日期:2013-12-18 Once on a time a mouse, a bird, and a sausage became companions, kept house together, lived well and happily with each other, and wonderfully increased their possessions. The bird's work was to fly every day into the forest and bring back wood. The... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-12-18 There were once a cock and a hen who wanted to take a journey together. So the cock built a beautiful carriage, which had four red wheels, and harnessed four mice to it. The hen seated herself in it with the cock, and they drove away together. Not l... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-12-05 Long, long ago, there lived upon a little island a Greek king named Ulysses. One time Ulysses sailed far away across the sea to fight for his country, and for ten long years he was away from his beautiful wife and his little son. At last the Greeks... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-12-05 The Bible story tells that men and women became so wicked that God was sorry he had made the Earth. He looked at the way men and women were living, and determined to punish them by sending a great flood; but there was one good man, and for his sake... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-12-05 Arachne lived in a small village on the shores of the Mediterranean. Her parents were very poor. While her mother was busy cooking the simple meals for the family, or working in the fields, Arachne used to spin all day long Her wheel made a steady w... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-12-05 Once upon a time, a woodman was cutting down a tree by the side of a lake. By accident he let his ax fall into the water. As he lost the tool with which he had gained his livelihood, he sat down upon the bank and felt very sad about his hard fate. T... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-12-05 Long, long ago the people lied very happily in the beautiful world, and nobody was ever sick. At that time there was a beautiful little girl named Pandora. One day a fairy gave her a wonderful box. It was tied with a golden cord and the fairy made h... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-12-05 Thousands of years ago the people told strange stories to one another, and believed many strange things. The believed that in all the woods and streams and hills and hollows(中空,凹陷处) lived fair creatures, and they called these creatures nymph... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-12-05 Long, long ago there lived in Greece a young boy named Narcissus. All day long he tended his sheep on the hills, and drove them from place to place to find the very best pasture. One day he came to a little stream and wanted to drink from it. The wa... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-11-29 An ass once found a lion's skin. He put it on, and walked towards the village. All fled when he came near, both men and animals. The ass felt quite proud. He lifted his voice and brayed, but then everyone knew him. His owner came up and gave him a s... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-11-25 There was once a forester(护林人) who went into the forest to hunt, and as he entered it he heard a sound of screaming as if a little child were there. He followed the sound, and at last came to a high tree, and at the top of this a little child w... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-11-25 Once upon a time in the middle of winter, when the flakes(鳞片,白点) of snow were falling like feathers from the sky, a queen sat at a window sewing, and the frame of the window was made of black ebony(乌木,黑檀) . And whilst she was sewing an... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-11-21 A sheep-dog had not a good master, but, on the contrary, one who let him suffer hunger. As he could stay no longer with him, he went quite sadly away. On the road he met a sparrow who said, Brother dog, why art thou so sad? The dog replied, I am hun... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-11-21 But Tembo wouldn't listen. He was thinking of his own children. They would be safe, but only if he could find other animals for Kali to gobble up. Outside Kali's palace Hare stood shaking and cringing. He had to think of something fast. Maybe I can... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-11-21 My second decree is that every day you must bring me an animal for my supper. A king can't do his own hunting. The animals nodded gloomily. And my third decree is, if you don't do as I say, I'll eat the lot of you! The animals now turned to one anot... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-11-21 Nothing stirred on the African plains. The sun glared down and Hare crept inside the cool hollow of a baobab tree for his afternoon nap. Suddenly he was wide awake. There was a boom, boom, booming in his ears. And it was getting closer. Hare peeped... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-11-21 Two kings' sons once went out in search of adventures, and fell into a wild, disorderly way of living, so that they never came home again. The youngest, who was called Simpleton, set out to seek his brothers, but when at length he found them they mo... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-11-21 There was once on a time a King who had a wife with golden hair, and she was so beautiful that her equal was not to be found on earth. It came to pass that she lay ill, and as she felt that she must soon die, she called the King and said, If thou wi... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-11-21 There was once a woman and her daughter who lived in a pretty garden with cabbages; and a little hare came into it, and during the winter time ate all the cabbages. Then says the mother to the daughter, Go into the garden, and chase the hare away. T... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-11-21 Hans wished to put his son to learn a trade, so he went into the church and prayed to our Lord God to know which would be most advantageous for him. Then the clerk got behind the altar(圣坛) , and said, Thieving, thieving. On this Hans goes back t... 阅读全文>> |
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