散文：忠诚的朋友Part 7

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  "Then you are quite behind the age," said the Water-rat. "Every good story-teller nowadays starts with the end, and then goes on to the beginning, and concludes with the middle. That is the new method. I heard all about it the other day from a critic who was walking round the pond with a young man. He spoke¹ of the matter at great length, and I am sure he must have been right, for he had blue spectacles and a bald head, and whenever the young man made any remark, he always answered 'Pooh!' But pray go on with your story. I like the Miller² immensely. I have all kinds of beautiful sentiments myself, so there is a great sympathy between us."

  "Well," said the Linnet, hopping³ now on one leg and now on the other, "as soon as the winter was over, and the primroses⁴ began to open their pale yellow stars, the Miller said to his wife that he would go down and see little Hans.

  "'Why, what a good heart you have'! cried his Wife; 'you are always thinking of others. And mind you take the big basket with you for the flowers.'

  "So the Miller tied the sails of the windmill together with a strong iron chain, and went down the hill with the basket on his arm.

 

 

【词汇简析】

spectacle n. 眼镜

bald adj. 秃的

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