American Tale: You can't get out (reading practice)

You can't get out
retold by
S. E. Schlosser


One dark, windy night, the town drunk was meandering his way home after the bar closed. Somehow he got turned around and ended up walking through the churchyard instead of taking the road home.


The wind picked up and he thought he could hear a voice calling his name. Suddenly, the ground opened up in front of him, and he fell down, down into an open grave! He could hear the voice clearer now, calling to him. He knew it was the devil, coming for him just like the preacher said, on account of him being the town drunk.


The hole was very deep and inside it was pitch black. His eyes adjusted to the darkness after a few moments, and he made out a form sitting in the darkness with him. It called his name, and he scrambled away in fear, trying to climb out of that terrible grave. Then the figure spoke. "You can't get out," it said.


The drunk gave a shout of pure terror and leapt straight up more than six feet. He caught the edge of the hole in his hands, scrambled out, and ran for home as fast as he could go.


Inside the open grave, his neighbor Charlie sighed in resignation. He'd fallen into the hole a few minutes before his friend and had thought that together they might help each other climb out. Now he was going to have to wait until morning and get the mortician to bring him a ladder.

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• 回复：American Tale: You can't get out (reading practice) -eyeyey- ♀ (276 bytes) () 08/22/2009 postreply 12:25:16

• Thanks, need to practice and practice -englishreader- ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/22/2009 postreply 12:49:31

• 回复：American Tale: You can't get out (reading practice) -梅石莹玉- ♀ (409 bytes) () 08/22/2009 postreply 21:11:46

• you have done pretty good. -englishreader- ♂ (358 bytes) () 08/23/2009 postreply 09:17:17

• 有趣的American Tale，谢谢englishreader朗读。周日快乐。 -婉蕠- ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/23/2009 postreply 07:21:29

• You are a great story teller, and here is my shot. -北京二号- ♀ (1842 bytes) () 08/23/2009 postreply 11:27:51