Памела Трэверс – Mary Poppins / Мэри Поппинс. Книга для чтения на английском языке (страница 6)

But the common dog came up to the gate and sat down on the ground. He scratched his right ear with his left leg41 and yawned.

“Go away! Go home! Shoo!” said Miss Lark again in an angry voice. “And you, Andrew, go home this minute! For shame!42 Went into the street alone, and without your overcoat! I am angry with you.”

Andrew barked, but did not move.

“Do you understand, Andrew?’’ said Miss Lark. “Go home at once!”

Andrew barked again.

“He says,” said Mary Poppins, “that he won’t go home.”

Miss Lark turned and looked at her in great surprise.

“How do you know what my dog says, may I ask,” she said. “Of course, he will go home.”

Andrew shook his head43 and barked.

“He won’t,” said Mary Poppins. “He will go home only if his friend goes, too.”

“Nonsense!” said Miss Lark. “This terrible dog will never go into my garden.”

Andrew barked two or three times.

“He says he is quite serious,” said Mary Poppins. “And he says that if you don’t allow his friend to go into your house and live with him, he will go away and live with his friend.”

“Oh, Andrew, you can’t – you can’t, really! After all that I have done for you!’’ Miss Lark was ready to cry.

Andrew barked and turned away. The other dog got up.

“Oh, he is really going away!” cried Miss Lark. “I see it!” She cried a little into her handkerchief, then she said:

“All right, Andrew. It will be as you say. This – this common dog can stay with us. But of course, he will sleep in the coal-cellar.”

Andrew barked again.

“He says, madam,” said Mary Poppins, “that he does not agree. His friend must have a silk cushion and sleep in you room, too. Or Andrew himself will sleep in the coal-cellar with his friend.”

“Andrew, how can you?” cried Miss Lark. “I shall never agree to it.”

Andrew got up and prepared to go.

“Oh, he is leaving me!” cried Miss Lark. “All right, Andrew, very well. It will be as you wish. Oh, what a terrible dog! Oh, how can you, Andrew? What is he saying now?” she asked Mary Poppins, because Andrew was barking again.

“He says that he will never wear overcoats or boots – that is his last word,” said Mary Poppins.

“All right. Let’s go,” said Miss Lark with tears in her eyes. And she and the dogs went into the house.

“So you see, he isn’t stupid at all44,” said Jane, when they were going upstairs to Tea.

“Yes,” said Michael, “that’s right. He isn’t stupid. But how did Mary Poppins know it? What do you think?”

“I don’t know,” said Jane. “And I think she will never, never tell us…”

1. Practice the pronunciation of the following words.

2. Agree or disagree.

1. The house was very big and beautiful, and in the garden Miss Lark had two gates.

2. Andrew was a little boy.

3. People did not like Andrew and laughed at him.

4. When Miss Lark bought him two pairs of small boots, people went and bought boots for their dogs, too.

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