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儿童英语读物 The Stuffed Bear Mystery CHAPTER 2 Baa, Baa, Bad Day

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“Smudge was better than an alarm clock,” Benny said the next morning when the children walked into Old Mills. “He woke me up a bunch of times, so I gave him his bottle and he drank the whole thing. He’s just like a baby.”

Jessie chuckled1. “When you were a baby Henry and I used to give you a bottle when you woke us up. You always drank the whole thing, too.”

As the Aldens walked along, Miss Sayer’s van went by. The children waved, but the van didn’t slow down. The children could see Chatter3 Bear’s large red head staring straight ahead at the road.

When the Aldens arrived at the toy hospital, a small crowd had gathered around Miss Sayer’s van. Everyone wanted to see her talking bear.

“Step back!” Miss Sayer cried, beeping her horn. “Doctor Firman! Oh, Doctor Firman!”

When Doc came out to see what the fuss was about, the Aldens almost didn’t recognize him. Instead of his faded blue farm overalls4, he was wearing a crisp white doctor’s coat and a stethoscope around his neck.

Miss Sayer waved him toward her van. “Doctor Firman. I need you to help Chatter Bear right away. Do you have a stretcher to carry him in?”

“I’m the stretcher.” Doc picked up the huge red bear with both arms. “What seems to be the problem?”

“His voice,” Miss Sayer told Doc. “It isn’t working.”

Doc led everyone inside. “Let’s put Chatter Bear up on the examining table in here. I’ll see what I can do. Please step back, everyone.”

“Here, let me remove Chatter Bear’s bow,” Miss Sayer said. “His voice recorder is in the back of his neck. And he needs new batteries for his eyes. They’ve been flickering5 instead of flashing.”

Doc noticed the Aldens standing6 to the side with Mister B., who wasn’t flickering or flashing. “You children can go visit my other workroom in back. That’s where I keep my special older patients,” Doc said with a smile. “There’s a book room back there, too, full of bear books.”

The Aldens didn’t need much coaxing7. Old bears were just the kind of bears they liked. They headed straight for the door marked ANTIQUE BEAR DEN2.

Inside, shelves and cabinets were filled with old stuffed toys. Scraps8 of woolly fabrics9 and woolly fur lay in piles around a large worktable. Off to the side stood several cabinets. Bears that looked even older than Mister B. stared back at the Aldens through the glass cabinet doors.

The children discovered they weren’t alone.

A gray-haired woman with a braid wound on top of her head knelt in front of an open cabinet. The Aldens saw her before she saw them.

Jessie coughed to get the woman’s attention. “Hello. We’re the Aldens.”

The woman stood up, surprised. Her rosy10 cheeks turned even rosier11. “What are you doing in Doctor Firman’s workroom?” she asked. “He doesn’t allow children in here by themselves.”

“Sorry if we startled you,” Jessie said. “He said it was okay for us to come in here. He’s busy fixing a talking bear.”

“Hmmf!” the woman said. “Talking bears. What will be next?”

“Oh,” Violet said when she noticed the woman was looking at Mister. B. “Would you like to see our bear?”

The woman looked over at Mister B.

“Hmmm. Well, yes, your bear is an old one but not very valuable.”

Violet swallowed hard. “He’s valuable to us. We love him. He belonged to our grandfather.”

The woman nodded, and her voice changed a little. “Ah, I see,” she said. “If it belonged to someone in your family, I can see how it would be important to you.” She shut the door to the cabinet, turned the key, and walked to the far end of the room as if she couldn’t wait to get away from the children.

Jessie stooped down to read a sign on the cabinet the woman had been looking at. “‘Herr Bears.’ I wonder what they are. Very old ones, I guess. There’s only one of them in this cabinet right now. Let’s go look at Doc’s bear books, then come back,” she whispered to the other children. “That woman keeps staring at us as if she wants us to leave.”

In the book room, the Aldens found another surprise visitor. An older man, all by himself, sat in a comfy chair by the bookcases. He seemed so lost in the book on his lap, he didn’t look up when the children entered.

“Um, hello,” Violet said softly.

The man’s pen clattered12 to the floor along with a notebook.

Violet bent13 down to pick up the man’s things.

“Leave them!” the man said in a gruff voice.

Violet stepped back. “I’m sorry,” she said. “We didn’t mean to disturb you. I don’t like being interrupted, either, when I’m reading or doing my homework.”

The man gathered up his notebook, which was jammed with loose papers. “This isn’t homework, young lady. May I ask how you got in here? Doctor Firman’s library is for grown-ups.”

Violet looked around at the many children’s books about bears. “There are lots of bear books for children,” she said in her most polite voice.

“Nonsense!” the man said. “Well, I guess my peace and quiet has come to an end.”

With that, the man put on his brown wool hat and grabbed his walking stick, his notebooks, and an armful of books. He went into the Bear Den and began poking14 around. Every few minutes he glanced back at the book room as if he couldn’t wait for the Aldens to leave.

“I wonder if he’s a bear doctor, too,” Henry whispered. “Not a very friendly one like Doc, though.”

Benny was restless. He liked books, but he liked toys even more. “Can we go back and look at the old bears now?”

Jessie peeked15 through the door. “We better wait, Benny. Now Miss Sayer is in there with that man. The other woman must have left. I’d rather not have the two of them standing over us while we look at Doc’s antique bears. Let’s wait until they leave. Then we can go back.”

A few minutes later, Jessie checked the Bear Den again. “Okay, now we can look around as much as we like without anybody thinking we shouldn’t. Miss Sayer is out front bothering Doc again. I wonder if he figured out how to fix her bear.”

“I’mmm Chaaaattter Baaaaar,” the Aldens overheard the bear. “Annnnnd IIIII like toooooo talkkkkkk.”

Miss Sayer scolded Doc. “You still didn’t fix him. Now his voice is too low and too slow. Nobody will be able to understand what he’s saying. That’s not how he’s supposed to talk.”

Violet hugged Mister B. He wasn’t saying a word.

“Please, Miss Sayer,” the children heard Doc say. “I need plenty of light and space to work on Chatter Bear. Why don’t you go work on your booth at the Town Hall and come back here later?”

Miss Sayer hesitated before finally leaving Doc and Chatter Bear.

“Whew!” Doc said to the Aldens when they came out to see him. “It’s hard to work when someone stands over you.”

“Oh, would you like us to leave until you’re done?” Jessie asked.

Doc smiled. “Some interruptions I enjoy. How do you like all the antique bears in the Bear Den?”

“I like the one called Herr Bear,” Jessie said. “Whose bear is it?”

“The owner, Mrs. Withers16, isn’t arriving for a few days. That’s when the prize is given for the rarest bear in the Teddy Bear Jamboree,” said Doc. “Herr bear is so rare that he has a good chance of winning.”

Henry thought about this. “Maybe that’s why the lady with the braid opened the cabinet to look at it.”

Now Doc looked worried. “With the jamboree about to start, so many visitors stopped by, I lost track of who was here. This is why I always keep the Herr Bear cabinet locked. That particular Herr Bear is extremely rare.”

“How come?” Benny wanted to know.

“Well,” Doc said. “He’s the boy twin of a female bear called Fraulein Bear. That means ‘Miss Bear’ in German; Herr Bear means ‘Mister Bear.’ The Swiss designer made only one twin pair for his own children. The only difference between them is the color of their eyes. The girl bear has golden eyes and the boy blue eyes. The designer made other Herr Bears, but they have black eyes, and they are smaller than the twins.”

“Does the owner own Fraulein Bear, too?” Violet asked Doc. “It’s sad when brothers and sisters get separated from each other—especially twins.”

“Even if they’re bear twins,” Benny added.

“I know,” Doc agreed. “Unfortunately, no one has been able to track down the girl twin. I’ve checked all my antique bear books, searched the Internet, and asked every teddy bear collector I’ve met about Fraulein Bear. No luck so far.”

“We didn’t get a good look at Herr Bear,” Benny said. “The lady closed the cabinet.”

“Whew,” Doc said, relieved to hear this. “I must have left the key in the lock by mistake when I heard Miss Sayer carrying on before. Well, no harm done. I’ll get Herr Bear from the cabinet so you can get a good look at him.”

Everyone followed Doc into the Bear Den. When they came to the Herr Bear cabinet, the children stared inside.

Doc’s key was still in the lock. But there was no bear staring back. The cabinet was empty.


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1 chuckled 8ce1383c838073977a08258a1f3e30f8     
轻声地笑( chuckle的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • She chuckled at the memory. 想起这件事她就暗自发笑。
  • She chuckled softly to herself as she remembered his astonished look. 想起他那惊讶的表情,她就轻轻地暗自发笑。
2 den 5w9xk     
n.兽穴;秘密地方;安静的小房间,私室
参考例句:
  • There is a big fox den on the back hill.后山有一个很大的狐狸窝。
  • The only way to catch tiger cubs is to go into tiger's den.不入虎穴焉得虎子。
3 chatter BUfyN     
vi./n.喋喋不休;短促尖叫;(牙齿)打战
参考例句:
  • Her continuous chatter vexes me.她的喋喋不休使我烦透了。
  • I've had enough of their continual chatter.我已厌烦了他们喋喋不休的闲谈。
4 overalls 2mCz6w     
n.(复)工装裤;长罩衣
参考例句:
  • He is in overalls today.他今天穿的是工作裤。
  • He changed his overalls for a suit.他脱下工装裤,换上了一套西服。
5 flickering wjLxa     
adj.闪烁的,摇曳的,一闪一闪的
参考例句:
  • The crisp autumn wind is flickering away. 清爽的秋风正在吹拂。
  • The lights keep flickering. 灯光忽明忽暗。
6 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。
7 coaxing 444e70224820a50b0202cb5bb05f1c2e     
v.哄,用好话劝说( coax的现在分词 );巧言骗取;哄劝,劝诱;“锻炼”效应
参考例句:
  • No amount of coaxing will make me change my mind. 任你费尽口舌也不会说服我改变主意。
  • It took a lot of coaxing before he agreed. 劝说了很久他才同意。 来自辞典例句
8 scraps 737e4017931b7285cdd1fa3eb9dd77a3     
油渣
参考例句:
  • Don't litter up the floor with scraps of paper. 不要在地板上乱扔纸屑。
  • A patchwork quilt is a good way of using up scraps of material. 做杂拼花布棉被是利用零碎布料的好办法。
9 fabrics 678996eb9c1fa810d3b0cecef6c792b4     
织物( fabric的名词复数 ); 布; 构造; (建筑物的)结构(如墙、地面、屋顶):质地
参考例句:
  • cotton fabrics and synthetics 棉织物与合成织物
  • The fabrics are merchandised through a network of dealers. 通过经销网点销售纺织品。
10 rosy kDAy9     
adj.美好的,乐观的,玫瑰色的
参考例句:
  • She got a new job and her life looks rosy.她找到一份新工作,生活看上去很美好。
  • She always takes a rosy view of life.她总是对生活持乐观态度。
11 rosier c5f556af64144e368d0d66bd10521a50     
Rosieresite
参考例句:
  • Rosier for an instant forgot the delicacy of his position. 罗齐尔一时间忘记了他的微妙处境。
  • A meeting had immediately taken place between the Countess and Mr. Rosier. 伯爵夫人和罗齐尔先生已经搭讪上了。
12 clattered 84556c54ff175194afe62f5473519d5a     
发出咔哒声(clatter的过去式与过去分词形式)
参考例句:
  • He dropped the knife and it clattered on the stone floor. 他一失手,刀子当啷一声掉到石头地面上。
  • His hand went limp and the knife clattered to the ground. 他的手一软,刀子当啷一声掉到地上。
13 bent QQ8yD     
n.爱好,癖好;adj.弯的;决心的,一心的
参考例句:
  • He was fully bent upon the project.他一心扑在这项计划上。
  • We bent over backward to help them.我们尽了最大努力帮助他们。
14 poking poking     
n. 刺,戳,袋 vt. 拨开,刺,戳 vi. 戳,刺,捅,搜索,伸出,行动散慢
参考例句:
  • He was poking at the rubbish with his stick. 他正用手杖拨动垃圾。
  • He spent his weekends poking around dusty old bookshops. 他周末都泡在布满尘埃的旧书店里。
15 peeked c7b2fdc08abef3a4f4992d9023ed9bb8     
v.很快地看( peek的过去式和过去分词 );偷看;窥视;微露出
参考例句:
  • She peeked over the top of her menu. 她从菜单上往外偷看。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • On two occasions she had peeked at him through a crack in the wall. 她曾两次透过墙缝窥视他。 来自辞典例句
16 withers e30bf7b384bb09fe0dc96663bb9cde0b     
马肩隆
参考例句:
  • The girl's pitiful history would wring one's withers. 这女孩子的经历令人心碎。
  • "I will be there to show you," and so Mr. Withers withdrew. “我会等在那里,领你去看房间的,"威瑟斯先生这样说着,退了出去。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
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