Lesson D - 44 New Words (most used: 483-526)
prove
lone leg
exercise wall
catch wish
sky board
joy winter
wild glass
grass cow
job edge
sign visit
past soft
fun bright
gas weather month
bear finish
interest
hope
flower strange
jump baby
meet root
buy raise
solve metal
whether push
shall hair
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BARBARA AND THE BEAR
Barbara loves to exercise on the weekend by visiting the forest. Even in the winter months, she jumps into her car and buys gas, so she can leave the city and her job. She drives away, past the sign boards and the walls of metal and glass. Whether the weather is good or bad, Barbara gets her joy when she is running on the forest roads. In a cold field today, the flowers are missing and the cows eat the last little grass. The sky is bright. Barbara is happy.
And then she sees the lone wild bear, far away in the forest. She hopes the bear does not see her. She moves her legs faster. Soon, the bear seems far behind. This is not fun, Barbara thinks.
But now she
meets something very
strange on the road. She slows to a walk. A
baby boy with blue eyes is playing with a
baby bear with
soft black
hair. The boy is laughing. He is down on his hands just like the
bear.
He
pushes the little
bear. The
baby bear falls over a tree
root, and cries out.
I shall solve this problem now, Barbara thinks. She catches the boy under this arms, and runs away quickly. The baby bear is running after them. A few seconds later, Barbara sees a woman on the road. The woman says, “You’re taking my baby!”
“You
wish…,” Barbara says, still running, “I did not take your baby! I’ll
prove it. Look back there. There is a
baby bear.”
By now there is also a large mother bear running toward them at the edge of the road. Barbara, with the boy, looks back to see the boy’s mother raise up her hands and wave them at the mother bear. “You get out of here,” the unhappy mother of the boy says, with great force, to the mother of the bear. “Take your baby and keep off of my land.”
The baby bear goes running back to his mother. They finish by walking together back into the forest. The boy’s mother takes him from Barbara, whose eyes are very wide now. “When they start to walk, they find all kinds of interesting things,” the mother says. “Now, you’re up from the city, I think. Do you feel like something to eat?”
“I felt like something to eat for the bear when she was running after me,” laughs Barbara.