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儿童英语读物 棚车少年 Boxcar Children 13 棚车的新家

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XIII—A New Home for the Boxcar

THE CHILDREN’S grandfather wanted them to like his house. He wanted them to live with him all the time. So he had made over some of the rooms just for them.

The children went with him in his car to see the house. When the car stopped in front of it, Henry cried in surprise, “Do you live here, in this beautiful house?”

It was a beautiful house. It was very big, with many trees and flower gardens around it.

“You may live here, too, if you like my house,” remarked his grandfather, watching Henry’s face.

The house was beautiful inside, too. There were flowers everywhere. There were maids everywhere. The children went up to the bedrooms.

“Oh!” cried Jessie. “This is Violet1’s room.”

It really was Violet’s room. There were violets2 on the wallpaper. The bed was white with a violet cover. On the table were flowers.

“What a beautiful room!” cried Violet, sitting down in a soft, pretty chair.

All the children shouted when they saw Benny’s room. The wallpaper was blue and covered with big rabbits and dogs and bears. There were a rocking horse and a tool box and little tables and chairs. And an engine stood on a track, with cars almost as big as the little boy himself. Benny ran over to the engine.

“Can I run this train all day?” he asked. He sat down on the floor by the engine.

“Oh, no,” said Henry. “You are going to school as soon as it begins.”

His grandfather laughed. “That is right, my boy. You will like school. You will learn to read.”

“Oh, I can read now,” said Benny.

In Jessie’s room they found a bed for Watch. It was on the floor by her bed. Watch got in at once, sniffed4 at the pillow, turned around three times, and lay down.

“He likes it,” said Jessie. “He will sleep by me.”

Just then the children heard a doorbell ring. A maid came up to find Mr. Alden.

“A man to see you,” she said, “about the dog.”

Now when Jessie heard the word dog, she was frightened. She was afraid it was about Watch.

“They won’t take Watch away?” she whispered to Henry.

“No, indeed!” said Henry. “We’ll never, never give him up.”

Henry and Jessie and the other children went down with their grandfather to see the man, and Jessie was more frightened than ever. Watch did not growl5 at the man. He jumped up on him delightedly.

“You see, he was my dog,” said the man. “But I sold him to a lady, and he ran away from her that very day. I have to turn him over to the lady I sold him to.”

“How do you know he is the same dog?” asked Mr. Alden.

“Oh, he is my dog,” said the man. “You see he knows me, and he has a small black spot on this foot. But someone has cut his hair on one side.”

Benny looked. He found the black spot on Watch’s foot.

“I never saw that spot before,” said Henry.

“I will give you what you want for the dog,” said Mr. Alden. “The children love him. They want to keep him.”

“But I sold him to a lady,” said the man. “I must take the dog to her.”

Then Henry said, “Maybe she will want to change to another dog when she sees his hair. If she will agree to take another dog, will you let my grandfather have this one?”

“Yes, I will,” said the man.

“Let’s go and ask her, Grandfather,” said Benny. “She will let Jessie have Watch. He is her dog. She took the thorn6 out of his foot.”

The man told Mr. Alden where the lady lived, and they all started out to find her. She was a very pretty young lady, and she asked them to sit down.

But Benny could not wait. He said, “Please let us keep Watch! I want him, and Jessie wants him, and we didn’t know he was your dog.”

“What do you mean?” asked the lady, laughing. “Who is Watch?”

“This dog is Watch,” answered Henry. “A man came to Grandfather’s house today and told us that he had sold the dog to you. When Watch ran away from you, the day you bought him, he came to us. He had a thorn in his foot, and Jessie took it out.”

Watch looked up at the lady and wagged7 his tail. When she looked at him, she began to laugh.

“Look at his side!” she said. “Who cut his hair?”

“I’m sorry,” said Henry. “Benny did that one day with Violet’s scissors.”

“I am not sorry,” said the lady, laughing. “He looks so funny. And you want to keep him? Is that it?”

“Oh, yes,” said Jessie eagerly. “The man will let us have him, if you will take another dog.”

“Don’t be afraid,” said the young lady. “You may keep the dog. I can change to another one.”

“Oh, thank you! You are nice!” cried Benny.

He ran to the lady and climbed up in her lap before anyone could stop him.

“I’d like to keep you, Benny, in place of the dog,” laughed the lady, putting her arms around him.

How happy the children were to have Watch to keep! Mr. Alden gave the money to the man at once.

Four happy children sat with their grandfather around the Alden dinner table that night. The maids smiled in the kitchen to hear the children laugh. And the children laughed because Watch had a chair at the table beside Jessie and was really waited on by a maid.

Would you ever think that four children could be homesick in such a beautiful house? Jessie was the first one to wish for the old boxcar.

One day she said, “Oh, Grandfather, I’d like to cook something once more in the dear old kettle in the woods.”

“Go out in the kitchen, my dear,” said her grandfather. “The maids will help you. You can cook all you want to.”

Jessie liked this, but it was not like the old days in the boxcar.

Then one day Benny said, “Grandfather, I wish I could drink my milk out of my dear old pink cup.”

His grandfather began to think. He had some pink cups, but they were not so dear to Benny as his old cracked one.

At last Mr. Alden said, “I am going to give you children a surprise.”

“Is it very nice?” asked Benny.

“No, not very,” laughed his grandfather. “It is not pretty at all.”

“When will it come?” asked Benny.

“It will come today. You children must all go over to Dr. Moore’s and stay, until the surprise comes.”

“What can it be?” wondered Violet.

Her grandfather laughed. “I hope you will like it,” he said. “It is very heavy.”

The children were glad to see sweet Mrs. Moore and the kind doctor again. They stayed until Mr. Alden said the surprise was ready. Then Dr. Moore and his mother went back with them in the big car.

Mr. Alden was as happy as a boy. He took them by the garage and through the big gardens. At last they came to a garden with a fountain in the middle and trees around it. Near the fountain was the surprise. It was the old boxcar!

The children ran over to it with cries of delight, opened the door, and climbed in. All the things were in place. Even the old dead stump8 was there to step on.

Here was the old knife which had cut butter and bread and vegetables and firewood and string. Here was Benny’s pink cup, and here was his bed. Here were the big kettle and the blue tablecloth9. Here were the pitcher10 and the old teapot. And here was the dinner bell which the children had made from an old tin can.

Benny hung it on a tree with a string and rang it over and over again with a spoon. Watch rolled on the floor of the car and barked and barked. Then he began to sniff3 at everything.

“He’s looking for the bone he buried,” laughed Benny.

“How they love the old boxcar!” said Mrs. Moore. “I like to see them so happy.”

“Thank you for the surprise, Grandfather,” said Violet. “We’ll never go away from you again.”

“I hope not, my dear,” said Mr. Alden. “We’ll all live happily ever after.”

And so they did.


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1 violet 8h3wm     
adj.紫色的;n.紫罗兰
参考例句:
  • She likes to wear violet dresses.他喜欢穿紫色的衣服。
  • Violet is the color of wisdom,peace and strength.紫色是智慧的,和平的和力量的颜色。
2 violets 1a36012c0fc0ebf80f0f4790bf958637     
n.紫罗兰( violet的名词复数 );蓝紫色,紫罗兰色
参考例句:
  • There are many violets in the garden. 花园里有许多紫罗兰。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The woman carried a bouquet of dried violets. 这个女人拿着一束干枯的紫罗兰。 来自辞典例句
3 sniff PF7zs     
vi.嗅…味道;抽鼻涕;对嗤之以鼻,蔑视
参考例句:
  • The police used dogs to sniff out the criminals in their hiding - place.警察使用警犬查出了罪犯的藏身地点。
  • When Munchie meets a dog on the beach, they sniff each other for a while.当麦奇在海滩上碰到另一条狗的时候,他们会彼此嗅一会儿。
4 sniffed ccb6bd83c4e9592715e6230a90f76b72     
v.以鼻吸气,嗅,闻( sniff的过去式和过去分词 );抽鼻子(尤指哭泣、患感冒等时出声地用鼻子吸气);抱怨,不以为然地说
参考例句:
  • When Jenney had stopped crying she sniffed and dried her eyes. 珍妮停止了哭泣,吸了吸鼻子,擦干了眼泪。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The dog sniffed suspiciously at the stranger. 狗疑惑地嗅着那个陌生人。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 growl VeHzE     
v.(狗等)嗥叫,(炮等)轰鸣;n.嗥叫,轰鸣
参考例句:
  • The dog was biting,growling and wagging its tail.那条狗在一边撕咬一边低声吼叫,尾巴也跟着摇摆。
  • The car growls along rutted streets.汽车在车辙纵横的街上一路轰鸣。
6 thorn WIMzP     
n.刺,荆棘,带刺小灌木
参考例句:
  • The little boy stepped on a sharp thorn.那小男孩踩着了一根尖刺。
  • The dog had a thorn in its pad.这只狗的爪垫上扎了根刺。
7 wagged 60283031c63ec779719fd6c0e9e67a65     
v.(使)摇动,摇摆( wag的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • The dog wagged its tail with pleasure. 那条狗高兴得直摇尾巴。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • She wagged her finger with mock severity. 她故作严厉地摆了摆手指。 来自《简明英汉词典》
8 stump hGbzY     
n.残株,烟蒂,讲演台;v.砍断,蹒跚而走
参考例句:
  • He went on the stump in his home state.他到故乡所在的州去发表演说。
  • He used the stump as a table.他把树桩用作桌子。
9 tablecloth lqSwh     
n.桌布,台布
参考例句:
  • He sat there ruminating and picking at the tablecloth.他坐在那儿沉思,轻轻地抚弄着桌布。
  • She smoothed down a wrinkled tablecloth.她把起皱的桌布熨平了。
10 pitcher S2Gz7     
n.(有嘴和柄的)大水罐;(棒球)投手
参考例句:
  • He poured the milk out of the pitcher.他从大罐中倒出牛奶。
  • Any pitcher is liable to crack during a tight game.任何投手在紧张的比赛中都可能会失常。
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