【英文读物】Wings and Stings
34页1、【英文读物】Wings and StingsPreface. HAT is the use of a preface? Most of my young readers will regard it as they would a stile in front of a field in which they were going to enjoy haymaking; as something which they hastily scramble over, eager to get to what is beyond. Such being the case, I think it best to make my preface as short, my stile as small as possible, not being offended if some of my friends should skip over it at one bound. To the more sober readers I would say, If you look for some fu
2、n in the little field which you are going to enter, remember that in haymakingvi there is profit as well as amusement; in turning over thoughts in our minds, as in turning over newly-mown grass, we may “make hay while the sun shines,” which will serve us when cloudier days arise.A. L. O. E.CHAPTER I. THE BIG HIVE AND THE LITTLE ONE. AD you not better go on a little faster with your work, Polly?” said Minnie Wingfield, glancing up for a minute from her own, over which her little fingers had been
3、busily moving, and from which she now for the first time raised her eyes.“I wish that there were no such thing as work!” exclaimed Polly, from her favourite seat by the school-room window, through which she had been watching the bees10 thronging in and out of their hive, some flying away to seek honied treasure, some returning laden with it to their home.“I think that work makes one enjoy play more,” replied Minnie, her soft voice scarcely heard amidst the confusion of sounds which filled the sc
4、hool-room; for there was a spelling-class answering questions at the moment, and the hum of voices from the boys school-room, which adjoined that of the girls, added not a little to the noise.The house might itself be regarded as a hive, its rosy-cheeked scholars as a little swarm of bees, and knowledge as the honey of which they were in search, drawn, not from flowers, but from the leaves of certain dogs-eared books, which had few charms for the eyes of Polly Bright.“I never have any play,” sai
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