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英语有趣的经典故事短文 The House of 1000 Mirrors Long ago in a small, faraway village, there was a place known as the House of 1000 Mirrors. A small, happy little dog learned of this place and decided to visit. When he arrived, he hounced happily up the stairs to the doorway of the house. He looked through the doorway with his ears lifted high and his tail wagging as fast as it could. To his great surprise, he found himself staring at 1000 other happy little dogs with their tails wagging just as fast as his. He smiled a great smile, and was answered with 1000 great smiles just as warm and firendly. As he left the House, he thought to himself, This is a wonderful place. I will come back and visit it often. In this same village, another little dog, who was not quite as happy as the first one, decided to visit the house. He slowly climbed the stairs and hung his head low as he looked into the door. When he saw the 1000 unfriendly looking dogs staring back at him, he growled at them and was horrified to see 1000 little dogs growling back at him. As he left, he thought to himself, That is a horrible place, and I will never go back there again. All the faces in the world are mirrors. What kind of reflections do you see in the faces of the people you meet? The mouse A philosophical mouse spoke loudly in praise of nature’s goodness for having made the mice such particular objects of her concern and protection. “For,” she said, “one half of us is provided by her with wings, so that if xiaogushi8 all here below were killed by cats, she could easily restore our extinguished race by means of the bats.” The good little mouse didn’t know that there were also flying cats and thus does our pride chiefly rest on ignorance. Do not hit your old servant An old woman had a cat. The cat was very old; she could not run quickly, and she could not bite, because she was so old. One day the old cat saw a mouse; she jumped a