karina小学英语 英语故事(童话故事)The Days Ofthe Week 一个星期的日子

2021年1月15日发(作者：霍秉权)
The Days Ofthe Week 一个星期的日子
The days of the week once wanted to be free to get together and have a party. But
each of the seven days was so occupied, the year around, that they had no time to
spare. They wanted a whole extra day; but then they had that every four years, the
intercalary day that comes in February for the purpose of keeping order in
chronology.
On the intercalary day they would get together for a party, and, as February is the
month of carnivals, they would come in costumes of each one's taste and choice; they
would eat well, drink well, make speeches, and be complimentary and disagreeable
to one another in unrestrained comradeship. While the vikings of olden times used
to throw their gnawed-off bones at each other's heads during mealtime, the days of
the week intended to throw jokes and sarcastic witticisms such as might be in keeping
with the innocent carnival spirit.
So when it was intercalary day, they assembled.
Sunday, foreman of the days of the week, appeared in a black silk cloak; pious people
thought he was dressed for church in a minister's gown, but the worldly minded saw
that he was attired in a domino for merriment and that the flashing carnation he
wore in his buttonhole was a little red theater lantern on which it said, sold
our; see now that you enjoy yourselves!
Monday, a young fellow related to Sunday, and very fond of pleasures, came next.
He left his workshop, he said, whenever he heard the music of the parade of the guard.

heart; it tickles my leg muscles; I must dance, have a few drinks, get a black eye,
sleep it off, and then the next day go to work. I am the new part of the week!
Tuesday is Tyr's day, the day of strength.

wings onto the merchant's boots, see that the wheels in the factory are oiled and
turning, that the tailor sits at his table, and that the street paver is by his paving
stones; each attends to his business, for I keep my eye on all. Accordingly, I am
here in a police uniform and call myself Tuesday, a well-used day! If this is a bad
joke, then you others try to think of a better one!

Herr Mittwoch. I stand like a journeyman in a store and like a flower in the midst
of the other esteemed days of the week! If we all march up in order, then I have
three days before me and three days behind; they are like an honor guard, so I should
think that I am the most prominent day in the week!
Thursday appeared dressed as a coppersmith, with a hammer and a copper kettle, as
a symbol of his noble descent.
am of the highest birth,he said, godlike! In the Northern countries
I am named after Thor, and in the Southern countries after Jupiter, who both knew
how to thunder and lighten, and that has remained in the family!
And then he beat his copper kettle, thereby proving his high birth.