The selfish giant——自私的巨人

The Selfish Giant

There was once a giant whowasn’t nice at all. He went away to visit a friend and didn’t come back forseven years. While he was away, children came to play in the giant’s lovelygardens. They were happy and forgot all about him.  Then the giant came back. “What are youdoing?” he bellowed, and all the children ran away.

So the giant built a tallwall, and put up a notice, warning the children to keep out. At first the giantwas pleased. Then he noticed that no birds came and sang in his gardens anymore. And worse, it was always winter. The giant became sad.

Then one morning the song ofa bird woke the giant. He looked out and saw that the children had come back.They had crept through a hole in the wall, and now the gardens were full offlowers and birds.The giant tore down the wall and promised never to be selfishagain.