Maii Nox
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Ocak 2022 tarihinde katıldı
It was an unhappy truth, he told himself, that nearly all people in the world behave badly when there is something really big at stake. Money is the thing they fight over most.
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Ters köşeleri seviyorsan, seni sonuna kadar merakta bırakacak 3 kitap önerisini keşfetmeye hazır ol!
It soon began to dawn on me
He wasn't very bright,
Because when he was twenty-three
He couldn't read or write.
"What shall we do?" his parents sobbed.
"The boy has got the vapours!
He couldn't even get a job
Delivering the papers!"
"Ah-ha," I said. "This little clot
Could be a politician."
"This is the Gilligrass Patent Fly-Trap!" They all crowded round to look.
"The fly climbs up the ladder on the left," said the President. "He walks along the plank. He stops. He sniffs. He smells something good.
He peers over the edge and sees the sugar-lump. 'Ah-ha!' he cries.
'Sugar!' He is just about to climb down the string to reach it when he sees the basin of water below. 'Ho-ho!' he says. 'It's a trap! They want me to fall in!' So he walks on, thinking what a clever fly he is.
But as you see, I have left out one of the rungs in the ladder he goes down by, so he falls and breaks his neck."
"What if they come after us?" said Mr Bucket, speaking for the first time.
"What if they capture us?" said Mrs Bucket.
"What if they shoot us?" said Grandma Georgina.
"What if my beard were made of green spinach?" cried Mr Wonka.
"Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said "What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates?
What if I never come back?" He wouldn't even have started.
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
