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How I Missed a Train It was a sultry mid-summer afternoon. As I was to leave for Beijing by train at 6 p. m. and stay in the train the whole night, my experienced aunt stressed that the first important thing for me to do was to get some sleep. As my aunt insisted, I went to bed and slept. Soon my exhausted aunt also fell asleep. The hypnotizing high temperature tended to make people sleep like a log, and we woke up to find it was already 5 o’clock! My aunt’s home was quite a long way from the railway station, so I suggested that we should go without supper. But my aunt insisted that a good meal was absolutely necessary. Six dishes were put on the table twenty minutes later. Just as I picked up the chopsticks, my brother brought up the subject of his girlfriend and asked me to say something nice about her when I saw Mother. I argued against it, because I had never talked with the girl and knew nothing about her. My brother was very much annoyed, not to say that the argument cost me five more precious minutes! When my aunt and I finally arrived at the station, we found another aunt of mine had been waiting there for some time. After a long and affectionate exchange of farewells, I turned to find the passengers’ gate already closed. Looking at my watch, I saw there were only five minutes left! The three of us rushed to the passengers’ gate and banged on the mental rail, begging the inspectors to open the gate. But nobody seemed to hear us. I was both anxious and furious. My mind worked quickly and an idea came to me---I would climb over the fence. Just as I was doing so, I heard the sound of the siren. My disappointment was so great that I almost fell form the fence.  A Lost Lamb The coach was running along the country road, and the landscape outside became more and more familiar. I knew I was approaching the small village of Old Uncle and Aunt. Again, the small adventure of my childhood came to my mind. It was when I was a six-year-old girl and stayed in that vill