Lazybones Day（懒汉节）

    Are you a lazybones? If you are，you have to treat your friends to Candy or Cake on Lazybones Day．

    In Holland，that is the day for lazybones cakes．Lazybones cakes ere hot cakes with syrup （糖浆）on top．

    Early in the morning on Lazybones Day, you and your friends march through the streets and make as much noise as you can．You shout．you whistle．and you bang on pots and pans（炊事用具）．

      When you ring a doorbell and find a boy or girl asleep，you shout，“Lazybones! Lazybones：”And being a sleepyhead．the poor lazybones has to pay you with candy or cake．

When everyone is awake，you go to the market place，and eat gingerbread{姜饼），ice cream，and lazybones cakes．

    Lazybones Day started long ago because of a man named Piet Lak．Piet Lak was a watchman who fell asleep while enemies marched into Holland．After that people called him Lazy Lak．Now children remember Lazy Lak by making as much hullabaloo（吵闹）as they can early, in the morning on Lazybones Day, about seven weeks after Easter．

1．What does a lazybones have to treat his friends to?

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2．When do you march through the streets and make as much noise as you can?

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3．Why did people call Pier Lak Lazy Lak?

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4．When is Lazybones Day?

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5．Where did Lazybones Day originally start?

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1、1．Candy or cake．／He or she has to treat his or her friends to candy or cake．

2．Early in the morning on Lazybones Day．

3．Because Piet Lak fell asleep while enemies marched into Holland．

4．About seven weeks after Easter．

5．In Holland．