A poor farmer had a friend who was famous for the wonderful apple he grew. One day, his friend gave the farmer a young apple tree and told him to take it home and plant it. The...

导读：请记住——请记住，生命中所有最美好的时刻都很少发生在你独自一人的时候。 It was 2 p.m., and she was running. She hated running. Loathed it really. She felt like it wa...

   The swallows and sparrows are very pleased to find a place on the roof of the hall for their nests.    The mother birds are feeding their babies with pleasu...

This evening I met a friend at a local bar.  She brought her laptop along so she could show me some of her latest digital art designs.  As we chatted and scrolled through...

Mr. Robinson had to travel somewhere on business, and as he was in a hurry, he decided to go by air. He liked sitting beside a window when he was flying, so when he got on to the p...

There was a rich merchant who had 4 wives. He loved the 4th wife the most and adorned her with rich robes and treated her to delicacies. He took great care of her and gave her noth...

This past April while visiting my parents on the farm I‘d grown up on, I wandered outside to drink in the feel of 'home', a comfort I really needed right then. I was used to sunny...

A squirrel, merrily leaping on the branches of an oak tree, accidentally missed its hold and fell upon a lion who lay at the trunk, basking in the shade. His Majesty awoke in anger...

Cancellation of love   Just as my husband pulled his delivery van away from the florist, the manager came running out. There was a cancellation on one of the orders, and he ne...

The ability of the Kangaroo The zoo built a special eight-foot-high enclosure for its newly acquired kangaroo, but the next morning the animal was found hopping around outside. T...