The Autumn leaves are falling
Along the Woodland ways,
These cool November days.
They whisper in the lane,
Or from the shivering half-clad trees
They sing a sad refrain.
But Mrs. Rabbit was too busy putting up carrot preserves and lettuce4 pickles5 to even listen. All the little people of the Shady Forest and Sunny Meadow were getting ready for Winter.
The little feathered people were pruning6 their wings for a long flight to the warm Southland, and the four-footed folk were gathering7 nuts and grain for their storehouses.
The Squirrel Brothers had a bushel of nuts, and maybe more, laid away carefully in the old chestnut8 tree, and Chippy Chipmunk9 had filled his underground storeroom with nuts and corn.
Granddaddy Bullfrog was almost ready to dive into the Old Duck Pond to hide in the soft warm mud. Teddy Turtle, too, would soon find for himself a nice warm spot on the mud bottom of the mill pond before Jack Frost touched the water with his icy fingers.
And Mr. John Hare had telephoned to the Old Red Rooster to come over and put up Mrs. Rabbit’s storm-door and bank the cellar windows with dry leaves.
“Mother,” said Little Jack Rabbit, as he polished the brass10 doorknob, “I guess Jack Frost will soon be around.”
“Shouldn’t wonder,” she replied, “but who’s afraid of Jack Frost? Danny Fox and Mr. Wicked Weasel, to say nothing of Hungry Hawk11, are more to be feared.” And that good lady rabbit began her ironing, for it was Tuesday, the day when all Rabbitville irons Monday’s wash, I’m told.
Just then Bobbie Redvest began to sing:
The summer time is over,
And all the golden hours,
The little birds have left their nests
And now are strong of wing,
They will not build themselves a home
Until the lovely spring,
But fly away to Southern lands,
They cannot brave the winter wind,
The snow drifts in the lane.
Will safely hide away,
And sleep until the winter’s past
And Spring has come to stay.
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1 jack | |
n.插座,千斤顶,男人;v.抬起,提醒,扛举;n.(Jake)杰克 | |
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2 scarlet | |
n.深红色,绯红色,红衣;adj.绯红色的 | |
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3 rustle | |
v.沙沙作响;偷盗(牛、马等);n.沙沙声声 | |
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4 lettuce | |
n.莴苣;生菜 | |
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5 pickles | |
n.腌菜( pickle的名词复数 );处于困境;遇到麻烦;菜酱 | |
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6 pruning | |
n.修枝,剪枝,修剪v.修剪(树木等)( prune的现在分词 );精简某事物,除去某事物多余的部分 | |
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7 gathering | |
n.集会,聚会,聚集 | |
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8 chestnut | |
n.栗树,栗子 | |
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9 chipmunk | |
n.花栗鼠 | |
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10 brass | |
n.黄铜;黄铜器,铜管乐器 | |
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11 hawk | |
n.鹰,骗子;鹰派成员 | |
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12 crimson | |
n./adj.深(绯)红色(的);vi.脸变绯红色 | |
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n.(女子的)卧室( bower的名词复数 );船首锚;阴凉处;鞠躬的人 | |
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adj.毛皮的;似毛皮的;毛皮制的 | |
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