Fundamental English - Senior Series - Pupil's Book III [antikvár]

i. HENRY GOES CAMPING An unusual peacefulness had descended on the Bargery household. Henry was away. He had gone camping with his company of boy scouts. And although the family had got into a habit of girding at his loud laugh and boisterous ways, they found things rather dull without him. So when the postman brought a letter addressed to Mrs. Bargery in Henry's familiar hand, eager faces looked at her across the breakfast-table. Tearing open the envelope, and glancing at its contents, she exclaimed, " Why, it's not an ordinary letter ! It's written in rhyme. The country air has got into his head and made a poet of him," " Or a rhymester, at any rate," remarked Mr. Bargery. " Well, let's hear what he says." And this is what Mrs. Bargery read aloud : My dearest Mummy, here I sit. Feeling uncommonly well and fit, 5