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Literature 2

A. Look at the title of the story and the

pictures. What is the story about? Listen,
read and find out.

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Mr Gordon and his family lived at Birtwick Park. His groom led me
past a big gate and we went down a long road with tall trees on both
sides. The house had beautiful gardens round it with pretty flowers.
We went past the apple trees until we arrived at the stables. The
groom led me to the first stall. In the stall next to mine there was a fat
grey pony with a thick mane and tail and a pretty head. ‘How do you
do? I’m Darkie,’ I said. ‘What’s your name?’
‘My name is Merrylegs,’ he said. ‘The children, Miss Jessie and
Miss Flora, ride me, and they love me very much. I’m their favourite!
Are you going to live next door to me?’ When I answered that I thought
so, he said, ‘I hope you have got good manners. I don’t like horses that
bite!’ Just then, I heard a neigh. It came from a tall reddish-brown
horse near Merrylegs. She was very pretty but
seemed angry. ‘It isn’t good manners to take the
stall of another horse,’ she said as she looked at
me. ‘I’m sorry,’ I said. ‘Is this your stall?’ ‘Yes, it is,’
she said. ‘They moved me so that you could take
it!’ ‘I’m sorry, but I didn’t ask anyone to do that;
the groom put me here,’ I said.
In the afternoon, when she went out,
Merrylegs told me about her. ‘The thing is that
Ginger has got a bad habit. She bites people,’ he
said. ‘She bit James, the stable boy, on the arm,
and now the children are scared to come to the
stables. They used to bring me nice apples and
carrots to eat. I miss them.’

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