apples pears plums grapes bananas

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Now you have ten pearls. What would you like to do? Tick (a) or (b),
or write your answer in (c).

I would like to sell all the pearls.
I would like to keep all the pearls. c)

One day the King said to his servant, 'Paint the temple!'

In the evening, one of the painters still had some red paint in his tin. 'What do I do with the red paint?' he said to himself. 'I know! I'll paint the lions' eyes.' He painted the four stone eyes red. Then he cleaned his brushes and went home.

Next morning Happy went to see the lions and saw their red eyes. He remembered the old woman's words. He did not go to school. He ran home to tell his mother. Soon it started to rain.

Happy told his mother about the lions' red eyes. Lan was very frightened. She put the pearls in a pocket in her trousers. She

and Happy ran to tel'I their friends about the flood, but they did not listen to them. Lan and Happy went to the river. They saw a fishing boat with a strong bamboo roof.

'Will you sell us your boat if I give you a pearl?' Lan asked the fisherman. She gave him a pearl.

The fisherman looked at the pearl and said, 'You can have my boat and my fishing nets, too!' Then he got off the boat.

Lan and Happy put food and water in the boat. Then they climbed into the boat and the boat floated slowly down the Yangtze River. It rained and rained. Soon the river was very high. The water covered the rice fields, then it covered the houses near the river.

Many people and animals died. Sometimes Lan and Happy could only see the tops of the trees above the water.

After many days, the rain stopped. Lan and Happy saw a beautiful hill in front of them. It looked like an island in the water. A small farm was on the hill. There was a little house on the farm. There was a plum tree with a lot of white flowers in front of the house.

'The old woman saved us!' said Happy 'Let's live here, mother!' Lan nodded!