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托尼听说在临近的山谷新开办了一所学校。他从来没有去过学校，很想知道学校到底是什么样子。一大早托尼就出发，步行二十英里去看个究竟。 托尼发现自己很喜欢学校。他发现若把腿伸得比平时更长些，步子就能迈得更大些。路上，托尼发现他的一步大约有四分之一英里长，再加上他走了几条捷径，很快就到了学校。 —天，托尼正急匆匆地赶往学校，这时他看见两头大山狮——他称之为美洲狮——分别站在路的两边。托尼心想："它们要找麻烦，我可不要成为它们的目标。”于是,他心生一计，大喊道：“咬死它！咬死它！” 这两头狮子立即扑向对方扭打起来，而且跳得越来越高。很快它们跳得跟托尼一样高了。 “咬死它！咬死它！”托尼继续喊道。 这时两头美洲獅跳得更高了，和树一样高，而且扭打得更凶猛了。 放学后，托尼仍然走原路,他锐利的眼睛找寻着那两头美洲狮。托尼没有看到它们，但是当他走近最后看见两头狮子的地方，天空开始飘下片片兽毛。“真是奇怪，这是从哪里来的？"托尼心里想着。 托尼环顾四周，看见一朵轻云，兽毛好像从那里飘落下来的。"天呀！美洲狮居然跳到那么高，落在云朵上去了！”他大喊道。 这就是所发生的一切，也是西弗吉尼亚飘落兽毛的原因。 How It Snowed Fur in Western Virginia? One day Tony heard that a school had been started over in the next valley. Never having been in a school, Tony was anxious to see what it looked like. Early one morning he set out to walk the twenty miles to take a look. Tony found he liked the school right well. He found that by stretching his legs a little more than usual, he could soon take some mighty big steps. Before he was through, he could take a step of almost a quarter of a mile. Along with finding a few short cuts, Tony was able to get to school in jig time. One day when he was moseying to school, he saw two big mountain lions—he called them painters—one on each side of the path. “They’ll be looking for trouble and I don’t want to be it.” Tony thought. Then he had an idea. “Sic ’em! Sic ’em!” he cried. Immediately the two big cats flew at each other. As they tussled they kept jumping higher and higher. Soon they were jumping as high as Tony's head. “Sic ’em! Sic ’em!” Tony yelled again. This time the two painters jumped as high as the trees and fought harder than ever. After school Tony used the same path, keeping a sharp eye out for the painters. They were not to be seen but as he drew near the place where he had seen them last, bits of fur began to float down from the sky. “That’s strange,” thought Tony, “where can this be coming from?" Tony looked all around and then saw a fleecy cloud from which the fur seemed to be coming. “Why，those painters have jumped so high that they landed in the clouds. ” he cried. And that’s exactly what happened. And that's the reason it snowed fur in western Virginia. |
