A middle-aged, well-to-do woman from Surrey was doing her Christmas shopping. She thought she would like a cup of tea. She went to a cafe in the department store, took a vacant seat with relief and laid all her parcels and her handbag on the chair next to her. A pot of good English tea was brought. While she was enjoying it she suddenly noticed a hand from behind snatch her handbag. She was so shocked that she could not react at once. When the woman understood all, the thief had disappeared. She walked to the Security and reported that she had been robbed and explained what had happened. She really did not have much hope that her handbag with the keys, money, credit cards would be found, especially so close to Christmas, when there was so little money in people's purses but it was more of a pleasant surprise when the people from the store rang her later that day. They said they had found her bag and added that if she came straight away, she would be able to get it back. Happy she hurried to the store. But when she arrived at the place, the people had no idea what the old dear was talking about. The poor shopper returned home. While she was opening the door it suddenly occurred to her that it was the handbag snatcher who had phoned her. During her absence the thief had taken away all the things from her house.
A boy who worked in a shop in a country town sent by his master to the house of a rich customer with a valuable ring.
"Don't open the box," the shopkeeper telled the boy. "If you lose the ring you will be punished." The boy's way was liing across a large park through which flowes a stream. As the boy was crossing the bridge which was throwing across the stream he foolishly took the ring out of the box as he wanted to have a look at it. While he was doing it the ring sliped out of his hand and fуll into the mud on the bank of the stream. He tryed to find it for a long time but couldn't do it.
At last darkness made him stop his search. "If my master learns it he will kill me," thought the poor boy. He was so frightened that he decided that he would never return home. He had to run away and he becomed a sailor.
He spendt many years in America and get very rich. But still he was dreaming that one day he would go back to his home country. And so he did. He bought the estate with the stream into which he droped the ring as a boy.
One day when he and his friend were walking along the bank of the stream, which caused him so much trouble, they came to the place where he losed the ring. He pushed his stick into the mud exclaiming, "I was absolutely sure that it was the exact spot where the ring lose." And when he pulled the stick out he saw the ring hanging at the end of it.
A middle-aged, well-to-do woman from Surrey was doing her Christmas shopping. She thought she would like a cup of tea. She went to a cafe in the department store, took a vacant seat with relief and laid all her parcels and her handbag on the chair next to her. A pot of good English tea was brought. While she was enjoying it she suddenly noticed a hand from behind snatch her handbag. She was so shocked that she could not react at once. When the woman understood all, the thief had disappeared. She walked to the Security and reported that she had been robbed and explained what had happened. She really did not have much hope that her handbag with the keys, money, credit cards would be found, especially so close to Christmas, when there was so little money in people's purses but it was more of a pleasant surprise when the people from the store rang her later that day. They said they had found her bag and added that if she came straight away, she would be able to get it back. Happy she hurried to the store. But when she arrived at the place, the people had no idea what the old dear was talking about. The poor shopper returned home. While she was opening the door it suddenly occurred to her that it was the handbag snatcher who had phoned her. During her absence the thief had taken away all the things from her house.
A boy who worked in a shop in a country town sent by his master to the house of a rich customer with a valuable ring.
"Don't open the box," the shopkeeper telled the boy. "If you lose the ring you will be punished." The boy's way was liing across a large park through which flowes a stream. As the boy was crossing the bridge which was throwing across the stream he foolishly took the ring out of the box as he wanted to have a look at it. While he was doing it the ring sliped out of his hand and fуll into the mud on the bank of the stream. He tryed to find it for a long time but couldn't do it.
At last darkness made him stop his search. "If my master learns it he will kill me," thought the poor boy. He was so frightened that he decided that he would never return home. He had to run away and he becomed a sailor.
He spendt many years in America and get very rich. But still he was dreaming that one day he would go back to his home country. And so he did. He bought the estate with the stream into which he droped the ring as a boy.
One day when he and his friend were walking along the bank of the stream, which caused him so much trouble, they came to the place where he losed the ring. He pushed his stick into the mud exclaiming, "I was absolutely sure that it was the exact spot where the ring lose." And when he pulled the stick out he saw the ring hanging at the end of it.