了不起的狐狸爸爸(英文版).doc

Generated by Foxit PDF Creator Foxit Software For evaluation only. Fantastic Mr Fox Roald Dahl1 The Three FarmersDown in the valley there were three farms. The owners of thesefarms had done well. They were rich men. They were also nastymen. All three of them were about as nasty and mean as anymen you could meet. Their names were Farmer Boggis FarmerBunce and Farmer Bean.Boggis was a chicken farmer. He kept thousands of chickens. Hewas enormously fat. This was because he ate three boiledchickens smothered with dumplings every day for breakfastlunch and supper.Bunce was a duck-and-goose farmer. He kept thousands of ducksand geese. He was a kind of pot-bellied dwarf. He was so shorthis chin would have been underwater in the shallow end of anyswimming-pool in the world. His food was doughnuts andgoose-livers. He mashed the livers into a disgusting paste andthen stuffed the paste into the doughnuts. This diet gave him atummy-ache and a beastly temper.Bean was a turkey-and-apple farmer. He kept thousands ofturkeys in an orchard full of apple trees. He never ate any food at 1 Generated by Foxit PDF Creator Foxit Software For evaluation only.all. Instead he drank gallons of strong cider which he made fromthe apples in his orchard. He was as thin as a pencil and thecleverest of them all.Boggis and Bunce and BeanOne fat one short one lean.These horrible crooksSo different in looksWere none the less equally mean.That is what the children round about used to sing when they sawthem. 2 Generated by Foxit PDF Creator Foxit Software For evaluation only.2 Mr FoxOn a hill above the valley there was a wood.In the wood there was a huge tree.Under the tree there was a hole.In the hole lived Mr Fox and Mrs Fox and their four Small Foxes.Every evening as soon as it got dark Mr Fox would say to Mrs Fox‘Well my darling what shall it be this time A plump chickenfrom Boggis A duck or a goose from Bunce Or a nice turkeyfrom Bean’ And when Mrs Fox had told him what she wantedMr Fox would cre