标题: 6月1日英语故事:The Thief and His Mother [打印本页] 作者: 星期一 时间: 2010-6-1 13:00 标题: 6月1日英语故事:The Thief and His Mother
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A BOY stole a lesson-book from one of his school fellows and took ithome to his Mother. She not only abstained from beating him, but encouraged him. He next time stole a cloak and brought it to her, and she again commended him.
The Youth, advanced to adulthood, proceeded to steal things of still greater value. At last he was caught in the very act, and having his hands bound behind him, was led away to the place of public execution.
His Mother followed in the crowd and violently beat her breast insorrow, where upon the young man said, "I wish to say something to my Mother in her ear." She came close to him, and he quickly seized herear with his teeth and bit it off. The Mother upbraided him as an unnatural child, where on he replied, "Ah! If you had beaten me when I first stole and brought to you that lesson-book, I should not have come to this, nor have been thus led to a disgraceful death."