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A shilling
2023-12-05Three old men were sitting on the wall of Kilmilik Pier码头,桥墩 with their backs to the sea and their faces to the village and the sun. Suddenly there wa...
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Pals for Life
2023-12-05In 1999, Ryan Hreljac (hurl-jack) and Jimmy Akana became pen pals(笔友). They lived on two continents, thousands of miles apart. Their lives could not h...
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The Magic Pitcher
2023-12-05Long, long ago there lived far away in India a woodcutter(伐木工,樵夫) called Subha Datta and his family, who were all very happy together. The father went...
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How did the teddy bear got its name?
2023-12-05Can you bear it? The famous teddy bear is more than 100 years old, and got its name from a United States president. In 1902, President Theodore Teddy&...
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Chinese Cucumbers
2023-12-05I curiously watched my grandmother open the yellowing paper packet with painstaking care. When she untied the knots, a cluster of strange, shriveled o...
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Some arguments are not easy to settle. For example, many people say Rebecca and Abigail Bates were real heroes of the War of 1812. Others think that&r...
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Prometheus and Man
2023-12-05In the conflict between Cronus and Jupiter, Prometheus had adopted the cause of the Olympian deities. To him and his brother Epimetheus was now commit...
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The First Woman
2023-12-05The story (absurd enough!) is that Jupiter made the first woman and sent her to Prometheus and his brother, to punish them for their presumption in st...
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The Girl who Taught the World to Weave
2023-12-05This is a story of the time when humans first walked the earth. And in those days they did not wear clothes, for they did not know how to weave cloth....
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Maori legend of how the kiwi lost its wings
2023-12-05One day, Tanemahuta, guardian of the forest noticed that his children the trees were starting to sicken, because they were being eaten by insects. He ...