THE WIND'S FUN

 

 

One day the wind blew through the town, and oh, how merry it was! It whistled down the chimneys, and scampered¹ round the corners, and sang in the tree tops. "Come and dance, come and dance, come and dance with me," that is what it seemed to say.

 

And what could keep from dancing to such a merry tune²? The clothes danced on the clothes-line, the leaves danced on the branches of the trees, a bit of paper danced about the street, and a little boy's hat danced off of his head and down the sidewalk as fast as it could go.

 

It was a sailor hat with a blue ribbon around it; and the ends of the ribbons flew out behind like little blue flags.

 

 

"Stop!" cried the little boy as it blew away; but the hat could not stop. The wind whirled it and twirled it, and landed it at last right in the middle of the street.

 

"Now I'll get it," said the child, and he was just reaching his hand out for it when off it went again, rolling over and over like a hoop³.

 

"Nobody can catch me," thought the hat proudly; "and I do not know myself how far I shall go."

 

Just then the wind whisked it into an alley⁴, and dropped it behind a barrel there. When the little boy looked into the alley, it was nowhere to be seen.

 

"Where is my new sailor hat?" he cried.

 

"Ho! ho! I know," laughed the wind, and it blew behind the barrel, and fluttered the ends of the blue ribbon till the little boy spied them.

 

"Hurrah⁵!" said he; and he ran to pick up the hat in a hurry.

 

"The wind shall not get my new hat again," he said; and he put it on his head and held it with both hands all the way home.

 

But as for the clothes on the clothes-line, and the leaves on the trees, and the bit of paper in the street, they danced on and on, till the wind blew away; and that is the end of the story.

1 scampered   

v.蹦蹦跳跳地跑，惊惶奔跑( scamper的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The cat scampered away. 猫刺棱一下跑了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• The rabbIt'scampered off. 兔子迅速跑掉了。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

2 tune   

n.调子；和谐，协调；v.调音，调节，调整

参考例句：

• He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子，并在钢琴上弹给我们听。
• The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。

3 hoop   

n.（篮球）篮圈，篮

参考例句：

• The child was rolling a hoop.那个孩子在滚铁环。
• The wooden tub is fitted with the iron hoop.木盆都用铁箍箍紧。

4 alley   

n.小巷，胡同；小径，小路

参考例句：

• We live in the same alley.我们住在同一条小巷里。
• The blind alley ended in a brick wall.这条死胡同的尽头是砖墙。

5 hurrah   

int.好哇，万岁，乌拉

参考例句：

• We hurrah when we see the soldiers go by.我们看到士兵经过时向他们欢呼。
• The assistants raised a formidable hurrah.助手们发出了一片震天的欢呼声。