小学英的语 Book 2 Lesson9 The fools.pptVIP

The Nine Fools Once there were nine fools. They crossed a river hand by hand. After crossing the river, an old fool asked, “ Are we all here? Let me count, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Only eight!”  “ Who is missing? One of us is surely in the river,” they cried.  They counted again and again, but there were only eight. A passer-by saw and asked them, “What’s wrong with you?” The fools told him about it. Then the passer-by helped them count again, “One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. It is nine now.”After the passer-by went away, they count