The Smell of Bread

分享分享....分享我英文老师给我的一篇很有趣的文章.....

A baker lives in a small town. Every day he makes bread at his bakery. He thick, brown bread is delicious. It has a wonderful smell.

Every morning Gabriel sits down in front of the bakery and smells the bread. Gabriel is a poor man. He doesn't have enough money to buy the bread, but he loves the smell.

One winter day the baker sees Gabriel smelling the bread. He gets very angry. "You are stealing the smell of my bread," he says. "You can't do that! You must pay me for it!" "I'm not eating the bread," answers Gabriel. "I don't have to pay just to smell it." "Yes , you do," says the baker. "Let's ask the judge," says Gabriel.

The judge listens to Gabriel and the baker. "This is a difficult problem," he says. He sits and thinks. After two hours the judge asks Gabriel, " Do you have any money?" Gabriel takes out a little bag with ten pennies in it. " Shake the bag, Gabriel," says the judge. Gabriel shakes the bag and the coin jingle. "Listen to the sound of the coins, Baker," says the judge. "The sound of Gabriel's money pays for the smell of your bread."

我觉得这篇文章写得真好.....那个baker很小气，那个Gabriel很正义和那个法官很聪敏.....