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3. TELLING A STORY
Қазір сізге өте қызық story беріледі. Мұқият
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рет оқып шығыңыз. Ішінде кездескен
жаңа сөздерді VOCABULARY бөлімінде
жазып, жаттаңыз. Әңгімені оқып болған
соң, міндетті түрде түсінігін айтуыңыз
керек. Ол туралы инстаграмда пост
жазыңыз. Өте күшті практика. Осындай
әңгіме оқыдым деп өз инсайтыңызбен
бөлісіңіз, әрине ағылшын тілінде.
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деп мені белгілеуді
ұмытпаңыз. Сізге міндетті түрде кері
байланыс беремін.
Once upon a time there were four little Rab-
bits, and their names were
— Flopsy, Mopsy,
Cotton-tail, and Peter.
They lived with their Mother in a sand-bank,
underneath the root of a very big fir tree.
“Now, my dears,” said old Mrs. Rabbit one
morning,
“you may go into the fields or down
the lane, but
don’t go into Mr. McGregor’s gar-
den: your Father had an accident there; he
was put in a pie by Mrs.
McGregor.”
“Now run along, and don’t get into mischief. I
am going
out.”
Then old Mrs. Rabbit took a basket and her
umbrella, to the
baker’s. She bought a loaf of
brown bread and five currant buns.
Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail, who were g o o d
little bunnies, went down the lane to gather
blackberries;
But Peter, who was very naughty, ran straight
away to Mr.
McGregor’s garden and squeezed
under the gate!
First he ate some lettuces and some French
beans; and then he ate some radishes;
An d then, feeling rather sick, he went to look
for some parsley.
But round the end of a cucumber frame,
w h o m should he meet but Mr. McGregor!
Mr. McGregor was on his hands and knees
planting out young cabbages, but he jumped
up and ran after Peter, waving a rake and call-
ing out,
“Stop thief!”
Peter was most dreadfully frightened; he
rushed all over the garden, for he had forgot-
ten the way back to the gate.
He lost one of his shoes among the cabbages,
and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
After losing them, he ran on four legs and
went faster, so that I think he might have g o t
away altogether if he had not unfortunately
run into a gooseberry net, and g o t caught by
the large buttons on his jacket. It was a blue
jacket with brass buttons, quite new.
Peter gave himself up for lost, and shed big
tears; but his sobs were overheard by some
friendly sparrows, who flew to him in great ex-
citement, and implored him to exert himself.
Mr. McGregor came up with a sieve, which he
intended to p o p upon the to p of Peter; but
Peter wriggled out just in time, leaving his
jacket behind him.
An d rushed into the toolshed, and jumped
into a can. It would have been a beautiful
thing to hide in, if it had not had so much wa-
ter in it.
Mr. McGregor was quite sure that Peter was
somewhere in the toolshed, perhaps hidden
underneath a flower-pot. He began to turn
them over carefully, looking under each.
Presently Peter sneezed
— “Kertyschoo!” Mr.
McGregor was after him in no time,
An d tried to put his foot upon Peter, who
jumped out of a window, upsetting three
plants. The window was too small for Mr.
McGregor, and he was tired of running after
Peter. He went back to his work.
Peter sat down to rest; he was out of breath
and trembling with fright, and he had not the
least idea which way to go. Also he was very
damp with sitting in that can.
After a time he began to wander about, going
lippity
— lippity—not very fast, and looking all
around.
He found a door in a wall; but it was locked,
and there was no room for a fat little rabbit to
squeeze underneath.
An old mouse was running in and out over
the stone doorstep, carrying peas and beans
to her family in the wood. Peter asked her the
way to the gate, but she had such a large pea
in her mouth that she could not answer. She
only shook her head at him. Peter began to
cry.
Then he tried to find his way straight across
the garden, but he became more and more
puzzled. Presently, he came to a pond where
Mr. McGregor filled his water-cans. A white cat
was staring at some gold-fish; she sat very,
very still, but now and then the tip of her tail
twitched as if it were alive. Peter thought it
best to g o away without speaking to her; he
had heard about cats from his cousin, little
Benjamin Bunny.
He went back towards the tool-shed, but sud-
denly, quite close to him, he heard the noise
of a hoe
—scr-r-ritch, scratch, scratch, scritch.
Peter scuttered underneath the bushes. But
presently, as nothing happened, he came out,
and climbed upon a wheelbarrow, and peeped
over. The first thing he saw was Mr. McGregor
hoeing onions. His back was turned towards
Peter, and beyond him was the gate!
Peter g o t down very quietly off the wheel-
barrow, and started running as fast as he
could go, along a straight walk behind some
black-currant bushes.
Mr.McGregor caught sight of him at the cor-
ner, but Peter did not care. He slipped un-
derneath the gate, and was safe at last in the
w o o d outside the garden.
Mr.McGregor hung up the little jacket and the
shoes for a scare-crow to frighten the black-
birds.
Peter never stopped running or looked behind
him till he g o t home to the big fir-tree.
He was so tired that he flopped down upon
the nice soft sand on the floor of the rab-
bit-hole, and shut his eyes. His mother was
busy cooking; she wondered what he had
done with his clothes. It was the second little
jacket and pair of shoes that Peter had lost in
a fortnight!
I am sorry to say that Peter was not very well
during the evening.
His mother put him to bed, and made some
camomile tea; and she gave a dose of it to Pe-
ter!
“One table-spoonful to be taken at bed-time.”
But Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail had bread
and milk and blackberries, for supper. THE
END.
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