Aesop BBC的伊索寓言40故事18 the_caged_bird_and_the_bat.pdf简介：
18. THE CAGED BIRD AND THE BATBy Nicky GrischottiIn a village far, far away there once lived a pretty little songbird.She was in fact a very grumpy, bad-tempered little songbird. You see, shed been caught and trapped by a young woodsman named Fergus Fowler and he had locked her in a cage outside his cottage window.So there she sat looking out through the bars, longing to be free, mumbling and grumbling all through the day.'That nasty, horrible, grubby little good for nothing…with his muddy knees and dirty feet and his hooks and his nets and his traps…going about catching us happy folk…'But oh when she sang!Youve never heard such a beautiful sound. She would sing of the fields and the flowers, of the wind ruffling her feathers and the sun warming her wings. She would sing of the sound of waterfalls and cool mountain streams tinkling and splashing over pebbles. It was a magical song that you wished to hear from the first light of dawn till last thing at night…But that is something our little songbird…never…ever…did. Not a peep, not a whistle, not a single twitter tweet would she utter during daytime hours.'I have my reasons,' said the song-bird smugly to herself. 'Oh no…no Ill not do that again…Ive learned that sure enough.' Now Fergus Fowler wasnt such a bad young lad. He was a kind, sensitive boy and he was a really terrible hunter and if he did by some extraordinary good luck actually catch a guinea-fowl or �field mouse he always set it free. He couldnt bear to see it suffer. The only creature that Fergus Fowler had ever actually trapped and kept and loved very much was the songbird. 1'What a wonderful song,' he said… 'Now you can sing for me every day!' But the little songbird hadnt sung from that day to this.'I might be a useless hunter,'Fergus mumbled to the little bird, feeding her some of his bread, 'but youre a bit of a useless songbird too. Youre very sweet and pretty, but you never, EVER sing!' Which was true as 展开>>

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