It is no wonder John almost lost his senses clinging there, for the sled shot down through the icy air with the rapidity of a railway train. In what seemed to John ages, though it was only a few minutes, the speed slackened; finally the sled stopped,...
John was eleven now and very proud to be allowed to go down into the Toy Valley in the winter time. Are you quite ready, my son? his father asked in a serious voice, and John knew the great moment had come. He gripped his father very tight, shut his...
Father Hofer placed the sled carefully and firmly on the platform of snow at the top. Then he seated himself and John got on behind, his arms around his fathers waist and his legs drawn well up out of the way. He had often taken short sled trips with...
JOHN GOES DOWN TO TOY VALLEY 约翰去了玩具谷 Margaret Warner Morley 作者:玛格丽特华纳莫利 High up among the Alps Mountains in Austria lies Toy Valley. Here for many years men, women, and children have been carving wooden blocks into...
Sure now that something was wrong, the boy sprang to his fathers bed, for Sadoc was still sleeping soundly, and called him. 现在肯定是出了什么事,孩子跳上父亲的床,叫他过来,因为撒多克还在熟睡。 Father, father, wake...
This storehouse was not connected with the house itself, but was a separate building, with a door of its own which opened on to the street. This door was always kept locked with a strong padlock, for fear of thieves. And, lest someone might break in,...
ABDUL AZIZ PLEASES HIS FATHER 阿卜杜勒阿齐兹取悦他的父亲 When the olives had all been gathered, Sadoc came with his brother, bringing more donkeys, each with two baskets hanging on its flanks. In these baskets the olives were loaded and...
Then came a great drought in the South. For three years not a drop of rain fell, and everything dried up. The desert wells were dry. There was no pasture for our animals. So we came north, searching for food. One day we camped in the fields outside H...
His mother, Kadijah, was like another person out here under the sky, in the freedom of the orchard. She laughed and sang, and she was in a good humor from morning till night. This year Abdul Aziz noticed it, and one afternoon when they were resting a...
After the brown bundles had unwrapped themselves and become women, they unloaded the donkeys and hobbled them. Then they brought out from the little house a ladder and some large squares of old canvas. The ladders were for the women. Abdul Aziz and h...