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• 1.A shilling
• Three 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 the...
• 2.Pals for Life
• In 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 n...
• 3.The Magic Pitcher
• Long, 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 fat...
• 4.How did the teddy bear got its name?
• Can 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 ...
• 5.Chinese Cucumbers
• I curiously watched my grandmother open the yellowing paper packet with painstaking care. When she untied the knots, a cluster of strange, shriveled o...
• 6.An American Army of Two-The Tale of Rebecca and Ab
• 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 thats ...
• 7.Prometheus and Man
• In the conflict between Cronus and Jupiter, Prometheus had adopted the cause of the Olympian deities. To him and his brother Epimetheus was now commit...
• 8.The First Woman
• The 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...
• 9.The Girl who Taught the World to Weave
• This 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....
• 10.Maori legend of how the kiwi lost its wings
• One day, Tanemahuta, guardian of the forest noticed that his children the trees were starting to sicken, because they were being eaten by insects. He ...