书名:婉达·盖格绘本典藏(3):Nothing at all(英文朗读版)
作者:婉达・盖格
排版:tan
美编:tally
ISBN:9787201091723
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ONCE UPON A TIME there were three little orphan dogs. They were brothers. They lived in a far forgotten corner of an old forgotten farm in three forgotten kennels which stood there in a row.
One of the kennels had a pointed roof and in it lived Pointy, the dog with pointed ears.
Another kennel had a curly roof and in it lived Curly, the dog with curly ears.
The middle kennel had a roundish roof and in it lived the third dog, but whether he had round ears nobody knew, for he was a dog whom no one could see. He was invisible.
He was not very tall
Nor yet very small;
He looked like nothing,
Like nothing at all.
And that was his name — Nothing-at-all.
Nothing-at-all was happy enough, for although no one could see him, he had just as much fun as any other dog.
He could jump and run and eat. He could hear and see and smell. He could bark and romp and play with his two little puppy brothers.
And Pointy said to Nothing-at-all, “We love you even if we can’t see you.”
And Curly said, “We know you are a really truly dog even if we can’t see you. We can’t see the wind either but the wind is real. And we can’t see smells but smells are very real.”
And Nothing-at-all said, “Oh, I suppose it takes all kinds of dogs to make a world, both see-able and unseen-able ones, so why should I worry?”
And he was as happy as any dog could be until there came a day when something happened.
It was a warm and drowsy day. Pointy was lying in his pointed kennel, Curly was lying in his curly kennel, and Nothing-at-all was lying in his roundish kennel. They were dozing, all three, when the sound of voices roused them from their dreams.
“Oh look!” cried a boy-voice. “Here are some dog kennels in this far forgotten corner of the old forgotten farm.”
“With dogs in them?” asked a girl-voice.
The boy looked into one kennel and said, “Yes! There’s a curlyeared dog in here.”
Next he looked into another kennel and said, “And a pointy-eared dog in here!”
Then he looked into the middle kennel, but since only invisible Nothing-at-all was in there, he saw nothing. “The roundish kennel is empty,” he said. “Nothing in it at all.”
Gently and carefully the girl reached for Pointy; gently and carefully the boy reached for Curly, but the two little dogs were frightened and began to whimper.