ГДЗ по английскому языку 11 Класс класс упражнение - 17 р. 9 b

Miller: Good morning, little Hans.

Hans:  Good morning.

Miller: And how have you been all winter?

Hans: Well, really, it is very good of you to ask, very good indeed. I am afraid I had rather a hard time of it, but now the spring has come, and I am quite happy, and all my flowers are doing well.

Miller: We often talked of you during the winter, Hans, and wondered how you were getting on.

Hans: That was kind of you. I was half afraid you had forgotten me.

Miller: Hans, I am surprised at you. Friendship never forgets. How lovely your primroses are looking, by the way!

Hans: They are certainly very lovely, and it is a most lucky thing for me that I have so many. I am going to bring them into the market and sell them to the Burgomaster’s daughter, and buy back my wheelbarrow with the money.

Miller: Buy back your wheelbarrow? You don’t mean to say you have sold it? What a very stupid thing to do!

Hans: Well, you see the winter was a very bad time for me, and I really had no money at all to buy bread with. So I first sold the silver buttons off my Sunday coat, and then I sold my silver chain and lastly I sold my wheelbarrow. But I am going to buy them all back again now.

Miller: Hans, I will give you my wheelbarrow. It is not in very good repair; indeed, one side is gone, and there is something wrong with the wheel-spokes; but in spite of that I will give it to you…I think that generosity is the essence of friendship, and, besides, I have got a new wheelbarrow for myself.

Hans: Well, really, that is generous of you. I can easily repair it, as I have a plank of wood in the house.

Miller: A plank of wood! Why, that is just what I want for the roof of my barn. There is a very large hole in it, and the corn will all get damp if I don’t stop it up. How lucky you mentioned it! I have given you my wheelbarrow, and now you are going to give me your plank. Pray get it at once, and I will set to work at my barn this very day.

Hans: Certainly.

Miller: It is not a very big plank, and I am afraid that after I have mended my barn-roof there won’t be any left for you to mend the wheelbarrow with; but, of course, that is not my fault. And now, as I have given you my wheelbarrow, I am sure you would like to give me some flowers in return. Here is the basket, and mind you fill it quite full.

Hans: Quite full?

Miller: Well, really, as I have given you my wheelbarrow, I don’t think that it is much to ask you for a few flowers. I may be wrong, but I should have thought that friendship, true friendship, was quite free from selfishness of any kind.

Hans: My dear friend, my best friend, you are welcome to all the flowers in my garden. I would much sooner have your good opinion than my silver buttons, any day.

Miller: Good-bye, little Hans.

Hans: Good-bye.  

 

Similarities:

• Both dialogues show that the Miller continue exploiting Hans’ generosity under the guise of friendship.
• The Miller immediately asks for favors (roof repair, flowers). 
• In both stories, Hans had to sell his belongings to survive the winter.