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I POLLY PEPPER’S CHICKEN PIE
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TO begin with, it was the most remarkable1 chicken that was to have made the famous pie for Thanksgiving. But alas2! A sad mishap3 befell the Pepper family.
In the first place none of the family ever knew where it came from. Ebenezer, or Ben, as he was usually called, found it one day in a swamp, down by the meadow as he was digging sweet-flag to sell, in order to get some money to buy a pair of boots for the coming winter. It was not hurt, only it couldn’t get out. The wonder is, how it ever got there. However, Ben didn’t stop to think of that; he must set to work to get Master Chick out. So, forgetting flag-root in his eagerness, he took an old fence rail, and by dint4 of poking5 and urging it, and tumbling around in the bog6 till he was pretty wet himself, he at last had the satisfaction of obtaining his prize.
[2]It proved to be a fine black chicken, a shanghai, and grasping it tightly under one arm, its eyes protruding7 with fright, Ben flew home, and bursting into the door of the Little Brown House, astonished them all by thrusting the long-legged black fowl8 before their faces, nearly upsetting Polly as he did so, who was helping9 her mother pull out the basting-threads of the coat Mrs. Pepper had just finished on the edge of the twilight10.
The chicken gave a shrill11 scream, and this was the first introduction to its future home.
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n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的 | |
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n.呻吟,叹息( groan的名词复数 );呻吟般的声音v.呻吟( groan的第三人称单数 );发牢骚;抱怨;受苦 | |
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痛哭,哭声( wail的名词复数 ) | |
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jealousy
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amazement
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fowls
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