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, a printer named Thomas Fleet, was supposed to have published the famous stories and poems for small children in , no copy of this book has ever been found, and most scholars doubt the truth of this story—and doubt, moreover, that Mother Goose was ever a real point out that the name is a direct translation of the French “Mere I’ Oye.” In 1697 the Frenchman Charles Perrault published the first book in which this name was collection contains eight tales, including “Sleeping Beauty,” “Cinderella,” and “Puss in Boots.” But Perrault did not originate these stories。they rely on depositors(儲(chǔ)戶)not to demand payment all at the same depositors should e to fear that a bank is not safe, that it cannot pay off all its depositors, then that fear might cause all the depositors to appear on the same they did, the bank could not pay all , if they did not all appear at once, then there would always be enough money to pay those who wanted their money when they wanted Vaught has told us of a terrifying bank run that she day in December of 1925 several banks failed to open in a city where other banks expected a run the next day, and so the officers of the bank in which Mrs Vaught worked as a teller had enough money on hand to pay off their officers simply told the tellers to pay on next morning a crowd gathered in the bank and on the sidewalk length of the line made many think that the bank could not possibly pay off began to push and then to fight for places near the tellers’ windows, The power of the panic atmosphere was such that two tellers, though they knew that the bank was quite all right and could pay all depositors, drew their own money from the Vaught says that she had difficulty keeping herself from doing the bank run happens when bank is closed for one or more daystoo many depositors try to draw out their money at one timethere is not enough money to pay all its depositors at one timetellers of a bank take their own money from the bank tellers in ’s bank were told to why they could not pay out all accountspay out accounts as requestedmake the depositors believe that the bank was standpay out money as slowly as possible main cause of a bank run is of confidence of money of people tellers of the following did say?She know that the bank was not feared that too many depositors drawing their money would close the was not able to draw out her was tempted to draw out her to the passage, the actions of the depositors of ’s bank were affected mainly by the with which they could get their moneyconfidence that showedfailure of several other banks to openconfidence shown by other depositors of the bankPassage FourOne of the greatest problems for those settlers in Nebraska in the last quarter of the previous century was of the state was forested when the first settlers arrived and it is probable that by 1880, only about onethird of the originally forested area remained, down to a mere 1 percent of the state’s 77,000 square wood and coal out of the question, and with fuel needed yearround for cooking, and during the harsh winter months for heating, some solution had to be improbably, the buffalo provided the chips(干糞塊)were found to burn evenly, hotly, and cleanly, with little smoke and interestingly, no odor, Soon, collecting them became a way of life for the settlers’ children who would pick them up on their way to and from school, or take part in petitions designed to counteract their natural a young man, seeking to impress the girl he wanted to marry, would arrive with a large bag of chips rather than with a box of candy or a bunch of is the main topic of this passage?The solution to the Nebraska settlers’ fuel in Nebraska in the late ninteenth imporance of the American in Nebraska in the late nineteenth of the following statements is NOT true?Nebraska was not a denselyforested state even before the settlers children enjoyed collecting the buffalo children spent a lot of time collecting the chips were satisfactory as a passage implies that buffalo chips were needed greater amounts in summer greater amounts in winter in summer in winter of the following does the author not express surprise at?The children needed petitions to buffalo chips gave off no chips were the answer to the settlers’ fuel men took bags of buffalo chips to their girl ’s the best title of the passage? 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