Narrative Text The Buffoon and the Countryman
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The Buffoon and the Countryman
At a country fair there was a Buffoon who made all the people laugh by imitating the cries of various animals. He finished off by squeaking so like a pig that the spectators thought that he had a porker concealed about him. But a Countryman who stood by said:
“Call that a pig’s squeak! Nothing like it. You give me till tomorrow and I will show you what it’s like.”
The audience laughed, but next day, sure enough, the Countryman appeared on the stage, and putting his head down squealed so hideously that the spectators hissed and threw stones at him to make him stop.
“You fools!” he cried, “see what you have been hissing,” and held up a little pig whose ear he had been pinching to make him utter the squeals.
Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
Taken from: http://www.aesops-fables.org.uk
The possibly new vocabulary for you:
1. buffoon: someone who behaves in a stupid and annoying way
2. squeak: to make a short, high noise
3. spectator: someone who watches a public activity or event, especially a sports event
4. porker: a young pig that has been made fat so that it can be eaten as pork
5. conceal: to cover something so that it is hidden
6. hideously: very ugly or frightening in appearance
7. hissed: to make a long ‘s‘ sound like the sound that a snake makes,
to say something in a low angry voice
8. pinch: to squeeze someone‘s skin between your thumb and finger so that it hurts them
9. utter: to make a sound
10. squeal: to make a long high sound
11. applaud: to show that you enjoyed someone‘s performance, speech etc by hitting the palms of your hands together
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