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儿童英语读物 迈克的谜案 Mike's Mystery Chapter 11 馅饼日

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CHAPTER 11
Pie Day

Everyone was tired that night. Even Mike and Benny did not talk very long. They put down a soft rug for Spotty, but he would not sleep on it. He lay down on the hard floor just under Mike’s bed.

“That’s just like a dog,” said Mike. “They never stay where you put them.”

“Lady always sleeps in Aunt Jane’s room and Watch always sleeps in Jessie’s room,” said Benny. “He is really her dog, you know.”

“No,” said Mike, “I thought he was your dog.”

“Well, he is all our dog,” said Benny.

“I know what you mean, Ben,” said Mike, yawning. He was too sleepy to argue.

“Good night,” said Ben and went to his own room.

Both boys were soon asleep.

Up at the mine, Mrs. Wood and Pat went to sleep in their new beds. Mrs. Wood wanted to get up very early next morning.

It was about six o’clock when Mrs. Wood called Pat to a breakfast of eggs and bacon, toast and cereal1 and two glasses of milk. “I can hardly wait to begin a pie,” she said to Pat. “You get washed at the sink and then come and eat. After that you can help me.”

Pat said, “I bet Mike and Ben will be up here early, too. They don’t want to miss anything, do they, Ma?”

“No. They don’t miss very much,” said Mrs. Wood with a smile.

Just as she finished washing the dishes, the other children came to the door.

“One of the men gave us a ride,” said Benny. “See what Violet has!” Violet had a piece of wood in her hands. There were big black letters on it. It was the new sign to go over the door.

Mrs. Wood read it. “MIKE’S MOTHER’S PLACE. Isn’t that grand?”

Henry climbed up and nailed it over the door.

“Now tell us what to do, Mrs. Wood!” cried Jessie. She was excited. Her cheeks were very pink.

“Well, I have a good rule for pies,” said Mrs. Wood. “You do not touch the crust with your hands. You put it between two pieces of wax paper before you roll it out. First you girls mix some flour with shortening2 in those big bowls. I’ll show you.”

“Jessie knows how,” said Benny. “She is a fine pie maker3.”

“Yes, I am sure she is,” said Mrs. Wood with a smile. “You boys turn on the ovens to 400. It’s a wonderful stove you bought! Then set thirty of those tins in a row on the long table.”

Soon everyone was hard at work. Mrs. Wood said, “I shall make only two kinds of pie the first day. We’ll make cherry and apple. So you boys open the big cans, and leave them on the table. Just keep the dogs out of the way.”

“I’ll tie them up,” said Mike.

“Oh, no,” said Jessie. “Don’t tie Watch. Listen, Watch, lie down!” Watch lay down at once and looked up at Jessie. He wagged4 his tail, but he did not get up.

“I wish Spotty could do that,” said Mike. “I’ll have to tie him.”

“Some day we could teach him,” said Benny. “But it will take a whole box of fig5 bars. When he starts to lie down, you give him a piece of a fig bar. When he gets up you say No! loud, like that.”

“I’ll make some fig cookies some day,” said Mrs. Wood laughing.

They made thirty pies. The girls helped roll out the crust between two papers. They lifted the crust onto the tins without touching6 it.

“Oh, isn’t this fun!” said Violet.

“You children seem to have fun just being kind to somebody,” said Mrs. Wood with a loving look at her.

“Somebody’s coming!” shouted Mike from the open door. “It’s a lady from town.”

The lady laughed. She said, “I hear you sell pies.”

“Yes,” said Mike. “But they aren’t done yet.”

“When will they be done, little boy?” asked the lady.

“I’m not a little boy,” answered Mike, “but I’ll ask my mother.”

“About ten o’clock,” Mrs. Wood called out.

“About ten o’clock,” repeated Mike.

“I’ll be back then,” said the lady. “I want an apple pie.”

“We’ll save one for you,” said Mike. “I’ll know you by your face. It’s pretty.”

“Well, thank you,” said the lady, laughing. “Are you Mike?”

“Yes, I’m Mike, and it’s my mother making pies.”

When the pies were baked, they smelled delicious. They were nice and brown. The lady came back for her pie.

She said, “I told some people down on the street, and they are coming to buy pies.”

“I hope there will be enough for the miners,” said Mrs. Wood. “We really made the pies for the men.”

“Let’s make some more!” cried Jessie. “It will be too bad if the men don’t get any.”

The girls soon rolled out more pies. The boys opened another can of cherries. It was lucky they did so. When the whistle blew at noon, the men came pouring out of the mine. They saw the new sign, and they all wanted hot pies. Soon all the pies were sold.

“We haven’t any left for us,” said Mike sadly.

“Yes, Mike, I saved one pie,” said his mother. “It was burned a little. I can cut it into seven pieces.”

“I like pie burned a little,” said Benny.

The family all sat around the long table to eat lunch. Maggie had sent up a large basket of sandwiches and salad and pink lemonade with ice in it. Everyone was very hungry.

“What do we do now?” asked Violet.

“We don’t make any more pies, that’s sure,” said Mrs. Wood. “We have done enough work for today.”

“Let’s have that race!” said Benny. “Let’s race the dogs!”

“O.K.,” said Mike. “Let’s race them down behind my old pink house. There is a big empty lot there. Plenty of room.”

Jessie wanted to wash the dishes first. She filled the dish pan with hot soap suds. Then one by one, she slid the plates in, and washed them with a sponge7. “I just love to do this,” she said.

She rinsed8 them in hot water and set them in the drainer.

“We don’t have to wipe them,” she said. “They will dry themselves, because they are so hot.”

In a very short time, the children were all in the back lot with the dogs. They had two enormous bones from the store.

Henry said, “Now Mike, you hold Spotty, and Jessie will hold Watch.”

“Right on this line,” said Benny.

“Yes,” agreed Henry. “Then I will take one bone and go way down there by the fence. Ben, you take the other bone and come with me. Let the dogs smell the bones first.”

The dogs wanted the bones very much. They tried to get away and follow Henry, but Jessie and Mike held them tight.

“You count, Violet,” shouted Henry from the fence. “Say one, two, three, go, and then you let go of the dogs!”

When Henry and Benny reached the fence, they sat down on the ground with the bones. They held up the bones for the dogs to see.

“One, two, three, go!” shouted Violet. Away went the dogs. Watch went for Henry. Spotty went for Benny. They ran very fast. They were very even. Once Spotty got ahead. Then Watch got ahead. Then they were even again.

Suddenly Spotty seemed to turn. He slowed down. He skidded9, like a car. Then he ran back, smelled around and began to dig.

“What’s the matter?” cried Henry, puzzled.

“What’s the matter with Spotty?” yelled10 Mike.

Spot went on digging. Then Watch stopped running. He trotted11 back to Spotty and began to dig, too.

Spotty began to growl12. But he was not growling13 at Watch.

“Oh, isn’t that strange?” said Jessie. The children came up and watched the dogs. The dirt flew everywhere. Spotty went on growling.

“Something must be buried here,” said Henry. “Maybe a bone.”

“It can’t be a bone,” said Mike. “Spotty wouldn’t growl at a bone.”

“Well, whatever it is, it is buried very deep,” said Henry. “Just look at that hole.”

Then Spotty began to growl and bark at the same time. He made a great noise. He put his white teeth into something, and sat back with it growling. It was a man’s blue hat.


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1 cereal Wrzz1     
n.谷类,五谷,禾谷
参考例句:
  • I have hot cereal every day for breakfast.我每天早餐吃热麦片粥。
  • Soybeans are handled differently from cereal grains.大豆的加工处理与谷类的加工处理不同。
2 shortening 34169da9aa081a170130567c4125b9b7     
n.缩针,简写;酥油/雪白奶油v.弄短,缩短( shorten的现在分词 )
参考例句:
  • Instead, sarcomere shortening occurs when the thin filaments'slide" by the thick filaments. 此外,肌节的缩短发生于细肌丝沿粗肌丝“滑行”之际。 来自辞典例句
  • Use peanut or safflower oil or solid vegetable shortening for frying. 用花生或红花油,或者食用油来起酥。 来自互联网
3 maker DALxN     
n.制造者,制造商
参考例句:
  • He is a trouble maker,You must be distant with him.他是个捣蛋鬼,你不要跟他在一起。
  • A cabinet maker must be a master craftsman.家具木工必须是技艺高超的手艺人。
4 wagged 60283031c63ec779719fd6c0e9e67a65     
v.(使)摇动,摇摆( wag的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • The dog wagged its tail with pleasure. 那条狗高兴得直摇尾巴。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • She wagged her finger with mock severity. 她故作严厉地摆了摆手指。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 fig L74yI     
n.无花果(树)
参考例句:
  • The doctor finished the fig he had been eating and selected another.这位医生吃完了嘴里的无花果,又挑了一个。
  • You can't find a person who doesn't know fig in the United States.你找不到任何一个在美国的人不知道无花果的。
6 touching sg6zQ9     
adj.动人的,使人感伤的
参考例句:
  • It was a touching sight.这是一幅动人的景象。
  • His letter was touching.他的信很感人。
7 sponge bFpzX     
n.海绵,海绵状的东西;v.用海绵擦拭,吸收掉, 抹掉
参考例句:
  • The child is screwing water out of a sponge.小孩正把海绵中的水挤出来。
  • You should try to sponge out the memory of the accident.你该努力抹除那次事故的记忆。
8 rinsed 637d6ed17a5c20097c9dbfb69621fd20     
v.漂洗( rinse的过去式和过去分词 );冲洗;用清水漂洗掉(肥皂泡等);(用清水)冲掉
参考例句:
  • She rinsed out the sea water from her swimming-costume. 她把游泳衣里的海水冲洗掉。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The clothes have been rinsed three times. 衣服已经洗了三和。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
9 skidded 35afc105bfaf20eaf5c5245a2e8d22d8     
v.(通常指车辆) 侧滑( skid的过去式和过去分词 );打滑;滑行;(住在)贫民区
参考例句:
  • The car skidded and hit a lamp post. 那辆汽车打滑撞上了路灯杆。
  • The car skidded and overturned. 汽车打滑翻倒了。
10 yelled aeee2b86b284e7fbd44f45779d6073c1     
v.叫喊,号叫,叫着说( yell的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • He yelled at the other driver. 他冲着另一位司机大叫。
  • The lost man yelled, hoping someone in the woods would hear him. 迷路的人大声喊着,希望林子里的人会听见。 来自《简明英汉词典》
11 trotted 6df8e0ef20c10ef975433b4a0456e6e1     
小跑,急走( trot的过去分词 ); 匆匆忙忙地走
参考例句:
  • She trotted her pony around the field. 她骑着小马绕场慢跑。
  • Anne trotted obediently beside her mother. 安妮听话地跟在妈妈身边走。
12 growl VeHzE     
v.(狗等)嗥叫,(炮等)轰鸣;n.嗥叫,轰鸣
参考例句:
  • The dog was biting,growling and wagging its tail.那条狗在一边撕咬一边低声吼叫,尾巴也跟着摇摆。
  • The car growls along rutted streets.汽车在车辙纵横的街上一路轰鸣。
13 growling growling     
n.吠声, 咆哮声 v.怒吠, 咆哮, 吼
参考例句:
  • We heard thunder growling in the distance. 我们听见远处有隆隆雷声。
  • The lay about the deck growling together in talk. 他们在甲板上到处游荡,聚集在一起发牢骚。
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