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儿童英语读物 The Mystery in the Mall CHAPTER 5 Benny’s Good Idea

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Benny and his new coconut1 monkey were a big hit the next day. Several of Penny’s customers asked whether it was for sale. “No way,” he answered with a cheerful smile.

Benny’s monkey even came to the rescue when a little girl came in to have her picture taken for a pirate2 picture. Henry did everything he could to make the girl smile, but she wouldn’t put her face behind the pirate cutout.

“Come on, Katie, stay still and smile for the camera,” the little girl’s mother said.

But the little girl wouldn’t smile. In fact, every time she looked up at her mother, her lip trembled as if she were about to cry, not smile.

“Oh, dear,” the mother said. “We were going to get a pirate photo for her dad’s birthday.”

Henry made funny faces. He held up a teddy bear. But the little girl kept getting up and running to her mother.

Benny figured out just what to do. “Wait a minute, Henry. I’ve got an idea.” Benny placed a stool3 next to his brother. “I’ll stand next to you and hold up my monkey. I’ll make faces. That will make the little girl laugh.”

Sure enough, as soon as the little girl saw the monkey’s silly face and Benny’s identical silly face, she sat still and gave the two boys a big, dimpled smile. Click! A perfect picture.

Pretty soon, there was a line of customers who wanted pirate pictures, too. “With the monkey, okay?” some of them asked.

So Benny lent out his monkey. But he was very careful to keep an eye on it. One little boy’s dad offered Benny ten dollars for the monkey.

“It’s not for sale,” Benny said.

“I’m expecting a shipment4 in a few days,” Penny told all the customers who wanted coconut monkeys. “Make sure to come back.”

“You children have worked enough today,” Penny said later on. “Didn’t you tell me you had some shopping to do at the mall? The stores close soon, so why don’t you leave now?”

Jessie and Violet finished wrapping last-minute souvenirs for several senior citizens who had to get back to their bus.

“Grandfather gave us money to get new jeans before we go back to school,” Jessie told Penny. “That jeans shop next door has a lot of them. I guess this is a good time to go shopping.”

It was never a good time for Benny to go clothes shopping. He wanted to go to the store that sold nothing but train models. Or go window-shopping at the store that had puppies5 in the window. Or stay at Penny’s and show off his monkey Anything but clothes shopping.

“Come on, Benny” Jessie said. “We might as well get it over with. You’re growing like a tree all the time. Look how short your jeans are.”

Benny looked down. About two inches of his socks showed between the bottom of his jeans and the top of his sneakers. “I like short jeans,” he told Jessie.

“Well, either you get new jeans or those jeans will soon look like shorts, not pants,” Henry said, half joking. “Same with mine. I’m not much of a shopper6, either, but sooner or later we all need new jeans.”

The children walked over to the store next door. The Jeans Warehouse7 carried denim8 pants, jackets, shirts, and shorts. There were jeans stacked to the ceiling.

“How will we ever decide on jeans?” Violet asked. “The jeans store in Greenfield only has a few kinds.”

“I’ll help you,” a smiling young woman told Violet when she overheard10 her. “Tell me your sizes.”

“We all need jeans,” Jessie announced. “Here’s a list of our sizes.”

“Sure thing,” the young woman said. “Why don’t you each find a dressing11 room in back. I’ll bring in some jeans for each of you.”

The children found several empty dressing rooms and waited for the saleswoman. In a few minutes she came back with piles of jeans for the Aldens to try on. Jessie and Violet each found a pair right away.

“We’re going to go pay for our jeans,” Jessie told Henry as she stood outside his dressing room. “We’ll be browsing12 around in the shops nearby. See you in a while.”

Benny also decided13 on a pair quickly, the very first pair he tried. Jeans were jeans, and he wasn’t going to try on any other pairs. He sat down in his dressing room to wait for Henry. He played with his coconut monkey and made funny faces in the dressing room mirror. “Next time, save your old jeans for me, okay?” he called over to Henry in the next dressing room. “Then I won’t have to go shopping again.”

The boys stopped talking while Henry changed back into his regular clothes. That’s how the boys happened to overhear9 two people talking just a ways down.

“I told you I don’t want to get involved in this even to help you out,” the young saleswoman said. “My boss said I can’t hire anyone while she’s away.”

Henry and Benny heard the door to another dressing room bang shut. “I could work in the storeroom. I’m used to heavy lifting from my job on the boat.”

“Sorry,” the saleswoman said. “I’ll let you know as soon as my boss comes back about whether we can hire you. Why don’t you try some of the other stores.”

“I ... uh ... well, I like this store, that’s all,” the man said.

Henry and Benny didn’t hear anything else. They gathered up their new jeans and carried them to the cash register. While he waited to pay, Henry looked around the store. “That man’s voice sounded familiar.”

“Did you see who it was?” Benny asked.

“No, and now it’s going to drive me bananas all day.”

As they left the store, Benny suddenly felt empty-handed. “Uh-oh.”

Henry looked down. “What’s that uh-oh about?”

Benny’s ears turned pink. He didn’t want to tell Henry what had happened.

“My new coconut monkey! I think I left it in the dressing room when I was talking to you,” Benny said.

“No problem. Just run back inside the store and get it,” Henry said. “I’ll wait right here.”

When Benny came back, he was empty-handed again.

“What happened? Wasn’t the monkey there?” Henry asked.

Benny swallowed hard. He wasn’t going to cry, but he was upset with himself. After all, Henry had gone out and found him another monkey. Now it was lost again.

Henry went back inside to a clerk at the counter. “Did someone find a monkey in the dressing room?”

The clerk shook his head. “What an odd question! A monkey in the dressing room? How would a monkey get in there?”

The saleswoman came out of the dressing room area. She held up the coconut monkey. “Yip! Yip!” she said.

Benny ran toward the young woman. “Phew, I thought I lost this. Thank you.”

“I saw you come in with it before, so I put it away when I found it. I knew you would come back,” the woman said. “And the funny thing was, a man saw it and said it was his, but I didn’t let him have it.”

“Good thing,” Henry said. “The one I bought at that other store was the last one in stock. Now, Benny, you’d better keep that next to you wherever you go.”

Benny hugged his monkey. “I’ll be really careful this time.” With that, he put the coconut deep in his shopping bag. “Now nobody can see it.”


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1 coconut VwCzNM     
n.椰子
参考例句:
  • The husk of this coconut is particularly strong.椰子的外壳很明显非常坚固。
  • The falling coconut gave him a terrific bang on the head.那只掉下的椰子砰地击中他的脑袋。
2 pirate F23z9     
n.海盗,每盗船
参考例句:
  • The pirate chief commanded that the prisoners should be shot.海盗头子下令枪毙俘虏。
  • The shore batteries fired at the pirate boat.海岸炮兵向海盗船开火。
3 stool nU7zv     
n.凳子;粪便;根株;v.长出新枝,排便
参考例句:
  • The stool is steady enough.这个凳子很稳。
  • The boy was straining at stool.那个男孩在用力大便。
4 shipment cyVwp     
n.装货,装载的货物
参考例句:
  • The goods are done up in bundles for shipment.货物已打包以备装船。
  • Please advise the date of shipment as soon as possible.请尽快通知装货日期。
5 puppies 679f34ba1ec7d7ee1f1718acc24f53d7     
n.(常指不满一岁的)小狗(puppy的复数);小狗,幼犬( puppy的名词复数 );浅薄自负的年轻男子
参考例句:
  • a litter of puppies 一窝小狗
  • The bitch bore six puppies. 母狗生了六只小狗。 来自《简明英汉词典》
6 shopper IidzcX     
n.购物者,顾客
参考例句:
  • Hong Kong is a shopper's paradise.香港是购物者的天堂。
  • She is one shopper who takes responsibility in bagging her own goods.她是一名承担责任把食品装进袋子的顾客。
7 warehouse 6h7wZ     
n.仓库;vt.存入仓库
参考例句:
  • We freighted the goods to the warehouse by truck.我们用卡车把货物运到仓库。
  • The manager wants to clear off the old stocks in the warehouse.经理想把仓库里积压的存货处理掉。
8 denim o9Lya     
n.斜纹棉布;斜纹棉布裤,牛仔裤
参考例句:
  • She wore pale blue denim shorts and a white denim work shirt.她穿着一条淡蓝色的斜纹粗棉布短裤,一件白粗布工作服上衣。
  • Dennis was dressed in denim jeans.丹尼斯穿了一条牛仔裤。
9 overhear 3Kqxy     
vt.无意中听到,偷听到
参考例句:
  • I happened to overhear what he said.我碰巧听到他说的话。
  • They stepped aside so that their child could not overhear their conversation.他们走到一边去,不让孩子听见他们的谈话。
10 overheard overheard     
adj. 串音的, 偶而听到的 动词overhear的过去式和过去分词形式
参考例句:
  • We talked quietly so as not to be overheard. 我们低声交谈,以免别人听到。
  • I told Lucy the news under my breath, but Joyce overheard me. 我低声地把这个消息告诉露西,可还是被乔伊斯听到了。
11 dressing 1uOzJG     
n.(食物)调料;包扎伤口的用品,敷料
参考例句:
  • Don't spend such a lot of time in dressing yourself.别花那么多时间来打扮自己。
  • The children enjoy dressing up in mother's old clothes.孩子们喜欢穿上妈妈旧时的衣服玩。
12 browsing 509387f2f01ecf46843ec18c927f7822     
v.吃草( browse的现在分词 );随意翻阅;(在商店里)随便看看;(在计算机上)浏览信息
参考例句:
  • He sits browsing over[through] a book. 他坐着翻阅书籍。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Cattle is browsing in the field. 牛正在田里吃草。 来自《简明英汉词典》
13 decided lvqzZd     
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
参考例句:
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
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