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【正文】 ree would soon e along and make fun of him. Just then , he had an idea. He picked up his brush and went back to work .Ben Rogers came along the road. He was singing happily and carrying an apple.“I’m going swimming,” said Ben. “Do you want to e? Oh, you have to work, don’t you? What a pity!”“Work?” said Tom. “This isn’t work. I’m enjoying myself. Does a boy get a chance to paint a fence like this everyday?” Then he went on painting.Ben watched Tom in silence. He became more and more interested. After a while, he said, “Tom, will you let me do some painting?”Tom said, “no, Ben ,I can’t. Aunt Poll warned me to do it well. I’m the only person that can do it right.”“oh, please, Tom,” said Ben. “I can do it. I’ll be really careful. I’ll give you half my apple. Wait, I’ll give you all of it.”“That’s a deal,” said Tom. “But you must be careful.”Tom gave Ben his brush with worry on his face but joy in his heart. He sat down again and started to eat the apple.When Ben got tired, Billy Fisher was waiting. He gave Tom a kite for the chance to paint. Then Johnny Miller offered him two toy soldiers.Soon Tom had got many new toys, and the fence got three coats of paint. Aunt Polly was so pleased that she gave Tom a big apple! Unit 8 Surprise endingsThe giftOne dollar and eightyseven cents. That was all. Three times Della counted it. One dollar and eightyseven cents. And the next day would be Christmas. She could not afford a present, so she sat down and cried.Jim and Della had two possessions which they were both proud of. One was Jim’s gold watch that was from his father and his grandfather. The other was Della’s beautiful hair. It fell about her, and reached below he knee.Della put on her old brown jacket and her old brown hat. Then she went out of the door and down the stairs to the street.She stopped at a store. The sign in front of the store read “Hair Goods”.“Will you buy my hair?” asked Della. “Twenty dollars,” the woman said.Then Della searched through the stores looking for a present for Jim.She found it at last. It was a watch chain. The bill was twentyone dollars.At seven o’clock, the coffee was made and dinner was ready.Jim was never late. Della heard his steps on the stairs.The door opened and Jim walked in. He stopped inside the door. His eyes were fixed on Della, and there was an expression in them that she could not read.“Jim.” She cried, “don’t look at me that way. I sold my hair to buy you a Christmas present.”Jim drew a box from his pocket and put it on the table.Della opened it. There lay the set of bs that she had always wanted. Now they were hers, but her hair was gone.She smiled and held out Jim’s present. “I hunted all over town to find it. Give me your watch. I want to see how it looks on it.”Instead of obeying, Jim sat down, put his hands behind his head and smiled.“Della,” he said, “I sold the watch to get the money to buy your bs.”
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