Once upon a time, there were four mice that lived in a wall in the field.
Summer was coming, and so the mice came out of the wall to collect berries, nuts, corn and straw. Everyone was working very hard, day and night.
Everyone was working very hard, except, Frederick.
“Why aren’t you working, Frederick?” his friends asked him. “oh,but I am.” Frederick told them. “I’m collecting the sunshine for the cold, dark winter.”
A few days later his friends asked him again “why aren’t you working,Frederick?” “Oh, but I am.” Frederick told them. “I’m collecting colors for the long, grey winter.”
A few days later his friends asked him again “why aren’t you working, Frederick?” “Oh, but I am.” Frederick told them. “I’m collecting words for the long, quiet winter.”
Soon, the first snow came, and the four mice went back into the wall.
They ate their berries and they ate their nuts and they ate their corn and they ate their straw. But time passed, and time passed, and soon there were no more berries, and soon there were no more nuts and soon there were no more corn and soon there were no more straw.
Now the winter was cold and dark, long and quiet. The mice were sad and hungry. Then they remembered Frederick.
“Hey, Frederick, can you show us what you collected for the winter.”
“Ok,” said Frederick, “close your eyes. Here is my sunshine for the cold, dark inter.” And Frederick b
began to tell his friends some stories, and the mice to feel warmer and warmer.
“Great, Frederick! How about the colors and the words?”
“Ok,” said Frederick, “close your eyes” and he told them about theblue skies, and he told them about the red poppies, and he told them about thegreen grass, and he told them about the purple berries, and he told them about theyellow corn of summer.
“That’s wonderful, Frederick, thank you.” Said the mice. “We’ve learnedsomething about you”, they told him.
I have nine little goldfish .Eight goldfish are all orange and one is black .I like the black one best. We call it Xiao Hei .Its body is black .It has two big and round eyes, a small mouth ,and a big tail. Though it's very small ,it swims fast .
I often feed them and change water for them. We are good friends .
A cat goes to a river every day. He wants to go fishing. But he can’t catch any fish.
一只猫每天去河边,他想去钓鱼,但是他去钓不到一条。
One day, he goes to the river as usual. Suddenly a fish comes out. He catches the fish. He is very happy. He forgets to put the fish in the basket. He dances and sings. He shouts, “I have a fish! I have a fish!” All his friends come to see him.
King Pandion of Athens had two daughters,Procne and Philomela.When Athens wasthreatened by the wild men,King Tereus of Thrace came to its help.Out of gratitude KingPandion offered Tereus either of his daughters in marriage and the Thracian king chose Procneas wife. For yearsthey lived in Thrace and had one son,Itylus by name.Then Procne becamehomesick and longed to see her dear sister Philomela.At her repeated requests Tereus sailedto Athens tofetch Philomela.On the way back his evil heart took flame at the sight of Philomelawho was then in her beauty of maidenhood.He seized and carried her away by force,cut outher tongue and imprisoned her in a lonely hut in the woods.To Procne he lied,saying thatPhilomela was dead.Philomela stayed in prison for ayear,where she had woven her painfulstory into the web of a robe .Then she managed to send the robe to her sister. As soon asshe received the web Procne came over to the woods and to reher sister away from thekeepers.
Back at the palace, the two women,hot for paying back ,killed little Itylus and served him upto his father . When Tereus learned of the terrible truth he grasped his sword and chased thesisters into the woods. There the gods turned Procne into a swallow,Philomela a nightingaleand Tereus a hoopoe .
Ajax was a man of giant stature,daring but slow.When the Trojan War was about to breakout he led his forces from Salamis to join the GREek army at Aulis.As one of the trustiestchampions of the Greek cause,he was given thejob of guarding one end of the Greek campnear Troy.He was noted in the battlefield for his bravery and courage.After Achilles' death hebecame one of the two hot contestants for the dead hero's shield and armour,the other beingOdysseus.When the weapons were finally judged to his rival,Ajax went mad forgrief.Unable to get over the hardships,he took his own life.When,in order to seek theadvice of,Odysseus came to visit the lower world,the shade of Ajax frowned uponhim.In thelower world Ajax chose to be a lion,guided clearly by the bitter recollection of his former life.
Dionysus was the god of wine.He was the son of Zeus by Semele. When his mother wasburnt to death in the glory of Zeus .He was still a helpless infant.His father trusted hisupbringing to some mountain fairy maidens .They tookthe GREatest care of him. Under thetutorship of Silennus,the Satyr, he was introduced to all the secrets of nature and the cultureof the wine. He travelled far and wide in his carriage drawn by wild beasts. He was said tohave been to India and Ethiopia .Wherever he went, there was music and song andrevelling.Hisattendants,known as the Bacchantes, were noted for their noiseanddisorder.A most wild,noisy crow,they drank,danced andsang in a careless way.Thewomen Bacchantes were infamous for their excessive immodesty and disgraceful excitement.In their madness and intoxication they committed cruel violence. They tore Orpheus,thegifted musician,limb from limb.King Pentheus of Thebes,for frowning on the worship ofBacchus in his kingdom, suffered the same treatment at the hands of a band of thesefanatical women,of whom his own mother was the leader.