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X. The Baby-Tooth39
When I was a little girl and my little sister was a very little girl, we had an apple-tree behind our house. We liked to pick apples and eat them.
One day my little sister picked a very big green apple. When she began to eat it, one of her little teeth got loose40. My little sister began to cry.
"Don't cry," said my mother. "It's a baby-tooth. All your little baby-teeth will get loose and new teeth will grow."
My little sister liked to show her tooth to everybody. She showed it to the postman and to her friend the shoe-mender.
"Come," said my mother. "I'll pull it out41."
"No, no! Don't pull it out!" said my naughty little sister. "I like my tooth."
Then the shoe-mender said, "You must show it to the doctor. The doctor likes to see nice baby-teeth."
"I want to go to the doctor," said my naughty little sister to my mother. "I want to show him my baby-tooth. He likes to see nice baby-teeth."
"All right!42" said my mother.
So my little sister went to the doctor. She showed her tooth to the people who were there. Everybody liked her little tooth.
"You have a very nice tooth," said the doctor. "I collect nice teeth. Can you give me your tooth? I want to show it to the people who come to me."
And do you know what my little sister did? She pulled out her tooth and gave it to the doctor.
"Here it is," she said. "You may take it. You can show it to the people who come to you."
She was a fu
XI My Naughty Little Sister Goes to the Theatre
Once when my little sister was four, our mother took us to the theatre.
The theatre was very beautiful. My sister and I liked it very much.
When we were in the theatre, my little sister did not talk. She looked at the curtain and at the beautiful walls and the big lamps over our heads.
She looked at the boys and girls and at their mothers and fathers. But when the curtain went up43 and a little fu
"How do you do, little boys and girls?"
"How do you do?" we all said.
But my little sister cried:
"Hullo, Humpty-Dumpty!"
Everybody laughed, and Humpty-Dumpty said:
"Hullo, little girl!"
Then beautiful dolls came out and danced. They had very beautiful dresses on, all white and blue.
Humpty-Dumpty began to dance, too, but he fell on the floor.
And then Humpty-Dumpty said:
"Who wants to dance with me?"
You know that my little sister was very naughty, don't you?45
Do you know what she did?
She ran to Humpty-Dumpty and said:
"I want to dance with you."
Everybody laughed. Humpty-Dumpty laughed, too. The other children ran to him, too, and they all began to dance.
"Now, children," he said, "go to you seats."
All the children went to their seats, but my little sister did not go to her seat.
Do you know why she did not go to her seat?
She ran away. Yes, she ran away. She wanted to see the dolls behind the curtain. She found the dolls. The beautiful dolls talked to my sister, and they gave her an ice.
Humpty-Dumpty found my little sister and took her to our mother. Everybody laughed, but my mother was very angry.
Do you know what my naughty little sister did then?
She jumped up on her seat and cried:
"I saw them. I saw the dolls. They are not dolls. They eat ices. They are little girls!"
My little sister was a very naughty girl, wasn't she?
XII. My Naughty Little Sister and a Good Girl
When I was a little girl, my mother said to my little sister:
"One of my friends will come to see us today, and her little daughter will come with her. The little girl's name is Wi
My little sister put on her new blue dress and blue socks and white shoes. She took all her toys into the garden. She took her big doll out of the box. She wanted to play with Wi
"I want to play with Wi
"Blue socks, too."
Wi
"How do you do?"
She was a very good girl, wasn't she?
My mother and Wi
"Do you like my doll?" asked my little sister. But Wi
"Can you talk?" asked my little sister.
"Yes, I can," answered Wi
"Do you want to play with my toys?" asked my sister.
"No, thank you," said Wi
"Do you want to run?" asked my sister.
"No, thank you. It is too hot," said Wi
"Do you want to play hide-and-seek?" asked my sister.
"No, thank you. I don't like hide-and-seek," said Wi
"Do you want to pick apples?" asked my little sister.
"No, I don't like to pick apples," said Wi
"What do you want to do?" asked my little sister.
"I want to read a book," said Wi
Wi
Wi
My mother put a big cake on the table. She said to Wi
"Have some cake, Wi
"Thank you," said Wi
But my naughty little sister took a very big piece of cake. She liked cake very much.
After tea Wi
"Thank you. Good-bye."
When they went away, my naughty little sister said to my mother:
"I don't want to be a good girl."
"Why don't you want to be a good girl?" asked my mother.
"I like cake very much."
She was a fu
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got loose [lu:s]- зашатался
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pull it out. - Я его (зуб) вытащу.
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All right! - Хорошо!
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the curtain went up - занавес поднялся
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Humpty-Dumpty - Шалтай-Болтай (герой детских стишков; он очень неуклюж и постоянно падает)
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don't you?-не так ли?