gone away for a day or two.

“Is he coming back?” asked Benny, getting ready to howl16.

“Oh, yes,” said Captain Daniel. “He will come back, all right.”

When Mr. Browning left, he told Jessie that he was glad he came, for now he had met a girl who could make a wonderful apple pie with an old green bottle for a rolling pin.


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1 hut ablxt     
n.棚子;简陋的小房子
参考例句:
  • The hut is in the midst of the forest.小屋在森林深处。
  • The poor old man lived in a little wooden hut.那个贫穷的老人住在一间小木屋内。
2 barn 6dayp     
n.谷仓,饲料仓,牲口棚
参考例句:
  • That big building is a barn for keeping the grain.那幢大房子是存放粮食的谷仓。
  • The cows were driven into the barn.牛被赶进了牲口棚。
3 spite uv7wD     
n.(用于短语)虽然,不顾,尽管
参考例句:
  • He has modern ideas in spite of his great age.尽管他年事很高,但思想观念却很入时。
  • In spite of his anger,his remarks were restrained.他尽管生气,说的话还是有节制的。
4 pail 54Bz6     
n.桶,提桶
参考例句:
  • There was a pail of water on the ground.地上有一桶水。
  • She can lift a pail of water from the ground.她能把一桶水提起来。
5 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。
6 handy de0zX     
adj.方便的;手边的,近便的;手巧的
参考例句:
  • A few more traveler's checks may come in handy on holiday.多带几张旅行支票,度假时会有用的。
  • She is a handy girl who can turn her hand to anything.她是个心灵手巧的姑娘。
7 pan YKHxG     
n.平底锅;v.严厉批评
参考例句:
  • The water had all boiled away and the pan was burned.水煮干了,锅也烧坏了。
  • The eggs were frying in the pan.鸡蛋正在锅里煎。
8 crust enxzu     
n.(一片)面包皮,硬外皮,外壳;地壳
参考例句:
  • This article focuses on radiation present in the earth crust.本文重点介绍源自地壳的辐射。
  • Earth quakes can result from stresses in the earth's crust.地壳内的应力可能引起地震。
9 patch h3Xzw     
n.补丁;斑;一小块地;vt.补,修补
参考例句:
  • This patch looks a bit unprofessional.这块补丁有点像出自外行之手。
  • We managed to patch our quarrel.我们设法平息争吵。
10 edge xqoxx     
n.边(缘);刃;优势;v.侧着移动,徐徐移动
参考例句:
  • Sight along the edge to see if it's straight.顺着边目测,看看直不直。
  • She lived on the extreme edge of the forest.她住在森林的最边缘。
11 oven iJuxQ     
n.烤炉;烤箱
参考例句:
  • You put food inside an oven to cook it.你把食物放进烤箱里热一下。
  • She baked bread in an oven.她用烤炉烤面包。
12 standing 2hCzgo     
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
参考例句:
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
13 juicy Kpczta     
adj.多汁的
参考例句:
  • The flesh of the peach was sweet and juicy.桃子的果肉甜而多汁。
  • These pears are very juicy.这种梨含的水分很多。
14 clam Fq3zk     
n.蛤,蛤肉
参考例句:
  • Yup!I also like clam soup and sea cucumbers.对呀!我还喜欢蛤仔汤和海参。
  • The barnacle and the clam are two examples of filter feeders.藤壶和蛤类是滤过觅食者的两种例子。
15 shells 6cada1b5279cf64ec485c08de4d14f53     
n.(贝、卵、坚果等的)壳( shell的名词复数 );外壳;炮弹;(人的)表面性格
参考例句:
  • We collected shells on the beach. 我们在海滩拾贝壳。
  • But at last the shells cracked, one after another. 最后,蛋壳一个接着一个地裂开了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
16 howl fdgzR     
vi./n.嚎叫;怒吼;嚎哭
参考例句:
  • He gave a howl of pain.他发出一声痛苦的吼叫。
  • The child set up a howl.这个孩子大哭起来。
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