Mr. Dawson was an old grouch, and everyone in town knew it. Kids knew not to go into his yard to pick a delicious apple, even off the ground, because old Dawson, they said, would come after you with his ball bullet gun. 道森先生是个坏脾气的老...
The Golden Fleece King Athamus of northern Greece had two children,Phrixus and Helle.After he left his first wife and mar ried Ino,a wicked woman,the two children received all the cruel treatment that a stepmother coulddevise,At one timethe...
In past times there were a king and a queen, who said every day, Oh, if only we had a child! but they never received one.以前,有个国王和王后一直没有孩子,他们为此非常伤心苦恼。 Then it happened one day while the queen was sitting in her bath, that a...
Here were once five peas in one shell, they were green, the shell was green, and so they believed that the whole world must be green also, which was a very natural conclusion. The shell grew, and the peas grew, they accommodated themselves to their...
The Patient and the Ship Owner This incident occurred one morning outside Albert Sch-weitzer's hospital in the African jungle.A patient had gone fishing in another man's boat.The owner of the boat thought he should be given all the fish that were ca...
A Roc's flight of ten thousand li-A bright future In the Chinese classic 《Chuangtze》, there is a legend like this: Once upon a time, a gigantic fish named Kun lived in the northern sea. No one knew how large it actually was. This fish could change...
HERE was once a butterfly who wished for a bride, and, as may be supposed, he wanted to choose a very pretty one from among the flowers. He glanced, with a very critical eye, at all the flower-beds, and found that the flowers were seated quietly and...
A little boy asked his mother:Why are you crying? Because I am a woman.She told him. I don't understandhe said. His mum just hugged him and said:And you never will. Later the little boy asked his father:Why does mother seem to cry for no reason? All...
HERE was once a fine gentleman who possessed among other things a boot-jack and a hair-brush; but he had also the finest shirt-collar in the world, and of this collar we are about to hear a story. The collar had become so old that he began to think...
The Cock and the Jewel(公鸡和宝石) A cock, scratching in the farmyard for food for the hens, turned up a precious stone that shone and sparked in the sun. "Well," said the Cock, "I don’t kn...