qq飞车会变色的车:英文故事

Piccola

Once there lived in France a little girl named Piccola. When she was very young, her father died, and her mother was very, very poor.
One Christmas Eve Piccola said to her mother, "Mamma, will Uncle Santa come to our house tonight?" Her mother felt very sad and shook her head.
Before she went to bed, Piccola took off her little wooden shoes and put them on the floor near the chimney. She said to her mother, “Perhaps Uncle Santa will come.”
All was white with snow outside, and itwas very cold.
In the night a little bird with a broken wing fell down the chimney and hopped into one of the shoes. Very early in the morning Piccola woke up. She jumped out of bed and ran to look into her shoes.
There she saw the little bird in one of the shoes. She picked up the shoe and ran to show her Christmas present to her mother. She said, "Santa Claus did not forget me, Mamma."

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The Wolf and The Crane

One day a Wolf, who was eating his dinner much too fast, swallowed a bone, which stuck in his throat and pained him very much. He tried to get it out, but could not.
Just then he saw a Crane passing by. “Dear fiend,” said he to the Crane, “ there is a bone sticking in my throat. You have a good long neck; can\'t you reach down and pull it out? I will pay you well for it.”“I\'ll try,” said the Crane. Then he put his head into the Wolf’s mouth, between his sharp teeth, and reaching down, pulled out bone. “There!” said the Wolf, “I am glad it is out; I must be more careful another time.” “I will go now, if you will pay me,” said the Crane.
“Pay you, indeed!” cried the Wolf. “Be thankful that I did not bite your head off when it was in my mouth. You ought to be content with that.”

One day a rich woman lost her handbag．There was a lot of money in it．So she made a promise（许下诺言），“If anybody finds my handbag and returns it to me，I'll give half the money to him．”
A poor farmer found the handbag at a street corner．He sent it back to the owner．But the rich woman changed her mind．
“There was an expensive watch in my handbag，”said the owner．“I won't give half the money in my handbag to you until you return it to me．”
“I've never seen an expensive watch in the handbag，”said the farmer．
They began to quarrel．The rich woman wouldn't do what she had said．The farmer became angry and took her to a judge（法官）．
After the judge heard what had happened to them，he said to the woman，“I'm sure that you have lost a handbag，and that there was an expensive watch in it．But there is only a lot of money in this handbag．I don't think it's yours． Wait for some time．Maybe somebody will return your handbag to you．”Then the judge turned to the farmer and said，“Take the handbag home．If the owner doesn't come to get it back in three days，it will be yours．”

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