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小学水平的英语故事阅读 A goat was straying in a vineyard, and began to browse on the tender shoots of a vine which bore several fine bunches of grapes. What have I done to you, said the vine, that you should harm me thus? Isnt there grass enough for you to feed on? All the same, even if you eat up every leaf I have, and leave me quite bare, I shall produce wine enough to pour over you when you are led to the altar祭坛，圣坛to be sacrificed. A young hound started a hare, and, when he caught her up, would at one moment snap at her with his teeth as though he were about to kill her, while at another he would let go his hold and frisk蹦跳 about her, as if he were playing with another dog. At last the Hare said, I wish you would show yourself in your true colours! If you are my friend, why do you bite me? If you are my enemy, why do you play with me? He is no friend who plays double. A lark nested in a field of corn, and was rearing her brood一窝 under cover of theripening grain. One day, before the young were fully fledged羽翼丰满, the farmer came to look at the crop, and, finding it yellowing fast, he said, I must send round word to my neighbours to come and help me reap this field. One of the young Larks overheard him, and was very much frightened, and asked her mother whether they hadnt better move house at once. Theres no hurry, replied she; a man who looks to his friends for help will take his time about a thing. In a few days the out of the ears upon the ground. I must put it off no longer, he said; This very day Ill hire the men and set them to work at once. The lark heard him and said to her young, Come, my children, we must be off: he talks no more of his friends now, but is going to take things in hand himself. Self-help is the best help. A soldier gave his horse a plentiful supply of oats燕麦 in time of war, and tended him with the utmost care, for he wished him to be strong to endure the hardships of the field, and swift to bear his master, when n