• Law, Schmaw!

    14-11-19 Two small boys, not yet old enough to be in school, were overheard talking at the zoo one day. My name is Billy. What's yours? asked the first boy. Tommy, replied the second. My Daddy's an accountant. What does your Daddy do for a living? asked Bill...

  • 真假母亲

    14-09-24 One day, two women came to king Solomon with a baby boy. Both women said the boy was their son. No one knew which woman was telling the truth. King Solomon ordered a soldier to cut the boy in half, and divide the boy between the two women. The first...

  • American Tragedy 美国悲剧 chapter 2

    14-09-05 That such a family, thus cursorily presented, might have a different and somewhat peculiar history could well beanticipated, and it would be true. Indeed, this one presented one of those anomalies of psychic and social reflexand motivation such as w...

  • Golden Windows

    14-08-18 There was a small boy living on a farm, he needed to get up before sunrise every morning to start his chores and out again later to do the evening ones. During sunrise he would take a break and climb up on the fence. So in the distance he could see...

  • A precocious boy 早慧的小男孩

    14-08-05 A little boy was wise beyond his age. One day he came home from the public library with a book. Its title was The Care and Management of Children. Oh, my god, exclaimed his mother in astonishment. What are you doing with a book like that? Oh, replie...

  • A little boy's age 一个小男孩的年龄

    14-07-30 One day a minister went to visit a home in his new parish. A little boy was playing in the living room. Before his mother came downstairs to greet the visitor, the minister cordially(诚挚地) asked the boy, How old are you, my little man? I am five...

  • Logical Deduction 逻辑推理

    14-07-21 The teacher asked her students in class: If there are five flies on your desk and you kill one, how many will remain? One, shouted a boy, the dead one. The teacher said: You should know that there are still four not dead. The boy replied: I know, bu...

  • A portrait of God 上帝的画像

    14-07-21 A little boy was drawing a sketch with pencil and paper. When his mother asked what he was doing, he answered immediately and with considerable pride: I am drawing a portrait of God. Being surprised and afraid, his mother said: You cannot do that. N...

  • Don't bother me 别烦我

    14-07-09 One day a kind man met a panicky little boy in his neighbor-hood when he was going home from his office. He noticed that the boy seemed to have fought with other boys. He kindly said: Why do you have a black eye, little man? I am sorry to see that?...

  • Naive reasoning 天真的推理

    14-07-09 A man was telling a story to his son, a four-year-old boy. The boy noticed a lock of gray hair on his father's head and asked: Why are some of your gray, papa? Papa will get a gray hair every time his little boy is naughty, said his father, thinking...