Story 29 A Clever Hare
Billy hare is hungry and finds a radish. What he picks it up, Mr. Fox is behind him and wants to eat him. “I’m hungry, too. You’ve my dinner. I’m going to eat you,” ha says.
Billy Hare is shocked, but he isn’t scared. He says, “Follow me. I have better food for you.”
They go to a well.
“Look down here,” Billy Hare says “There is something in the water. “What’s that?” Mr. Fox asks surprisingly. “It’s a big and fat hen. Let’s get down and fetch it.” Billy Hare says and gets down with a pail.
“Can you out the hen into the pail?” Mr. Fox shouts. “No. She’s too big,” Billy Hare says, “Come down, please. We can take her up together. Jump into the other pail.”
Mr.Fox does so. When he gets down, Billy Hare gets up. “Good-bye!” Billy Hare gets down, Billy Hare gets out of the well and says. Mr. Fox can’t get out.
故事29 聰明的野兔
野兔比利很餓,他找到了一只蘿卜。當他撿起蘿卜的時候,狐貍先生正在他的生后,想吃了他。 “我也餓了。你是我的晚餐,我要吃了你。”狐貍說。
比利很吃驚,但是他并不害怕。他說:“跟我來,我有更好的食物給你。”
他們來來一口井邊。
“朝這下面看,”比利說, “水里有東西。”“是什么呀?”狐貍先生好奇地問:“那是一只有大又費肥的母親。我們下去把她捉上來。”比利說著,乘一只水桶下去了。
“你能把雞放進桶里里。”狐貍問他:“不行,這只雞太大了,”比利說,“下來吧。我們可以一起把它捉上去。快掉到另一只水桶里吧。”
狐貍照做了。當他下去的時候,比利就上來了。“再見。”比利從井里出來時說。而狐貍卻出不來了。