爱华网16.Jack and theRobber（傑克與強盜）
Jack was a farmer's boy. Once he drove his cart to market. He hadbutter and eggs to sell.
He met a woman on the way. She gave him a piece of silver for alittle butter. Then he met a boy. The boy gave him a piece ofsilver for six eggs.
Soon Jack had plenty of silver in his pocket. As Jack went along, aman came up to him, and said, “Stop!”
So Jack stopped on the way again. The man gavehim some wine. Jack drank it, and fell asleep on the roadside. WhenJack woke up, his silver was not in his pocket. It was allgone.
The man was a robber, and poor Jack went homesadly.
17.AbrahamLincoln（亞伯拉罕‧林肯）
ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S father and mother were verypoor and the family lived in a log cabin in the wood.
Abraham had to walk about five miles to school, as there was noschool near his eleven years old, he had to leave school and workHe loved to study and after working hard all day, he user to studyto study by the firelight. He grew to be a wise and good man. Hewas elected President of the United States.
At that time there was a war between the North and the South. Thepeople of the South wanted to own slaves, but those of the Norththought that it was wrong to own slaves.
Then the South and the North fought for four years and at last theNorth won and the slaves were set free.
18.A BadDream（一個惡夢）
One afternoon Ben was playing in the back yard, A big black catjumped over the fence and lay down among his mother'splants. Ben crept up to the cat. He caught it bythe tail and dropped it into a tub of water.
His mother looked out of the window and saw him.She called him into the house and scolded him for such a cruelty.Then she told him that he must go to bed and stay there tillevening.
Before long Ben fell asleep. He dreamed that he grew very small Avery very big cat seized him in its mouth and ran away with him Hekicked and screamed, but he could not get away, At last the catdropped him and he fell into a big pond. He sand down, down intothe cold water. Then he woke up.
19.King Alfred and theCakes（阿佛列王與糕餅）
King ALFRED O f England once led his army to fight with anotherarmy and was beaten. So he had to run away through the woods andswamps to save his life.
One evening he came to a woodcutter’s hut. He was very tired andhungry, so he begged the woodcutter’s wife to give him something toeat and a place to sleep in. He was ragged and dirty and she didnot know that he was the king. She felt so sorry for him that shetold him to come in and gave hem a seat near the fire.
She was baking some cakes. She said to King Alfred, “ I must go andmilk the cow. Watch the cakes and do not let them burn. “ The kingwas willing to do this, but he kept thinking about his army andsoon forgot all about the cakes. In a few minutes the woman cameback and found the cakes burning. She was so angry that she struckthe king with a stick and cried, “ You lazy fellow! You want toeat, but you do not want to work.”
20.Tony'sLie（湯尼的謊言）
One day Tony was a very bad boy. He told a lie to his mother. Thatnight felt very unhappy. He did not want to play with thechildren.
He sat on the doorstep alone. He looked up in the sky and saw thebig round moon. He thought that it was looking down upon him,because it knew about the lie. He ran down the street to get awayfrom it, but it kept following him. Then he crept into the houseand went to bed, but the moon looked at him through the window. Hepulled the sheet over his head, but he could not sleep. Then hecrawled under the bed and lay there in the dark. He thought andthought about the lie.
At last he decided to tell his mother all about it. He told her thetruth and she forgave him. He promised never to tell a lieagain.
He went back to bed and was soon fast asleep. He dreamed that themoon smiled down upon him.
21.Jack and theBeanstalk（傑克和豌豆）
(Part 1)
Once upon a time there was a poor widow who had an only sonnamed Jack. All that they had was the house they lived in and acow. At last they became too poor to keep the cow. The widow saidto Jack one day, “Take this cow to the market and sell her. Thenwe’ll be able to buy bread. Try to get as much money as you can.”Jack, who was a good, but thoughtless boy, started for the marketwith his cow. On his may to t he market he met a man who had a pigwith him. “Good morning,” said the man. “Good morning,” answeredJack. “Won’t you give me your old cow for this fat young pig?” saidthe man. Jack thought it a good idea. So he ax-changed his old cowfor the young pig He walked on happily until he met another man whohad some fine beans. “These are magic beans,” said the man. “I’llgive you one of them, if you give me that pig.” Jack thought itwonderful to have a magic bean. So he consented to it and carriedthe bean proudly back home. He showed the bean to his mother. “Isthis all that you have got for that cow?” she said. “Now, we haveon cow to give us milk. All we have is this bean.” She got angry.She threw it out of the window. The bean fall in their garden.During that night is sprouted and grew in a wonderful way. Whenjack and his mother woke the next morning, they saw that thebeanstalk had grown so high that they could not see the top Jackmade up his mind to climb to the top of the beanstalk. Higher andhigher up he climbed until he found himself near a window of an oldcastle. Looking in, Jack saw a giant eating his, dinner. The giantfinished his dinner and ordered his servant to bring his chieftreasures, a hen and a harp. Lay eggs,” said the giant to the hen.The hen began to lay eggs. They were eggs of gold. “Play,” said thegiant to the harp. The harp began to play sweet music. The harpplayed on and on until the giant grew tired and fell asleep.
(Part 2)
Jack had crawled into the room by this time. When the giant wasasleep, a servant beckoned to Jack. “Look here. These are thetreasures which the giant stole from your father before you wereborn,” said he. “Take them back to your mother, if you like. But,be quiet. He may wake.” Jack thanked him, and picked up the hen andthe harp very carefully. When he was climbing down the beanstalk,the harp happened to make a loud noise. The giant woke. Jackclimbed down the beanstalk, with the hen and the harp under hisarms. The giant ran down after Jack, but Jack ran faster than thegiant. When he was near his home, he called out to his mother,“Mother, bring an ax.” His mother brought an ax. She saw her sonclimbing down the beanstalk. As soon as he got down to the ground,he chopped down the beanstalk. Down fell the giant with thebeanstalk. He broke his neck, and was dead. Jack and his motherwere rich all the rest of their lives and lived happily everafter.
22.The HappyShoemaker（快樂的鞋匠）
(1)
Once there lived a rich merchant and a poor shoemaker in thesame house. The merchant occupied in the same house. The merchantoccupied the second floor, but the shoemaker lived and worked in asmall room on the first floor. The shoemaker was one of thehappiest persons on earth. He worked from morning till night,singing merrily. His heart was filled with joy, whenever he lookedat the boots and shoes to be repaired. Now the merchant upstairswas so rich that he hardly knew how much wealth he had. He wasalways counting over his gold and silver coins far into the night.Even in bed his uneasiness about his riches kept him awake when atlast he had been asleep for an hour or two, up came the song of thehappy shoemaker, who was an early riser. It continued all day andwas a trouble to the merchant day by day the merchant grew more andmore tired through want of sleep he asked a wise friend of his howhe could put an end to the shoemaker's song. “Well, if I were you,I would give the shoemaker a hundred pounds,” answered his friend.“You are rich enough to do that, I suppose. Ask for nothing inreturn. Simply give the money. ”The merchant readily followed theadvice.
(2)
When the shoemaker opened the bag that had been sent by themerchant, he was amazed to find shining coins. “I must hide thisfrom the eyes of my neighbors. If they see it, they will think thatI have stolen it,” he thought. “I will keep it away even from mywife.” So he hid the bag of money under the floor. From then on heavoided his neighbors as much as he could. His wife who had beenthe best companion to him, became troublesome now his mind was toomuch set on the money bag to attend to his work with diligence. Hecould not sing merrily now. Whenever he thought of the money bag,he became uneasy and unhappy. At length one day his wife said tohim in tears, ---“dear husband, what makes you so sad and uneasy?All our neighbors say you have changed. I wish you were as good andgentle as before.” He was so sorry for her that he told hereverything. “We were happy before the merchant gave us the money, ”said his wife, when she heard the story. “We have good health. Wehave plenty of work to do. What more do we need? Send the moneyback to the merchant, and the happy life that was once ours willreturn to us.” The shoemaker agreed and went to the merchant toreturn the bag of money. “Sir” he said, “let me return this to you.By giving this to me, you have spoiled my happy and easy life. So Iwant to have it back by returning your present.” Merry song wasagain heard all over the house. He was as happy as he had everbeen.
23.The ThreeWishes三個願望
A man and his wife were always wishing for luck.One night a fairy came to them and said, “You may have threewishes.” In the morning the woman went to a neighbor’s house to getsome bread. She saw a nice pudding there. When she came back, shesaid, “I wish I had a pudding like that! She did not think of thethree wishes, but there was a pudding beside her. “Silly!” criedthe man, you have lost one of your wishes, and we have only apudding. I wish it were on your nose!” At that, the pudding jumpedup and grew fast to her nose. “Silly, yourself!” cried the woman,“you have lost another wish. We have only one wish more.” “Whatshall it be?” asked the man. “We must wish this pudding off,” saidthe woman. “I can’t have it on my nose.” So they wished it would goaway, and away it went. They had had their three wishes, but theywere on better off than when the fairy came to them.
24.ChildeRowland恰德羅蘭
(1)Long ago there was a little princess named Ellen. She livedwith her mother, the queen in a great castle y the sea. She hadthree brothers. One day. As they were playing ball, one of herbrothers threw the ball over the castle. Ellen ran to get it, anddid not come back. The three brothers looked for her. They lookedand looked, but they could not find her. Day after day went by. Atlast the oldest brother went to a wise man and asked what man. Thewise man told him as he had told the oldest brother. Then the nextbrother set out to find the dark tower. The youngest brotherwaited. He waited long, but no one came back. Now the youngestbrother was called childe Rowland. At last childe Rowland went tohis mother, the queen, and said, “mother, let me go and find thedark tower and bring home Ellen and my brothers. “I cannot let yougo. You are all that I have now,” said the queen. But childeRowland asked again and again, until at last the queen said, “go,my boy. ”then she gave him his father’s sword, and he set out. Hewent to the wise man and asked the way. The wise man told him andsaid: “I will tell you two things: one thing is for you to do, andone thing is for you not to do. “the thing to do is this: when youget to the country of the elves, hold your father’s sword, pull itout quickly, and cut off the head of anyone who speaks to you,until you find the princess Ellen. “the thing not to do is this:bite no bit and drink no drop until you come back. Go hungry andthirsty while you are in the country of the elves.” Childe Rowlandsaid the two things over and over, lest he should forget. Then hewent on his way. He went on and on and on, until he came to somehorses with eyes of fire. Then he knew he was in the country of theelves. A man was with the horses. “where is the dark tower?” askedchilde Rowland. “I cannot tell. Ask the woman that keeps the hens,”said the man. Childe Rowland took the sword and off went the man’shead. Then he went on and on, until he came to some hens with eyesof fire. An old woman was with them. “where is the dark tower?”asked childe Rowland. “go and look for a hill,” said the old woman.“go around the hill three times. Each time you go around say:“open, door! Open, door! Let me come in. “when you have gone threetimes around, door will open. Go in.” “when you have gone threetimes around, door will open. Go in.”
(2)Childe Rowland did not like to cut off the head of the oldwoman, but he thought of what the wise man had told him. So he tookhold of the sword, and off went her head. After this he went on andon and on, until at last he came to a hill. He went three timesaround it, and each time he said: “open, door! Open, door! Let mecome in.” when he had gone three times around, a door opened. In hewent. The door shut after him, and he was in the dark. Soon hebegan to see a dim light. It seemed to come from the walls. He wentdown a long way, and at last he came to another door. All at onceit flew open, and he found himself in a great hall. The walls wereof gold and silver, and were hung with diamonds. How the diamondsshone! And there sat the princess Ellen in a big chair of gold,with diamonds all about her head. When she saw childe Rowland, shecame to him and said: “brother, why are you here? If the king ofthe elves comes, it will be a sad ay for you.” But this did notfrighten childe Rowland. He sat down and told her all that he haddone. She told him that the two brothers were in the tower. Theking of the elves had turned them into stone. Soon childe Rowlandbegan to be very hungry, and asked for something to eat. All atonce he thought of what the wise man had said. So he threw the bowldown upon the floor, and said: “Not a bit will I bite, Not a dropwill I drink, till Ellen is free.” Then they heard a great noiseoutside, and someone cried out:---” fee-fi-fo-fum! I smell the blood of an Englishman!” thedoor of the hall flew open and the king of the elves came in.childe Rowland took his sword. They fought and they fought. At lastchilde Rowland beat the king of the elves down to the ground.“stop!” cried the king of the elves. “I have had enough.” “I willstop when you set free the princess Ellen and my brothers,” saidchilde Rowland. “I will set them free,” said the king. He went atonce to a cupboard and took out a blood-red bottle. Out of thisbottle he let a drop or tow fall upon the eyes of the two brothers,and up they jumped. Childe Rowland took the hand of his sisterEllen and went out of the hall, and up the long way. The twobrothers went after them. And they all came out from the hill andfound their way back to their own home. How glad their motherwas!
25.The Monkey and theTurtle猴子與海龜
One day a monkey who was very hungry met with aturtle creeping along the road. “My dear Slow Foot, can’t you findanything to eat for me?” said the monkey. “O yes, Sly Head, I can,”said the turtle. “ Come this way; there is a banana-plant just overthere.” Soon they came to the banana-plant bearing lot of ripefruit. The monkey climbed the plant, but before he could pick somebananas, the turtle cried, “Run, Sly Head, run! Here comes a man!”Instantly he came down and ran in a hurry. But the turtle could notrun, but she caught the monkey’s tail in her mouth and the monkeypulled her away. When they were safe, the monkey said, “Slow Foot,that man did not catch you because I pulled you away.” “O no, SlyHead, on!” the turtle said, “you were not pulling me. I was pushingyou.”
26.Dickens and HisCat狄更斯與他的貓
Charles Dickens, the famous English novelist, wrote a great manybooks. He had a cat of which he was very fond. She was a finePersian cat with pure white fur. One evening, as he was absorbed inreading one of his favorite books by a candle-light, the candlesuddenly went out. He was surprised, but took a match, struck it,and lighted the and lighted the candle again, and once more satdown to read. You can imagine his astonishment when he again foundhimself in complete darkness. He looked around the room, lightedthe candle again, and began to read once more. After a while hestopped and looked up. He saw that his cat was trying to put outthe light with her paw. The cat’s intentions were quite clear tohim-she wanted him to stop reading and play with her a while. Ofcourse he did this, and besides he gave her some milk. The cat wasquite contented. She went over and curled herself into a ball onthe sofa to take a nap. Then Dickens continued to read, and thistime pussy did not interrupt him again.
27.Talking to aFish與魚交談
One day a negro went to a fish shop to buy somefish for his dinner. He picked up a fresh fish, and after examiningit carefully, he held it up to his nose and smelled it. “Hey!What’s this?” cried the master of the shop. “Why do you smell thatfish, do you think it,” answered the negro. “Then what were youdoing with your face so close to the fish?” asked the master. “Iwasn’t smelling the fish; I was only talking to it,” answered thenegro. “Talking to it!” said the shopkeeper, why, what on earth didyou say to it?” “I asked him if there was any negro. “Well, andwhat did the fish say to that?” asked the shopkeeper. “He said hedidn’t know the latest news, because he had been away from the seaor more than three weeks.”
28.PeterPan彼得潘
Once there lived in England a little girl whose name was WendyDarling She had two brothers john Darling and Michael Darling.Their house was small house made of brick, and they kept big dogcalled Nana, and Nana acted as nurse to the three children.
Nana was very clever, andshe always took care that the children would put on pajamas afterwarming them at the fire Sometimes the children would not go tobed, but Nana always made them do as they were always made them doas they told. Mrs. Darling loved Nana and she had very good reasonfor keeping Nana as the children’s nurse One night, when she wentinto the nursery, she saw a strange Shape flying to and fro in thedim light.
When this Shape saw Mrs. Darling, it rushed to the window afterit, just as ran out into the night, Mrs. Darling suddenly closedthe window. And Mrs. Darling rushed to the window after it ran outinto the night, Mrs. Darling suddenly closed the window. The Shapefled; but something fell on the floor at Mrs. Darling’s feet. Itwas the shadow of this strange flying Shape. Mrs. Darling picked upthe shadow and put it in a drawer; but she felt very anxious aboutthe safety of her children. She was afraid that the Shape mightcome back and hurt them, but she hoped that Nana would come to thenursery and protect them from all danger. But some days after thatNana was led to the yard to sleep in her kennel. That night thewindow was pushed open and the strange Shape slipped into the roomand began to dance about.
“Where is my shadow?” it cried. Nana barked furiously outside.“I can’t be happy without my shadow. Tinker Bell, Tinker Bell,where is my dear little shadow?” cried the Shape. At that a tinyBall of fire flew into the room, and sprang round the room.Wherever it went it made a tinkling sound like a little silverbell. Now this little ball of fire was really a fairy girl. Shetold the Shape where the shadow was. Soon the drawer was opened,the shadow was pulled out, and the Shape danced round the room withdelight. The Shape could find its shadow, it was true; but it couldnever put it on again. And so all the delight went, and the shapewas so unhappy that tears filled its eyes and rolled down itscheeks. Just at that time, Wendy woke up. She was not afraid, butasked the little Shape why it was crying. Then she asked it itsname, and the shape told her that it was Peter Pan. Wend got aneedle and some thread and sewed the shadow on to Peter Pan, andthen Peter Pan danced with joy, for wherever he went the shadowfollowed him on the floor. Peter Pan then told Wendy the story ofhis life. He said that he lived in a place called never-Never-Land,with a lot of little boys who had all been dropped out of theirbaby carriages by careless nurses. He also said that they livedwith fairies ever would remain happy boys in this enchantingNever-Never-Land. He then told her that when the first babylaughed, the laughter broke into little pieces, and each littlepiece became a fairy, and went dancing about the world. Butwhenever a child said that it did not believe in fairies, then oneof the fairies died. Peter Pan said that it was a dreadful andwicked thing for a child to say that it did not believe in fairies.There was only one thing that made them sad, he sad, and that wasthe want of a mother; all the boys in Never-Never-Land wanted tohave a mother very much indeed. Wendy asked if there was any littlegirl among them who could pretend to be their mother; but Peter Panshook his head and answered that girls never dropped out of theirbaby-carriages; they were far too clever. This pleased Wendy, andshe loved Peter Pan. “Oh, wend,” cried Peter, “come and live withus and be our mother!” Wendy’ s brothers woke up. Peter Pan said hewould teach them all to fly if Wendy would only come and be theirmother. When the children heard that they could learn to fly, theywere quite excited, and at once began to jump up into the air. Butevery time they jumped they fell onto the ground, “Look and fly asI do,” cried Peter; and so saying, he flew gracefully high up intothe air, and sailed noiselessly round the room. Soon the childrenlearned, and all began to fly round the room with cries of delight.Then the windows were opened wide, and tinker bell led the way intothe night. Peter held Wendy’ s hand and they floated away into thestarry night. Very soon Mrs. Darling, who had just come home fromthe theater, rushed into the nursery with Nana at her heels. But itwas too late. The children had already left fornever-never-land.
(2)Now, the boys in never-never-land were beginning to getanxious about Peter Pan, who was their leader. He was away for along time, and they were afraid of wolves and pirates. By and bythey saw something that looked like a large white bird in the sky.As they looked at it, tinker bell suddenly shone on the trees, andtold them that Peter Pan wanted them to shoot this bird at once. Sothey ran and got bows and arrows, and shot the bird. Suddenly downit fell—what do you think it was?-----poor Wendy fell with an arrowin her breast. But Wendy was not dead. Soon she felt well, and thenwith her brothers round her, and Peter Pan holding her hand, shepromised all the boys to be their mother. Then they began workingand built Wendy funny little house, with john’s silk-hat for achimney; and every body was very, very happy. But tinker bell wasvery jealous of Wendy. Though they were so happy in their house,there were on the lake near the forest some terrible pirates. Thecaptain of these terrible pirates was named James hook. All hiscrew were afraid of him and trembled when they saw him. His longblack hair was fearful, the wrinkles on his face was fearful, hiseyes were fearful, and his voice was fearful. But, above all, hisright hand was most fearful. It wasn’t a common hand at all; it wasan iron hook. Peter pan had once driven this terrible pirate intothe sea, and a huge crocodile had bitten off his hand and part ofhis wrist. The crocodile followed the captain wherever he went, andwanted to have another bite. It dreamed of the happy day when itcould eat him all up. The captain always knew when this fearfulenemy was near, because on one occasion it had swallowed analarm-clock. It was so made that it would go for one centurywithout stopping. Now the ticking of this clock could plainly beheard even through its thick skin. It ticked so loudly that thecaptain could al-ways hear it coming, and it was the signal for himto run! But the captain was afraid, because he knew the clock wouldstop some day. Then the crocodile would come up behind him and eathim up. So he grew to hate Peter Pan, and wanted to kill him. Thehome of the lost boys was in the forest by the lake. They livedunder the ground for fear of the pirates and the wolves. Each boyhad a special staircase hollowed in a tree-trunk; so that theycould easily run down among the roots of the trees into their cave.Wendy, you must know, had become the mother of these boys, and theyall loved her, because it was so delightful to have a mother afterhaving lived so long without one. Wendy gave each of the boys somemedicine, taught them how to behave nicely, and put them all intheir comfortable beds at night. Though she was only nine yearsold, Wendy was quite a splendid mother. The lost boys wereprotected by some friendly Indians. On this day, up came thepirates, and suddenly there was a stamping overhead, and a sound ofpeople fighting and struggling here and there. The pirates hadattacked the red Indians by surprise. The battle was very soonover. The Indians were beaten and ran away, or crawled seriouslywounded into the forest. The pirates won a victory close above thechildren’s heads. Now, on this night, before the fight had started,Wendy had been telling the boys a story about her own father andmother-a beautiful story which showed how her father and mothermust be crying for their lost children. As she was finishing herstory, John and Michael sprang up in their beds and said, “Wendy,we must go back quickly!” “yes, answered Wendy, “we must go backquickly” You can imagine how sad all the motherless boys were whenthey heard that Wendy was going home. They cried so much that atlast she told them they might return with her and her brothers. Shesaid they could live in there house, and have Mr. And Mr. Darlingfor their father and mother. All the boys except Peter Pan werevery glad to hear that. Peter Pan said he did not want to grow up.He did not want to live in a real house and go to school. He wantedto live always in Never-Never-Land. So they all said good-by toPeter Pan, and climbed up the staircases in the tree-trunks whichled from their underground home to the forest. Wendy was the lastto go, and before she went she left some medicine for Peter and madhim promise that he would take it when he woke up in the morning.But the pirates were there on the ground waiting for them to comeout. The boys were caught as they stepped on the ground; a roughhand was held over their mouths to prevent them from crying out,and they were carried away to the pirate ship with Wendy.
(3)Wendy and all the Lost Boys were now onboard the pirate ship. Peter Pan lay asleep in his underground bed.He was alone. Captain hook was creeping down the stair-case above.Now was the chance for the captain to kill Peter Pan. He crept upto the door and peeped in. Peter Pan was fast asleep. The captaintried to open the door and failed. Again and again he tried to openthe door with his hook, but without success. Peter Pan was safe.But, no! the terrible captain found the glass of medicine left byWendy on a shelf; he reached toward it, and then, taking a bottleof poison from his pocket, poured the contents into the glass.Peter Pan woke up. He remembered his promise to Wendy, and went todrink the poison. At that moment tinker bell rushed in, crying,“don’t drink! Don’t drink!” but her warning was useless. “I havepromised Wendy,” answered Peter, and walked toward the glass,stretching out his hand. Just as Peter was about to drink, thelittle tinker bell flew into the glass and drank all its deadlycontents. Then its light flamed weakly and went pale, and it felltoward the bed dying. Peter Pan knew there was only way in which hecould possibly save tinker bell. “Do you believe in fairies? Oh,please say you believe in fairies!” cried Peter Pan to all thechildren in the world. And back from the children everywhere, whowere so sorry for poor tinker bell, came the answer, “We believe infairies. So tinker bell got well again and was saved. Then she toldPeter Pan how the pirates had carried off the Lost boys, with Wendyand her brothers, to their ship, and that they were all in verygreat danger. The poor children were all at once driven into thedark and dirty hold. Captain Hook thought that at last he had themin his power. “Are all the children chained so that they cannot flyaway?” he asked. “YES, Captain,” replied his men. “Then bring themup, ”shouted the Captain. He seated himself. On a chair on thedeck, waiting while the boys were dragged out of the hold andbrought before him. Six of them, he said, were to walk the plank atonce, but he would save any two of them who were willing to becabin boys. The children could not understand him well, but Hooksoon explained them the meaning by roaring out something like asong; ”Yo ho! Yo ho! The jolly plank, You walk along it so-----Till it goes down, and you go down To tooral looral lo.” Then hewaved his hook to show them that when the plank tipped they wouldbe shot into the water and drowned! But Peter Pan had alreadystarted out. He had an alarm-clock in his pocket. It had begunticking. “Tick! Tick! Ter-ick, tick, tick!” the captain heard, andat the dreaded sound, he shouted, “the crocodile! Hide me! Hideme!” He rushed into a corner of the ship, whilehis men crowded round him, anxious to protect their captain fromthe terrible crocodile. The boys, too, waited, breathless withhorror. At last, with sudden relief and joy, they saw, not thecrocodile, but their brave leader, peter Pan, appearing over theship’s side. In one hand he held the alarm-clock, the ticking ofwhich had made the captain believe that the crocodile was coming toeat him. Peter Pan dashed into the cabin unseen by the pirates, andclosed the door. The ticking stopped at once, and the captain’sterror disappeared. Captain Hook again began to sing his song “TheJolly Plank,” but the boys, filled with hope and delight, drownedhis voice by singing “Rule, Britannia, Britannia Rules the waves.”And just as the captain was about to force them to walk the plank,he was silenced by a terrible shriek from the cabin. The captainordered one of his men to enter the cabin and find out what was thematter. The man went, but did not return. Once more they heard thatdreadful shriek. The rest of the men were now frightened. Theyrefused to enter the cabin; one threw himself into the sea. “Drivethe boys in—let them fight the terror,” cried the captain. “if theykill him. So much the better; it he kills them, we’re none theworse.” This, of course, was just what the boys wanted, but, hidingtheir delight, they allowed themselves to be driven into the cabin.But as for the pirates, all of them were so terrified that no onesaw Peter Pan steal out, followed by the boys. No one saw Peter Pancut the ropes with which Wendy had been bound, take her the browncloak she had left, while Wendy joined the boys. "It's the girl!"cried the captain, "there's never luck on a pirate ship with a girlon board; let's throw her into the sea!" All the men knew thattheir captain was right, and one of them started up and cried tothe figure at the mast, "There's nothing can save you now!" "Thereis one," came a ringing voice, and the brown cloak was thrownaside, and there stood Peter Pan. "Down, boys, and at them," thecaptain shouted, and the boys, armed with the weapons Peter Pan hadfound and given them in the cabin, rushed down upon the lower deck.A terrible fight followed. Some of the crew jumped into the sea;others rushed at the boys with their knives, while Captain Hooktried to escape into the cabin, fighting for his life. "Put awayyour knives, boys; that man is mine!" cried Peter Pan, pointing toCaptain Hook. Hook's men jumped one by one into the sea and weredrowned. Peter Pan and Captain Hook appeared at the cabin door,fighting violently. Step by step, Hook was driven back to the sideof the ship. At last, Peter Pan pushed him into the sea, right intothe mouth of the waiting crocodile, which ate him up at last. Theboys burst into ringing cheers as they and Wendy crowded roundtheir hero, who stood like a victorious Napoleon while the pirateflag was lowered. Then Wendy and all the boys went home, and youcan imagine how glad Mr. and Mrs. Darling and Nana were to seetheir lost children again. Mrs. Darling had always kept the windowopen, and used to sing "Home, Sweet Home," hoping that the childrenmight hear her and come back. But Peter Pan, all alone inNever-Never-Land, longed for little Wendy; and Mrs. Darling allowedWendy to go every now and then to visit Peter Pan, and see that hishouse was nice and tidy. Peter Pan never wanted to grow up, andWendy never forgot the fairies.
--------by James Barrie(Easified)
29.The Dog and HisShadow（狗和他的影子）
Once there was a dog in a village. He stole a pieceof meat from a butcher's shop and ran off with it. He wanted to eatit at home. On his way home he came to a narrow bridge over astream. As he was crossing the bridge, he looked down and saw hisown shadow in the water. He thought it another dog with a largerpiece of meat than his. He tried to get that piece, too. He openedhis mouth and barked at the shadow. But the dog in the water wasnot a real dog, but his own shadow. So he dropped his own piece ofmeat into the water, and lost all.
30.The Crow and thePitcher（烏鴉和水罐）
Once there was a crow. He was very thirsty, so hewas looking for water. Then he happened to see a pitcher under atree. He flew to it and looked in. There was a little water in it,but he could not reach the water. “I want to drink that thatwater,” said he to himself. “ How can l drink it?” He lookedaround. He saw small stones. So he flew to them and took one smallstone and dropped it into the pitcher. Then he carried anothersmall stone, and dropped it into the pitcher. He went to the stonesand carried one stone every time. The water rose higher and higher.At last it came to the top of the pitcher. And now he could drinkthe water.
（转自中国英语教研网）
