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1、【英文读物】Red, White, Blue Socks, Part FirstDEDICATION.My Dear Little Cooley and Georgie:When you see that this book is dedicated to you, I hope your bright eyes will sparkle with pleasure; but I am afraid your pretty curly heads will hardly retain a recollection of a little personage who once lived clo
2、se to your beautiful home on Staten Island. She remembers you, however, and sends you this soldier story with her very best lovethe love she bears in her inmost heart for God and little children. And now she asks you to hunt in every corner of those same precious little heads for a kindly remembranc
3、e of your affectionate friend,AUNT FANNYS DAUGHTER.THE STORY OF THE SOCKS. BY AUNT FANNY.Oh dear! what shall I do? cried George, fretfully, one rainy afternoon. Mamma, do tell me what to do.And Im so tired! echoed Helen, who was lazily playing with a kitten in her lap. I dont see why it should rain
4、on a Friday afternoon, when we have no lessons to learn. We cant go out, and no one can come to see us. Its too bad, there!Helen, do you know better than God? asked her mother, speaking8 very gravely. You forget that He sends the rain.I suppose I was thoughtless, mamma, answered the child; I did not
5、 mean to be wicked, but, dear me, the time passes so slowly, with nothing to do.Have you and George read all your books?Oh yes! two or three times over, they both answered; and oh, mamma, continued Helen, if the one who wrote Two Little Heaps, or the Rollo book writer, or the author of The Little Wh
6、ite Angel, would only write some more books, I, for one, would not care how hard it rained. If I was grown up and rich, I wouldnt mind giving a dollar a letter for those stories.9Nor I, shouted George in an animated tone, quite different from the discontented whine he had favored his mother with a f
7、ew moments before; the best thing is to have them read aloud to you; that makes you understand all about it so much better. I say, mamma, couldnt you write a letter to one of those delightful people and beg them to hurry up with more stories, especially some about bad children;not exactly wicked, yo
8、u know, but full of mischief. Then I am sure that they are all true. Only wait till Im a man! Ill just write the history of some jolly fellows I know who are always getting into scrapes, but havent a scrap of meanness about them. Thats the kind of10 book I like! Ill write dozens of them, and give th
9、em to all the Sunday school libraries.His mother smiled at this speech, and then said quietly, I know a gentleman who likes the story of The Little White Angel, as much as you do, and he has written a letter to request the author to write six books for him.Six! hurrah! shouted George, how glad I am!
10、 and he skipped up to Helen, caught her by the hands, and the two danced round the room, upsetting a chair, till Helen, catching her foot in the skirt of her mothers dress, they both tumbled down on the carpet together.If you cut up such violent capers,11 said the kind mother, laughing, at the first
11、 part of my information, it may be dangerous to tell you what the author replied.Oh no, do tell us! cried the children. Well be as still as our shadows; and while they made violent efforts to look grave and stand quiet, their mother told them that the author had consented, the six books were to be w
12、ritten, and she would buy them the very first day they were published. Perhaps, she continued, mind, only perhaps, I may get them for you before they are ever printed.Why, how, mamma? they both asked.Well, suppose you make some very good resolutionslet me see,12 and she took a pencil out of her pock
13、et, and drawing a sheet of paper toward her, began to write:1st. To endeavor to say your prayers morning and evening without a wandering thought.2d. To try to keep faithfully the Golden Rule.3d. To obey your parents immediately, without asking why?4th. (A little rule, but very important.) To keep yo
14、ur teeth, nails, and hair scrupulously clean and neat.5th. To bear disappointments cheerfully.There, I think that will do. They are all hard rules except the fourth. I do not keep them well myself, my dear children. No one can,13 without constant watchfulness and prayer for help from above; but you
15、can try, will you?I will, mamma, said Helen, in a low, earnest tone, her blue eyes filling with tears.And you, George, will you?Yes, mamma, I will try. I cant be a very good boy, as you know. I get so tired of being good sometimes, that I feel like jumping over the house to get the badness out of me
16、, instead of sitting down quietly and thinking about my duty, as papa says I must. When papa locked me up in his dressing room last summer, and I kicked the door as hard as ever I could, which made him call out that I should stay there two hours longer, I was14 mad enough, I tell you! but I did not
17、cut my name with a knife on his rosewood bureau because I was angry. It was because I was almost crazy with doing nothing but think what a bad boy I was. That made me worse, you see. The best way to punish me is to see you crying about my conduct. I cant stand that, and the boy put his arms round hi
18、s mothers neck, and kissed her fondly.My dear boy, said his mother, returning the caress, there is One whom you grieve more than me. I wish you would think oftener of that. I know that different children require different sorts of punishment, and as neither your father nor I approve of beating you l
19、ike a dog, and you say15 that shutting you up with nothing to do only makes you worse, I shall advise him the next time you are naughty, to send immediately for a load of wood, and make you saw it all up into small pieces, or take you where some house is building and order you to run up and down a l
20、ong ladder all day with a hod of bricks on your shoulder, or hire you out to blow the big bellows for a blacksmith. How do you think you would like that?I had a great deal rather run after the fire engines, to put the fire out. Thats the kind of work I would like. Every body screaming, and pumping,
21、and playing streams of watertwenty firemen rushing up ladders, pulling old women and cats out16 of the windows, and somebody inside pitching out the looking glasses and crockery to save them! I wish our house was on fire this very minute, so I could pull you and Helen out, and save all the furniture
22、. That would be the greatest fun in the world!Please dont set fire to the house, cried his mother, laughing, for the fun of saving our lives. I prefer to keep it just as it is, and walking quietly out at the door. As she spoke, the sun suddenly burst forth from the clouds, and his bright rays dartin
23、g into the room, the children sprang joyfully up, and, with their mothers consent, were soon out of the house with jumping-rope and17 hoop, to join their little companions in a neighboring park.George and Helen were two charming, ingenuous children. George was full of frolic, mischief, and fun, with
24、 generous impulses and excellent intentions, which only required peculiar and careful training and encouragement to develop him into a steady, high-principled man. Locking him up with nothing to do, as he truly said, did him more harm than good; he required active punishment, and his mother wisely i
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