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第一篇
Walrus Joins In
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What will Walrus do?
Everyone
at
the
North
Pole
was
very
excited.
There
was
going
to
be
a
show
and
ANYONE
could be in it.
‘I will do skating,’ said Arctic Fox.
‘I’m good at that!’
‘I’ll do tumbling,’ said
Polar Bear. ‘No one tumbles quite like
me!’
‘I’ll do singing,’ said Seal. ‘Everyone
says I have a very fine voice!’
‘Then I’ll do
diving,’ said Whale. ‘I won a prize for diving at
school, you know!’
They all looked at Walrus.
‘What will YOU do?’ they
asked.
But Walrus was
not good at anything.
He wasn’t good at skating, and he
wasn’t good at tumbling.
He was terrible at singing,
and when he tried to dive, he always got water up
his nose.
He
sat and chewed his whiskers sadly.
‘Never mind,’ said Arctic
Fox. ‘You can watch us.’
Arctic Fox and Polar Bear
and Seal and Whale practised hard for the big
show.
Walrus
hid behind a snowdrift and watched, and chewed his
whiskers.
He wished he was good at
something.
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The big night
At
last,
the
big
night
arrived.
Everyone
sat
down
and
waited
for
the
show
to
begin.
Walrus sat in the front row. He was
very excited.
Fox came onto the ice and bowed.
Everyone cheered.
Then Fox began to skate. Fox skated
forwards and backwards and sideways. She skated
in perfect circles and figures of
eight. She was elegant and amazing!
Walrus watched and he loved
what he saw. Fox made it all look so easy.
Walrus was sure
that if he really tried he could skate just like
Fox.
He
couldn’t stop himself. He just had to leap onto
the ice and join in with Fox. “I can
skate,” he cried. “Look at
me!”
But Walrus couldn’t skate at all. He
could only trip up and fall over.
He bumped into
Fox, and Fox went flat on her face. FLOMP!
Fox was very
upset. “Walrus has RUINED my act,” she
wailed.
Next, it was Polar Bear’s turn. He
rolled out across the ice like a big, white
snowball.
Everyone clapped wildly.
Then Polar Bear
began to tumble. He did jumps and spins and
somersaults, and stood
on his head.
Walrus watched
and he loved what he saw. Polar Bear made it all
look such fun. Walrus
was sure that
this time, if he really tried, he could tumble
just like Polar Bear.
All of a sudden, Walrus just couldn’t
stop himself, and he leaped onto the
ice.
“I can tumble too,” he
cried. “Look at me!”
But Walrus
couldn’t tumble at all. He could only trip up and
fall over. He tripped up
Polar Bear,
who came down with a WALLOP!
Of course, Polar Bear was
pretty angry. “Walrus has RUINED my act,” he
wailed.
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From bad to worse
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