Cherry Cox讲故事 18 Pepper's adventure

 

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　　Pepper¹'s adventure²
One day Dad came home with two pet mice in a little cage. Sarah loved them.
She called the brown one Pepper and the white one Salt.
Dad made a big new cage for Pepper and Salt. It had a wheel³ and a ladder and a room upstairs.
Sarah played with the mice a lot. And so did Nicky from next door. "Don't take them outside," said Mom.
But one day Nicky did take Pepper outside. "No! Don't do that!" said Sarah. "Bring Pepper back inside!" But Nicky put Pepper down on the grass to see if he liked it, and…
…Pepper ran away! He ran into a flower bed. "I'm sorry!" said Nicky. Nicky was sorry, but that did not bring Pepper back. Pepper had gone.
There are lots of hiding places in a garden for a little brown mouse. The children looked for Pepper but they did not find him.
"A cat may get him and eat him up!" said Sarah. Nicky went home crying.
"Let's put Pepper's little cage out in the garden," said Mom, "Maybe he will want to go back inside his old home."
Sarah put some food in the cage. "Pepper will be hungry," she said. Mom and Sarah put the cage down in the flowers. They opened the door, but Pepper did not come.
They had to go back to the house without him. Sarah went to tell Salt. "Pepper has gone," she said. But…
…at bedtime⁴ they looked again, and there, sitting inside his old cage,was Pepper! "Salt will be pleased." said Sarah and Salt was.

1 pepper   

n.胡椒(粉)；辣椒(粉)

参考例句：

• He put some pepper in the bowl.他放了一些胡椒粉在碗里。
• This pepper is really hot.这辣椒真够劲儿。

2 adventure   

n.冒险，冒险经历；vt.冒险；vi.冒险

参考例句：

• I wish to hear the details of your adventure.我希望听到你这次奇遇的详情。
• He couldn't explain that he had passed through a great adventure.他没法说明自己曾度过一次大险。

3 wheel   

n.轮子，周期；v.旋转，装以车轮，转动

参考例句：

• The wheel must be breaking.一定是轮子断了。
• Nobody could roll back the wheel of history.没有人能倒转历史的车轮。

4 bedtime   

n.就寝时间

参考例句：

• It's your bedtime. Go upstairs and go to bed.到睡觉的时间了，上楼去睡觉。
• If you go to bed now,I've read you a bedtime story.假使你现在就上床睡觉，我就念个睡前故事给你听。