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一叶之秋。 空心麦子

  于是来乱晃晃了……对吧0v0《……
  This is a story about  
  an old, very old woman who lived alone in her little hut with no other company   小荷作文网 www.zww.cn
  than a beautiful pear tree that grew at her door. She spent all her time taking  
  care of her pear tree. But the neighborhood children drove the old woman crazy  
  by stealing her fruit. They would climb her tree, shake its delicate limbs, and  
  run away with armloads of golden pears, yelling insults at "Aunty  
  Misery," as they called her.  
  One day a pilgrim stopped at the  
  old woman's hut and asked her permission to spend the night under her roof.  
  Aunty Misery saw that he had an honest face and bade the traveler come in. She  
  fed him and made a bed for him in front of her hearth. In the morning, while he  
  was getting ready to leave, the stranger told her that he would show his  
  gratitude for her hospitality by granting her one wish.  
  "There is only one thing  
  that I desire," said Aunty Misery.  
  "Ask and it shall be  
  yours," replied the stranger, who was a sorcerer in disguise.  
  "I wish that anyone who  
  climbs up my pear tree should not be able to come back down until I permit  
  it."  
  "Your wish is granted,"  
  said the stranger, touching the pear tree as he left Aunty Misery's house.  
  And so it happened that when the  
  children came back to taunt the old woman and to steal her fruit, she stood at  
  her window watching them. Several of them shimmied up the trunk of the pear  
  tree and immediately got stuck to it as if with glue. She let them cry and beg for  
  a long time before she gave the tree permission to let them go, on the  
  condition that they would never steal her fruit or bother her.  
  Time passed, and both Aunty  
  Misery and her tree grew bent and gnarled with age. One day another traveler  
  stopped at her door. This one looked suffocated and exhausted, so the old woman  
  asked him what he wanted in her village. He answered her in a voice that was  
  dry and hoarse, as if he had swallowed a desert. "I am Death, and I have  
  come to take you with me."  
  Thinking fast, Aunty Misery said,  
  "All right, but before I go, I would like to pluck some pears from my  
  beloved pear tree, to remember how much pleasure it brought to me in this life.  
  But, I am a very old woman and cannot climb to the tallest branches where the  
  best fruit is; will you be so kind as to do it for me?"  
  With a heavy sigh like wind  
  through a catacomb, Death climbed the pear tree. Immediately he became stuck to  
  it as if with glue. And no matter how much he cursed and threatened, Aunty  
  Misery would not give the tree permission to release Death.  
  Many years passed, and there were  
  no deaths in the world. The people who make their living from death began to  
  protest loudly. The doctors claimed no one bothered to come in for examinations  
  or treatments anymore because they did not fear dying; the pharmacists'  
  business suffered, too, because medicines are, like magic potions, bought to  
  prevent or postpone the inevitable; the priests and undertakers were unhappy  
  with the situation also, for obvious reasons. There were also many old folks  
  tired of life who wanted to pass on to the next world to rest from the miseries  
  of this one.  
  Aunty Misery realized all this,  
  and not wishing to be unfair, she made a deal with her prisoner, Death: if he  
  promised not ever to come for her again, she would give him his freedom. He  
  agreed. And that is why so long as the world is the world, Aunty Misery will  
  always live.
 
 
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