"What d'you think?" Ross asked eventually."It's obvious," I replied, "There must have been a hole in the rain clouds - probably one, oh - a foot by a foot and a half, what you saw ..."But I didn't get...
aThere was an ironic fragment of truth in what the lady said.The thing was, the dog only accepted Bill as a temporary companion - of course it did not understand the fact that Bill's brother was never...
I handed Bill his specs（眼镜，规格） , and he peered at the dog, tutting to himself as he did so."Aye, Old Bram, lying out in the yard. Waiting for his life to start up again." He shook his head, wistfully...
He even began to tremble a little in his hind legs.Within an instant, Bingo had gone from driven and manic（狂躁的） to unsure, and needing comfort. Bill ended up stroking Bingo, who nuzzled against his l...
"I think I know why the cats don't go in his yard. I might even know what happened when Bingo went to bite Bill."I propped myself up on my elbow（肘部） , and cast a sceptical gaze through the darkness at...
I subconsciously（潜意识地） thought it odd to see Bill any where outside his home - I had actually never seen him anywhere but within about 10 yards of his house. He rarely ventured even outside of his b...
I only had Dad's account of what happened next, as it was out of sight of the window on to our yard. He was firmly of the opinion that Bill had bitten off more than he could chew, and that Bingo was a...
Bill was in actual fact, not so much a man of the world, as a man of Basford and Hartshill, but here was a life lived in an extraordinary richness of simplicity, a wealth of minute experience and also...
His other characteristic, we soon learned, was tenacity（韧性，固执） . Bingo was not going to be put off by the mere fact of his home now being taken over by strangers - he would not leave. Though he never...
Once upon a time, there was a little boy. His name was Ben. On his first birthday, his parents got him a soft brown teddy bear. The little baby boy carried his teddy bear with him everywhere he went....
Bill was a retired, life long bachelor. He lived alone in the small terraced house（连栋房屋） next door but two from us. On a number of occasions, I visited Bill's house, and it seemed that it hadn't rea...
Dogs had only played walk on parts in my family. As far as I was concerned the all defining object in a house was a television. There was one in Bill's house. It stood like a lonely, redundant sentine...
Bill would tell us stories of his work, of holidays, of his biggest adventure, which involved travelling across the Irish Sea to the Isle of Man in stormy seas. He had been young with men who still li...
A king had three sons whom he loved equally well, and he did not know which of them to appoint as king following his own death.When the time came for him to die he called them to his bed and said, &ld...
One day the Mountain man said to the Sea man, "I have never tried fishing in my life. I'd like to go fishing in the sea at a time. So why don't you exchange your fishing rod（钓杆） for my bow and arrows...
Once upon a time there was a miller who was poor, but who had a beautiful daughter. Now it happened that he got into a conversation with the king, and to make an impression on him he said, "I have a d...
There was a village where all the peasants were rich except for just one poor one, whom they called the little peasant. He did not own a single cow, and had even less money to buy one with, but he and...
Once upon a time there was a forester（林务官，护林员） . He went into the woods to hunt, and after entering the woods he heard a sound of crying, as though it were a little child. Following the sound, he f...
A king had a daughter who was beautiful beyond all measure, but at the same time so proud and arrogant that no suitor was good enough for her. She rejected one after the other, ridiculing them as well...
Wanda, the neighborhood witch, was a good witch and had been one for about 221 years. Her fondest dream was to become a fairy godmother. She had been going to the Fairy Godmother Academy for 103 years...
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.Then it happened one day while the queen was sitting in her bath, that a fro...
The cats from the cat village went to the river for a picnic.
A cat found a corn stalk（玉米杆） .
What can the cats do with the corn stalk?
He must be hungry.He is eating the kernels of corn.
Oh,look!He...
McDull is a male pig who can be distinguished by a birthmark（胎痣） on his right eye. He has a heart of gold, but he isn't very smart and ordinary in every way; nevertheless, he has many dreams. However,...
Once upon a time the fox was talking to the wolf about the strength of man, how no animal could withstand him, and how all were obliged to employ cunning（狡猾的） in order to protect themselves from him....
Before the dawn of time, all the animals looked the same.Normally this was fine, but some of the cheekier animals likes to play tricks on Mother Earth and pretend to be other animals.Since they looked...
A long time ago and far away there lived a King and a Queen. They were very happy, for their first child, a girl, had been born."We must have a grand christening（洗礼） for her," said the King , who was...
Once upon a time, there was a little girl who lived with her parents in a cottage on the edge of the forest. Her father was a woodcutter. He worked all day long in the forest, chopping down（砍下） trees...
