Мне с ответить на вопросы по тексту. answer the questions: 1. who is mentioned in the passage? 2. who did not like mustard? 3. why did existence seem uninteresting to the friends? 4. who seemed to be the most impatient? 5. who suffered most in the attempt to open the tin? 6. what made
harris throw the tin into the water? 7. if the author intended the passage to have a moral what do you think it is? choose the answer from those suggested below. a. it is never wise to eat tinned food. b. patience is always necessary. c. always carry a tin-opener. d. never travel by boat. a nice
picnic lunch on our boating trip we went on to a little island, where we camped and lunched. we ate cold beef for lunch and then we found that we had forgotten to bring any mustard with us. i don’t care for mustard as a rule, and it is very seldom that i take it at all but then i felt i would give
worlds for it. so did harris.we ate our beef in silence. existence seemed uninteresting. we became happier, however, over the apple-tart, and when george drew out a tin of pine-apple from the bottom of the basket we felt that life was worth living after all. we are very fond of pine-apples, all
three of us. we looked at the picture on the tin; we thought of the juice. we smiled at one another,and harris got a spoon ready.then we looked for the tin-opener. we turned out everything in the basket. there was no tin-opener to be found. then harris tried to open the tin with a pocket-knife. and
broke the knife and cut himself badly; and george tried a pair of scissors, and the scissors flew up and nearly put his eye out. while they were dressing their wounds, i tried to make a hole in the thing with the boat-hook, and the boat-hook slipped and threw me out between the boat and the bank
into two foot of muddy water. the tin rolled over and broke a tea cup. morris rushed at the thing,caught it and flung it far into the middle of the river.