Aesop BBC的伊索寓言40故事08 the_fox_and_the_grapes.pdf简介：
8. THE FOX AND THE GRAPESBy Tony PayneOne hot day at the end of summer a fox trotted along the dusty path to a farm, listening out for other �creatures and sniffing the air, as foxes do. It was getting late, and after a long day the sun looked a little red in the face and had dropped out of sight behind a bush. It was the time of day that the fox liked best. The farmers work �was finished. He had taken off his muddy boots and gone inside for tea. The fox only showed himself when the farmer had left his boots outside. Then, if he came running after the fox with his gun - as �farmers do - he would first have to sit on the step, put his boots back �on again, and the fox would have plenty of time to run away. �The fox is certainly very clever, and handsome too, but no one knows this better than the fox himself.He would look at his reflection forhours admiring his beautiful red �coat with its snow white bib. He would look at his smart black legs, which matched his sleek black ears. And his sleek black ears matched his shiny black nose, which looked exactly like a small polished pebble. But best of all, he thought, was his glorious bushy tail, like a big, soft paintbrush dipped in whitewash.The farmer locked in the hens at night, and the rabbits and geese, and he shooed the ducks onto their little island in the middle of the �duck pond so that the clever fox �could not get them. He knew the fox hated swimming. But the fox did not only eat chick-ens and rabbits and ducks and geese, though he would put them �all on the menu given half a chance. If he couldnt get into the hen house, and he couldnt swim to the duck island, and if the geese made a fuss and rattled their beaks at him - as geese do - then there was always something else to eat. 1There were slugs and grasshop-pers and mice and worms and frogs and eggs and big meaty bones the farmer put out with the rubbish. And tonight there was fruit!The fox looked up at a huge bunch of juic 展开>>

下载声明:
1、本文档共2页，其中可免费阅读2页，下载后可查看全部内容。 2、本文档内容版权归属内容提供方，所产生的收益全部归内容提供方所有。如果您对本文有版权争议，可选择认领，认领后既往收益都归您。 3、本文档由用户上传，本站不保证内容质量和数量令您满意，可能有诸多瑕疵，付费之前，请先通过免费阅读内容等途径仔细辨别内容交易风险。 如存在严重文不对题之情形，可联系本站下载客服投诉处理。 文档侵权举报电话：18182295159（无值守，支持微信） (电话支持时间：10:00-19:00)。 展开>>