Story 29 A Boy and a Monkey（一个男孩和一只猴子）

Mike is a little boy. He is only five years old. — 迈克是一个小男孩。他只有五岁。 —

He is too small to go to school. — 他太小了，不能上学。 —

So he can not read and write. 所以他不会读写。

One day he stood at my desk with a pencil in his h and . — 有一天，他站在我的桌子前，手里拿着一支铅笔。 —

There was a big piece of paper on the desk. — 桌子上有一大张纸。 —

He wanted to draw a picture of himself. — 他想画一幅自己的画像。 —

He drew lines and cleared them out, then drew more and cleared them out again. — 他画了线条，又擦掉，然后又画了更多，再擦掉。 —

When I looked at the picture, he wasn’t happy. — 当我看着那幅画时，他不高兴了。 —

“Well,” he said at last to me, “I’ll put a tail on it and make it a monkey.” “好吧，”他最后对我说，“我会加个尾巴，把它变成一只猴子。”

He began to add the tail. I began to laugh 他开始加上尾巴。我开始笑了。