Mrs Clarke was busy now. Her husband went to the station. Her mother’s train would arrive at five o’clock. She bought some meat and vegetables in the market that morning. She was a good teacher and she was a good cook, too. She called her five-year old son Mike in and gave him two oranges and said, “Here are two oranges. One is for Mary and the other for you. Look after her and I’ll cook some delicious food for you.”
The boy was happy and ran out. After a while the woman heard Mike screaming in the next room. She went there quickly and found Mary was pulling his hair. She stopped the little girl and tried to comfort him, “Never mind, son! She’s only three. She doesn’t understand that it hurts you.”
But she had been back for no more than a minute, another cry made her hurry to the room again. This time Mary was crying there.
“What’s the matter?” Mrs Clarke asked her son.
“Nothing much,” said the boy,“only now she’s understood!”
(1)
There were four people in Mrs Clarke’s family.
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(2)
Mrs Clarke was good at cooking, so she didn’t go to meet her mother.
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(3)
Mrs Clarke didn’t know what happened to her children, so she hurried there.
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(4)
Mrs Clarke wanted Mike to forgive Mary.
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(5)
As soon as Mrs Clarke left, Mike pulled Mary’s hair.