LESSON 14 HENRY, THE BOOTBLACK 擦鞋童亨利

1.Henry was a kind, good boy.His father was dead, and his mother was very poor.He had a little sister about two years old.

2.He wanted to help his mother, for she could not always earn enough to buy food for her little family.

3.One day, a man gave him a dollar for finding a pocketbook which he had lost.

4.Henry might have kept all the money, for no one saw him when he found it.But his mother had taught him to be honest, and never to keep what did not belong to him.

5.With the dollar he bought a box, three brushes, and some blacking.He then went to the corner of the street, and said to every one whose boots did not look nice, “Black your boots, sir, please? ”

6.He was so polite that gentlemen soon began to notice him, and to let him black their boots.The fi rst day he brought home fi fty cents, which he gave to his mother to buy food with.

7.When he gave her the money, she said, as she dropped a tear of joy, “You are a dear, good boy, Henry.I did not know how I could earn enough to buy bread with, but now I think we can manage to get along quite well.”

8.Henry worked all the day, and went to school in the evening.He earned almost enough to support his mother and his little sister.

【中文閱讀】

1.亨利是個善良的孩子。爸爸去世了，媽媽很窮，家里還有個兩歲大的小妹妹。

2.媽媽賺的錢常常不夠家里吃的，所以亨利想幫媽媽。

3.有一天，亨利幫人找到了丟失的錢包，那個人給了亨利一塊錢。

4.當(dāng)時，亨利可以留下所有撿到的錢，因為他撿錢包時沒人看見。但媽媽教過他為人要誠實，絕不能拿不屬于自己的東西。

5.他用那一塊錢買了一個盒子、三把刷子和一些黑鞋油。然后，他走到街角，對路過時靴子上有塵土的人說：“先生，讓我為您擦擦鞋好嗎？”

6.他文明有禮的舉動讓人們立刻注意到他。他擦皮鞋的生意就這樣做起來了。第一天，他賺了五毛錢，回家后交給媽媽買吃的。

7.當(dāng)他把錢交給媽媽時，媽媽流下了幸福的淚水：“亨利，好孩子，你真可愛。以前我不知道如何才能賺足夠的錢買面包，現(xiàn)在我知道我們能做到了。”

8.亨利白天要干一整天的活，晚上則去學(xué)校上課。他賺的錢幾乎足以供養(yǎng)媽媽和小妹妹。