VISITING AT GRANDMOTHER’S

 Grandmother asked Jan and Katrina to come and visit her one day. She told them to bring their friends, Hilda, Kassie, Karl, and Bram with them.

Hilda, Kassie, Karl, and Bram were all glad to go. So they dressed in their best.

“We will meet by the windmill,” they said, “and we will go along the dike¹ to grandmother’s house.” So they met at the windmill, and away they went all together.

Grandmother was looking for them. She took them into the house. She gave them each a bowl of curds² and whey and some nice, fresh honey cakes.

“Oh, how good this is!” cried Kassie.

 

“Yes, yes, Grandmother, no one can make curds and whey like yours,” said Jan.

“Or honey cakes either,” said Karl.

When the children went home, grandmother gave each one of them a honey cake cut like a heart. She gave each one a pretty shell³.

The children said, “We have had such a good time, grandmother.”

And grandmother said, “I have had a good time, too, children. You must come to see me again soon.”

1 dike   

n.堤，沟；v.开沟排水

参考例句：

• They dug a dike along walls of the school.他们沿校墙挖沟。
• Fortunately,the flood did not break the dike.还好，这场大水没有把堤坝冲坏。

2 curds   

n.凝乳( curd的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Little miss muffet sat on a tuffet eating some curds and whey. 小玛菲特小姐坐在垫子上，吃着凝乳和乳清。 来自互联网
• The curds contain casein, fat and minerals. 凝乳中有酪蛋白、脂肪、矿物质。 来自互联网

3 shell   

n.贝壳，壳，外形；v.去壳，脱落；n.[计算机] DOS命令:安装备用的COMMAND.COM文件，并改变环境尺寸

参考例句：

• Please shell some peanuts for the cake.请为做点心剥点胡花生。
• This kind of beetles have hard shell.这类甲虫有坚硬的外壳。