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A Useful Lesson
In England nobody under the age of eighteen is
allowed to drink in a public bar.
Mr. Thompson used to go to a bar near his house quite
often, but he never took his son, Tom, because he was too young.
Then when has his eighteenth birthday, Mr. Thompson took him to his
usual bar for the first time. They drank for half an hour, and then
Mr. Thompson said to his son, "Now, Tom, I want to teach you a
useful lesson. You must always be careful not to drink too much. And
how do you know you when you've had enough? Well, I'll tell you. Do
you see those two lights at the end of the bar? When they seem to
have become four, you've had enouth and should go home."
"But ,Dad," said Tom, "I can see only one light at
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A Rich Father
John D.
Rockefeller, the well-known millionarie, gave away millions, but he
himself was very mean about small sums of money. One day he
went to stay at a hotel in New York and asked for the cheapest room
in it. He said, " I am staying here alone and only need a
small room."
The
manager showed him into a room and said, "This is our smallest and
cheapest room," and added, "but shy do you choose a poor room like
this? When your son stays here, he always has our most
expensive room; yours is the cheapest."
"Oh,
yes," said Rockefeller, "But his father is a rich an, mine isn't."
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The Rain
A small boy and his father was
having a walk in the country when it suddenly began to rain very
hard. They did not have their umbrella with them, and there was
nowhere to hide from the rain, so they were soon very wet. and the
small boy did not feel very happy.
For a long time while they were
walking home through the rain, the boy was thinking, Then at last he
turned to his father and said to him, "Why does it rain, Father? It
isn't very nice, is it?
"No
, it isn't very nice, but it's very useful, Tom," answered his
father.
"It
rains to make the fruit and the vegetables grow for us, and to make
the grass grow for the cows and sheep."
Tom thought about this for
a few seconds, and then he said, "Then, why does it rain on eh road
too, Father?"
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A girl just like mother
No matter which girl he brought home, the your man found disapproval
from his mother. A friend gave him advice "Find a girl just
like your mother ---then she's bound to like her."
So the young man searched and search, and finally found
the girl. He told his friendly adviser: "just like you said, I found
a girl who looked, talked dressed and even cooked like mother.
And just as you said, mother liked her"
"So, asked the freind, "what happened?"
"Nothing," said the young man, "My father hates her!" |
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