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Read the passage and predict the end of the story.






The door of Henry’s lunch-room opened and two men came in. They sat down at the counter.

“What’s yours? ” George asked them.

“I don’t know, ” one of the men said. “What do you want to eat, Al? ”

“I don’t know, ’ said Al. “I don’t know I want to eat.”

Outside it was getting dark. The street-light came on outside the window. The two men at the counter read the menu.

From the other end of the counter Nick Adams watched them. He had been talking to George when they came in.

“I’ll have a roast pork with apple sauce and mashed potatoes, ” the first man said.

“It isn’t ready yet.”

“What the hell do you put it on the card for? ”

“That’s the dinner, ” George explained. “You can get that at six o’clock.”

George looked at the clock on the wall behind the counter.

“It’s five o’clock.”

“The clock says twenty minutes past five, ” the second man said.

“It’s twenty minutes fast.”

“Oh, to hell with the clock, ” the first man said. “What have you got to eat? ”

“I can give you any kind of sandwiches, ” George said.

“ You can have ham and eggs, bacon and eggs, liver and bacon, or a steak.”

“Give me chicken croquettes with green past and cream sauce and mashed potatoes.”

“That’s the dinner.”

“Every thing we want’s the dinner, eh? ”

“I can give you ham and eggs, bacon and eggs.”

“I’ll take ham and eggs, ” the man called Al said. He wore a derby hat and the black overcoat buttoned across the chest. His face was small and white and he had tight lips. He wore a silk muffler and gloves.

“Give me bacon and eggs, ” said the other man. He was about the same size as Al. Their faces were different, but they were dressed like twins. Both wore overcoats too high for them. They sat learning forward, their elbows on the counter.

George put the two platters, one of ham and eggs, the other of bacon and eggs, on the counter. He sat down two side-dishes of fried potatoes and closed the wicket into the kitchen.

“Which is yours? ” he asked Al.

“Don’t you remember? ”

” Ham and eggs.”

He leaned forward and took the ham and eggs. Both ate with their gloves on. George watched them eat.

 

Text 26 A Week’s Voyage Round the Coast.

Read the text and answer the questions:

- Have you ever traveled by sea? Share your impressions.

- Do you suffer seasick?

- What would you feel if you were this young man?

A young man went for a week’s voyage round the coast, and before they stated, the steward came to him to ask whether he would pay for each meal as he had it, or for all the meals be – forehand.

The steward recommended the latter course, as it would be so much cheaper. He said he would have to pay two-pounds-five for the whole week. He said for breakfast there would be fish. Lunch was at one, and consisted of four courses. Dinner at six: soup, fish, poultry, salad, sweets, cheese, and dessert. And a light meat supper at ten.

The young men decided to pay two-pounds-five (he was a hearty eater), and did so.

Lunch came. He didn’t feel so hungry as he thought he should, and so he ate a bit of boiled beef, and some strawberries and cream. He thought a good deal during the afternoon, and at one time it seemed to him that he had better been eating nothing but boiled beef for weeks, and at other times it seemed to him that he had lived on strawberries and cream for years.

At six, they came and told him that dinner was ready. The announcement aroused no enthusiasm within him, but he felt that there was some of that to-pounds-five to be worked off, and he help on to ropes and things and went down. A pleasant smell of onion and hot ham, mixed up with fried fish and greens, greeted him at the bottom of the ladder. Them the steward came up with an oily smile, and said:

“What can I get for you, sir? ”

“Get me out of this”, was the reply.

And they ran him up quick, and propped him up, over to leeward, and left him.

For the next four days he lived a simple and blameless life on thin captain’s biscuits (I mean that the biscuits were thin, not the captain) and soda-water: but, towards Saturday he went in for tea and dry toast, and on Monday he ate chicken broth. He left the ship on Tuesday, and as it steamed away from the landing-stage he gazed after it regretfully.

“There she goes”, he said, “there she goes, with two pounds worth of food on board that belongs to me and I haven’t had”.






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