The Boy Who Cried Wolf

A shepherd-boy, who watched a flock of sheep near a village, brought out the villagers three or four times by crying out, "Wolf! Wolf!" and when his neighbors came to help him, laughed at them for their pains.
The Wolf, however, did truly come at last. The Shepherd-boy, now really alarmed, shouted in an agony of terror: "Pray, do come and help me; the Wolf is killing the sheep"; but no one paid any heed to his cries, nor rendered any assistance. The Wolf, having no cause of fear, at his leisure lacerated or destroyed the whole flock.
There is no believing a liar, even when he speaks the truth.

The Ant and the Grasshopper

In a field one summer's day a Grasshopper was hopping about, chirping and singing to its heart's content. An Ant passed by, bearing along with great toil an ear of corn he was taking to the nest.
"Why not come and chat with me," said the Grasshopper, "instead of toiling and moiling in that way?"
"I am helping to lay up food for the winter," said the Ant, "and recommend you to do the same."
"Why bother about winter?" said the Grasshopper; "We have got plenty of food at present." But the Ant went on its way and continued its toil.
When the winter came the Grasshopper had no food and found itself dying of hunger - while it saw the ants distributing every day corn and grain from the stores they had collected in the summer. Then the Grasshopper knew: It is best to prepare for days of need.

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title:忘了

Once upon a time there was a king and queen who lived in a golden castle with their beautiful daughter.

One night an ugly ogre captured the beautiful princess and locked her up in his tall, dark tower .

The king and queen were very sad. They promised to give a bag of gold to knight that rescued the princess.

All the knights in the land wanted to rescued the princess. They rode to the tower as fast as they could.

The ugly ogre roared with anger when he saw the knights. His roar was so scary that they rode as fast as they could.

One day a friendly dragon was flying the ogre's tower when he heard the princess cry for help.

The dragon flew down to the tower, took a big fiery breath and blew the ogre far away over the mountain and into the ocean.

The dragon rescued the princess from the tower and gently put her on his strong back.They flew high in the sky.

They flew over the tower and the castle, over the mountain and caves, and out toward the deep blue ocean.

The dragon and the princess flew to the castle.The princess was so happy to be free she kissed the dragon. All at once he turned into a handsome prince and they lived happily ever after.

title:THE GREAT RACE

A long time ago in china lived jade emperor. it was his birthday. he wanted to measure time to know how old he was.

all animals arrived. the emperor decided to have a race to give a name to each year of the chinese zoniac.

the rat and the cat couldn't swim very well."can you take us cross the river?” “yes jump up quick!"

they swam across the river. then the rat push the cat into the water and jumped on to land.

"well done rat! the first year will be the year of the rat and the second will be the year of the ox."

"look here's the tiger. he is very tired. the third year will be the year of the tiger."

"the rabbit can't swim but he's very clever. the fourth year will be the year of the rabbit."

the fifth was the dragon.

the sixth was the snake.

THE seventh WAS THE horse.

THE eighth WAS THE goat.

THE ninth WAS THE monkey .

THE tenth WAS THE rooster.

THE eleventh WAS THE dog.

THE last WAS THE pig.

title:The Frog Prince

One fine evening a young princess put on her bonnet and clogs, and went out to take a walk by herself in a wood; and when she came to a cool spring of water with a rose in the middle of it, she sat herself down to rest a while. Now she had a golden ball in her hand, which was her favourite plaything; and she was always tossing it up into the air, and catching it again as it fell.
After a time she threw it up so high that she missed catching it as it fell; and the ball bounded away, and rolled along on the ground, until at last it fell down into the spring. The princess looked into the spring after her ball, but it was very deep, so deep that she could not see the bottom of it. She began to cry, and said, 'Alas! if I could only get my ball again, I would give all my fine clothes and jewels, and everything that I have in the world.'
Whilst she was speaking, a frog put its head out of the water, and said, 'Princess, why do you weep so bitterly?'
'Alas!' said she, 'what can you do for me, you nasty frog? My golden ball has fallen into the spring.'
The frog said, 'I do not want your pearls, and jewels, and fine clothes; but if you will love me, and let me live with you and eat from off your golden plate, and sleep on your bed, I will bring you your ball again.'
'What nonsense,' thought the princess, 'this silly frog is talking! He can never even get out of the spring to visit me, though he may be able to get my ball for me, and therefore I will tell him he shall have what he asks.'
So she said to the frog, 'Well, if you will bring me my ball, I will do all you ask.'
Then the frog put his head down, and dived deep under the water; and after a little while he came up again, with the ball in his mouth, and threw it on the edge of the spring.
As soon as the young princess saw her ball, she ran to pick it up; and she was so overjoyed to have it in her hand again, that she never thought of the frog, but ran home with it as fast as she could.

The frog called after her, 'Stay, princess, and take me with you as you said,'
But she did not stop to hear a word.
The next day, just as the princess had sat down to dinner, she heard a strange noise - tap, tap - plash, plash - as if something was coming up the marble staircase, and soon afterwards there was a gentle knock at the door, and a little voice cried out and said:

'Open the door, my princess dear,
Open the door to thy true love here!
And mind the words that thou and I said
By the fountain cool, in the greenwood shade.'

Then the princess ran to the door and opened it, and there she saw the frog, whom she had quite forgotten. At this sight she was sadly frightened, and shutting the door as fast as she could came back to her seat.
The king, her father, seeing that something had frightened her, asked her what was the matter.
'There is a nasty frog,' said she, 'at the door, that lifted my ball for me out of the spring this morning. I told him that he should live with me here, thinking that he could never get out of the spring; but there he is at the door, and he wants to come in.'
While she was speaking the frog knocked again at the door, and said:

'Open the door, my princess dear,
Open the door to thy true love here!
And mind the words that thou and I said
By the fountain cool, in the greenwood shade.'

Then the king said to the young princess, 'As you have given your word you must keep it; so go and let him in.'
She did so, and the frog hopped into the room, and then straight on - tap, tap - plash, plash - from the bottom of the room to the top, till he came up close to the table where the princess sat.
'Pray lift me upon chair,' said he to the princess, 'and let me sit next to you.'
As soon as she had done this, the frog said, 'Put your plate nearer to me, that I may eat out of it.'
This she did, and when he had eaten as much as he could, he said, 'Now I am tired; carry me upstairs, and put me into your bed.' And the princess, though very unwilling, took him up in her hand, and put him upon the pillow of her own bed, where he slept all night long.

As soon as it was light the frog jumped up, hopped downstairs, and went out of the house.
'Now, then,' thought the princess, 'at last he is gone, and I shall be troubled with him no more.'
But she was mistaken; for when night came again she heard the same tapping at the door; and the frog came once more, and said:

'Open the door, my princess dear,
Open the door to thy true love here!
And mind the words that thou and I said
By the fountain cool, in the greenwood shade.'

And when the princess opened the door the frog came in, and slept upon her pillow as before, till the morning broke. And the third night he did the same. But when the princess awoke on the following morning she was astonished to see, instead of the frog, a handsome prince, gazing on her with the most beautiful eyes she had ever seen and standing at the head of her bed.
He told her that he had been enchanted by a spiteful fairy, who had changed him into a frog; and that he had been fated so to abide till some princess should take him out of the spring, and let him eat from her plate, and sleep upon her bed for three nights.
'You,' said the prince, 'have broken his cruel charm, and now I have nothing to wish for but that you should go with me into my father's kingdom, where I will marry you, and love you as long as you live.'
The young princess, you may be sure, was not long in saying 'Yes' to all this; and as they spoke a brightly coloured coach drove up, with eight beautiful horses, decked with plumes of feathers and a golden harness; and behind the coach rode the prince's servant, faithful Heinrich, who had bewailed the misfortunes of his dear master during his enchantment so long and so bitterly, that his heart had well-nigh burst.
They then took leave of the king, and got into the coach with eight horses, and all set out, full of joy and merriment, for the prince's kingdom, which they reached safely; and there they lived happily a great many years.

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title:High and Lifted Up

It was a windy day.
The mailman barely made it to the front door. When the door opened, Mrs. Pennington said, "hello", but, before she had a real chance to say "thank you", the mail blew out of the mailman's hands, into the house and the front door slammed in his face. Mrs. Pennington ran to pick up the mail.
"Oh my," she said.
Tommy was watching the shutters open and then shut, open and then shut.
"Mom," he said, "may I go outside?"
"Be careful," she said. "It's so windy today."
Tommy crawled down from the window-seat and ran to the door. He opened it with a bang. The wind blew fiercely and snatched the newly recovered mail from Mrs. Pennington's hands and blew it even further into the house.
"Oh my," she said again. Tommy ran outside and the door slammed shut.
Outside, yellow, gold, and red leaves were leaping from swaying trees, landing on the roof, jumping off the roof, and then chasing one another down the street in tiny whirlwinds of merriment.
Tommy watched in fascination.
"If I was a leaf, I would fly clear across the world," Tommy thought and then ran out into the yard among the swirl of colors.
Mrs. Pennington came to the front porch.
"Tommy, I have your jacket. Please put it on."
However, there was no Tommy in the front yard.
"Tommy?"
Tommy was a leaf. He was blowing down the street with the rest of his play-mates.
A maple leaf came close-by, touched him and moved ahead. Tommy met him shortly, brushed against him, and moved further ahead. They swirled around and around, hit cars and poles, flew up into the air and then down again.
"This is fun," Tommy thought.
The maple leaf blew in front of him. It was bright red with well-defined veins. The sun-light shone through it giving it a brilliance never before seen by a little boy's eyes.
"Where do you think we are going?" Tommy asked the leaf.
"Does it matter?" the leaf replied. "Have fun. Life is short."
"I beg to differ," an older leaf said suddenly coming beside them. "The journey may be short, but the end is the beginning."
Tommy pondered this the best a leaf could ponder.
"Where do we end up?"
"If the wind blows you in that direction," the old leaf said, "you will end up in the city dump."

"I don't want that," Tommy said.
"If you are blown in that direction, you will fly high into the air and see things that no leaf has seen before."
"Follow me to the city dump," the maple leaf said. "Most of my friends are there."
The wind blew Tommy and the maple leaf along. Tommy thought of his choices. He wanted to continue to play.
"Okay," Tommy said, "I will go with you to the dump."
The winds shifted and Tommy and the leaf were blown in the direction of the city dump.
The old leaf didn't follow. He was blown further down the block and suddenly lifted up high into the air.
"Hey," he called out, "the sights up here. They are spectacular. Come and see."
Tommy and the maple leaf ignored him.
"I see something. I see the dump." The old leaf cried out. "I see smoke. Come up here. I see fire."
"I see nothing," the maple leaf said.
Tommy saw the fence that surrounded the city dump. He was happy to be with his friend. They would have fun in the dump.
Suddenly, a car pulled up. It was Tommy's mom. Mrs. Pennington wasn't about to let her little boy run into the city dump.
"Not so fast," she said getting out of the car. "You are not allowed to play in there. Don't you see the smoke?"
Tommy watched the maple leaf blow against the wall and struggle to get over. He ran over to get it but was unable to reach it.
Mrs. Pennington walked over and took the leaf. She put it in her pocket.
"There," she said, "it will be safe until we get home."
Tommy smiled, ran to the car and got in. He rolled down the back window and looked up into the sky. He wondered where the old leaf had gone. Perhaps one day he would see what the old leaf had seen - perhaps.

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Imagine a small red brick house. Imagine a small bedroom with a red blanket. Imagine a small head with a round face and freckles, red hair sticking up. Steve was asleep in his bed. The alarm clock rang and he woke up. He got out of bed like a sleepwalker, got washed, dressed very slowly in his designer jeans and then went downstairs to have his breakfast. He sat at the table eating coco-pops. His sister Katie came in. She was bright and pretty and wore her blonde hair in a pony tail.
'Hurry up!' she said to Steve. 'We'll be late for school!'

Ten minutes later they left the house and went to the corner of the street to meet their friends as usual. Katie's friend Lauren was already waiting. She had short brown hair and glasses. Steve didn't like her much as she was very bossy. Just then Boff arrived. He was a strange sight. He was very tall and thin like a stick insect. His face was quite spotty and his hair wasn't combed. His clothes were really uncool but he didn't seem to notice.

They set off walking along the road to school – past the shops, past the enormous grey factory building and down towards the river. Then suddenly they heard a noise behind them.
'Woof, Woof!'
'Oh, no,' said Steve. 'It's Benjie.'
Benjie was Steve's dog and he was very very disobedient. He often escaped and Steve had to take him home again. Benjie ran off in front of them into a field.
'Oh, no,' said Steve, 'he's seen a rabbit! He's gone into the field. We'll have to catch him.'

The four children groaned and then climbed over the fence into the field to look for Benjie.
'Here, Benjie!' they shouted.
But the dog ran off into the distance, chasing a rabbit.

At the back of the field was a wall. The rabbit and the dog ran towards it – and then disappeared!
'Where are they?' cried Katie. 'They've just gone!'
They went closer to the wall and looked. There was a hole at the bottom of the wall.
'Maybe they went down there,' said Lauren.
Steve went down to look and then fell over.
'Ow!' he cried, and then disappeared!
'Where is he?' said Katie.

The three children went down the slope towards the hole. Suddenly they felt their heads spinning and turning, and the world went black. They felt as if they were flying, and indeed they were – back into the mysteries of time itself.

They landed with a thump and a bang.
'Ouch!' cried Katie, as she banged her head.
'Where are we?' asked Lauren.
'Look over there. What's that?' asked Steve.
'It's a Pyramid!' said Boff. 'We studied them at school in history.'
'Then we must be in Egypt!' said Steve.
'Yes, look ... there are five of them … and they are building another one over there!'
'But they built the Pyramids more than 2000 years ago!' said Lauren.
'Wow! Let's go and look at that one! There's a door to the inside. Come on!' said Steve.

They walked across a sandy desert area and stood in front of an enormous Pyramid. They went in and saw amazing coloured paintings on the walls. There were pictures of people hunting animals, pictures of food and pictures of rich people wearing fantastic gold jewellery. There was also strange writing on the walls.
'This must be a tomb,' said Steve.

Suddenly they heard a voice.
'Who are you?' it boomed.
They froze with fear and turned around. They saw a tall, thin boy with long black hair. He was wearing a white cloth like a skirt, leather sandals and an amazing bead necklace.
'We are travellers,' said Boff, 'but I think we are lost. Who are you?'
'My name is Ramses,' the boy replied. 'Come. I will show you my house.'

They followed the boy towards the river. There was a small village settlement with square white houses. They went into a low white house. Inside it was dark and cool. They sat on mats on the floor.
'Are you hungry?' asked Ramses.
'Yes, a bit,' replied Steve. Steve was always hungry.

Ramses clapped his hands and a girl entered the room. She had dark eyes and a gentle smile.
'This is my sister Osi,' said Ramses. 'Please bring us some food.'

After a few minutes Osi returned with a plate of fruit, some bread and some cool water to drink.
'You are welcome,' said Ramses, looking at their strange clothes. He thought trousers were very strange.

After their meal Ramses wanted to show them his village. They left the house and walked around. The village was next to a huge river. Along the river it was green and there were trees and crops growing. Ramses explained that this was the black land, but further away in the desert was the red land.

My father is a farmer,' said Ramses, 'but now the water is rising and the flood is coming so he is helping to carry stones for the Pyramid.'

Near the river there were lots of ducks making a noise. The children laughed and went closer to the river. It was hot and the sun was high in the sky.
'Let's swim!' said Ramses.
They all splashed around in the river having fun. The water was cooling and they jumped off the river bank just to make a splash. Ramses was a good swimmer and swam out into the middle of the river.

While they were watching him, they suddenly heard him yell 'Aaagh!' and then he disappeared under the water. Steve was standing on the bank of the river. He looked at the water and saw the dark shape of a fish. It was huge and seemed to be getting bigger and bigger. Then they saw Ramses' head above the water and the mouth of a huge fish with sharp teeth.
'Help!' shouted Ramses. 'A puffer fish!'

Steve picked up a sharp stick and threw it at the water. It speared the fish, which then sank in the water. Ramses climbed back to the river bank.
'You saved my life!' he said. Puffer fish are very dangerous – they are poisonous and kill you if they bite.

They returned to the house and Ramses told his mother and father what had happened. They kissed Steve and thanked him again and again for saving their son.

That evening they invited all their family and friends to a huge feast. They sat in the garden behind the house and ate all kinds of meat and incredible fruit. They presented the children with beautiful lotus flowers.

At the end of the feast they were tired.
'We must try to get back home,' said Lauren.
When everyone in the house was asleep, they left the house quietly and walked through the village to the place near the Pyramid where they had arrived.
'I think it was near here,' said Katie.

They found a hole in the pile of rocks near the entrance to the Pyramid. Steve and Boff went first. They looked into the hole – and disappeared! Then Katie and Lauren followed. They felt dizzy and everything swirled around in the air. They were flying again ... though time and space ... through the timewarp.

They landed with another bump and found themselves on the ground in the field. Steve fell flat on his face. When he looked up he saw Benjie sitting there waiting and wagging his tail.

'We're back!' cried Lauren. 'Did we really go back in time and space or was it all a dream?'
Katie looked down at the beautiful lotus flower she was holding.
'No,' she said, 'we definitely are time travellers!'

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