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READING FUN!
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THE MAN WHO DIDN’T WASH HIS DISHES
(after Phyllis Krasilovsky) There once was a man who lived alone in a little house in a small town. He always cooked his own dinner, cleaned the house by himself and made his own bed. One night he came home feeling very hungry, so he made a big dinner. He ate too much and was very tired after finishing. He decided to leave the dishes till the next night. But the next night he was TWICE1 as hungry, so he cooked TWICE as big of a dinner, and it took TWICE as long to eat it, and he was TWICE as tired as he had been the day before. As the days passed by, he got hungrier and more tired, and there were so MANY dirty dishes that he started to pile them on the table. As soon as the table was full he started to put them on his bookshelves. As soon as THEY were full, started piling them on the floor for several days and soon he couldn’t get into his house! One night he looked in his cupboard and found out2 that there wasn’t any clean dish there. Soon he used up all his ashtrays3 and clean flowerpots, and his sweets dishes, and drank water from vases. He used up EVERYTHING, even the pots he cooked his food in, and the frying pan, and the kettle, and he didn’t know what to do! He was SO unhappy. His whole house was full of dirty dishes, and dirty flowerpots, and dirty ashtrays, and dirty sweets dishes, and dirty pots, and a dirty soap dish, and a dirty frying pan, and a dirty kettle. He couldn’t find his books or his clock, or even his BED any more! He 1
twice [twais] — двічі, 2 рази; тут: вдвічі
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to find out [0faind 9aUt] — виявляти an ashtray [92Strei] — попільничка
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