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1、Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more.-author-dateThe-Story-of-the-Bad-Little-BoyThe Story of the Bad Little BoyThe Story of the Bad Little Boy By Mark Twain, 1875 Once there was a bad little boy whose name was Jim - though, if you wil
2、l notice, you will find that bad little boys are nearly always called James in your Sunday-school books. It was strange, but still it was true that this one was called Jim. He didnt have any sick mother either - a sick mother who was pious and had the consumption, and would be glad to lie down in th
3、e grave and be at rest but for the strong love she bore her boy, and the anxiety she felt that the world might be harsh and cold towards him when she was gone. Most bad boys in the Sunday-books are named James, and have sick mothers, who teach them to say, Now, I lay me down, etc. and sing them to s
4、leep with sweet, plaintive voices, and then kiss them good-night, and kneel down by the bedside and weep. But it was different with this fellow. He was named Jim, and there wasnt anything the matter with his mother - no consumption, nor anything of that kind. She was rather stout than otherwise, and
5、 she was not pious; moreover, she was not anxious on Jims account. She said if he were to break his neck it wouldnt be much loss. She always spanked Jim to sleep, and she never kissed him good-night; on the contrary, she boxed his ears when she was ready to leave him. Once this little bad boy stole
6、the key of the pantry, and slipped in there and helped himself to some jam, and filled up the vessel with tar, so that his mother would never know the difference; but all at once a terrible feeling didnt come over him, and something didnt seem to whisper to him, Is it right to disobey my mother? Isn
7、t it sinful to do this? Where do bad little boys go who gobble up their good kind mothers jam? and then he didnt kneel down all alone and promise never to be wicked any more, and rise up with a light, happy heart, and go and tell his mother all about it, and beg her forgiveness, and be blessed by he
8、r with tears of pride and thankfulness in her eyes. No; that is the way with all other bad boys in the books; but it happened otherwise with this Jim, strangely enough. He ate that jam, and said it was bully, in his sinful, vulgar way; and he put in the tar, and said that was bully also, and laughed
9、, and observed that the old woman would get up and snort when she found it out; and when she did find it out, he denied knowing anything about it, and she whipped him severely, and he did the crying himself. Everything about this boy was curious - everything turned out differently with him from the
10、way it does to the bad James in the books. Once he climbed up in Farmer Acorns apple-tree to steal apples, and the limb didnt break, and he didnt fall and break his arm, and get torn by the farmers great dog, and then languish on a sick bed for weeks, and repent and become good. Oh! no; he stole as
11、many apples as he wanted and came down all right; and he was all ready for the dog too, and knocked him endways with a brick when he came to tear him. It was very strange - nothing like it ever happened in those mild little books with marbled backs, and with pictures in them of men with swallow-tail
12、ed coats and bell-crowned hats, and pantaloons that are short in the legs, and women with the waists of their dresses under their arms, and no hoops on. Nothing like it in any of the Sunday-school books. Once he stole the teachers pen-knife, and, when he was afraid it would be found out and he would
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