Bill, Bingo and Bram 3

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Bill would tell us stories of his work, of holidays, of his biggest adventure, which involved travelling across the Irish Sea to the Isle of Man in stormy seas. He had been young with men who still lived a few doors from him. He would tell us how, as a sleeping child he was lifted from his bed, and placed on his father's shoulders to see a German Zeppelin fly overhead during the Great War, and of how as a young man, he had continued working as a painter and "I heard some Bill dispensed with the whole matter of industrial relations: "Honest day's work, fer a honest day's pay," he intoned, solemnly, and sounding the 'h' in 'honest' - causing secret amusement in my brothers and myself. Bill knew everything. Later, as an older teenager, I would joke with my father about Bill's "That's the 6.20 from Crewe," he said, nursing an My Father and I exchanged smiles, and would later laugh, once Bill had shuffled off up the backs, and his green gate had closed. Bill knew sporting figures too, and had a particular "I saw Denis down Stoke the other day when I was going to the market," the tale would begin, "'Denis', I shouted, he saw me from across the street, 'How you doing Bill?' he shouted. 'You want to sharpen up on defending against crosses from the left,' I told him, 'that goal as got in on Saturday wouldn't 'ave 'appened! Mark my words.' 'Right you are Bill!' he said." Bill had advice for everyone - often whether it was sought or not - but he was so much one of nature's gentlemen that he was impossible to resist. You found yourself nodding sagely, and tracing the patterns of the end of his animated index finger, in receipt of the raised eyebrows, the thorough  

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部分单词解释

some 来自三年级上学期	一些
day 来自二年级下学期	白天
father 来自三年级下学期	父亲
bed 来自一年级下学期	床
once 来自五年级下学期	一旦
whole 来自五年级下学期	整体
German 来自六年级上学期	德国的
one 来自一年级上学期	一
with 来自四年级上学期	具有
honest 来自五年级上学期	诚实

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