365个英语简短小故事- 3. The Yardman

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The yardman comes every two weeks. He drives a gray pickup¹ truck. The truck is a Ford². It is about 15 years old, but it runs well. It doesn’t burn oil, and it gets decent gas mileage³. The yardman’s name is Byron.

In the back of his truck are a lawn mower⁴, a leaf blower, a rake, and a shovel⁵. Byron uses the leaf blower to blow leaves and dirt from the back of the building out to the front of the building. Then he rakes up the leaves into a bag. He blows the dirt out into the street. He cuts the lawn with his lawn mower. He trims the hedge. He uses the leaf blower to blow the dirt off each Welcome mat that lies in front of each apartment door.

Then he puts all the leaves, the grass trimmings, and the hedge clippings into a wheelbarrow. He pushes the wheelbarrow to the back of the building, where he uses his big shovel to empty the wheelbarrow contents into the big dumpster. It takes Byron about two hours to do this work.

When he is done, he goes half a block up the street to the house on the corner. There he does the same work again.