A Boy and a Monkey

　　Mike is a little boy. He is only five years old. He is too small to go to school. So he can not read and write.

　　One day he stood at my desk with a pencil in his hand. There was a big piece of paper on the desk. He wanted to draw a picture of himself. He drew lines and cleared them out, then drew more and cleared them out again. When I looked at the picture, he wasn't happy. "Well," he said at last to me, "I'll put a tail on it and make it a monkey."

　　He began to add the tail. I began to laugh.

　　男孩和猴子

　　迈克是一个小男孩，他只有5岁。他太小还没有上学，因此也不会读和写。

　　一天，他手里拿着一支铅笔站在我的桌子前。桌子上放着一张大纸，他要画自画像。他画了几笔就擦掉了，再画几笔，有擦掉了。当我看一幅画时，他很不高兴。 "好吧，"他最后和我说，"我就再加一条尾巴，把他画成一只猴子吧！"

　　他开始加上小尾巴，我大笑起来。