THE UMBRELLA MAN

THE UMBRELLA MAN

Roald Dahl

A SUMMARY OF THE STORY

"I wonder if I could ask a small favor of you ," he said. But my mother was looking at him suspiciously. She felt quite embarrassed by her mother's sharpness. He asked my mother to give him in return a pound for his taxi-fare to get his home. My mother was still suspicious. " If you had no money in the first place, how did you get there?" Her mother said. He told her that he walked here. "Everyday I go for a lovely long walk and then I summon a taxi to take me home. " he said. Her mother was beginning to melt a bit. And the idea of getting an umbrella to shelter under must have tempted her good deal.　" Why don't you take it, madam," he said.

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suspiciously:疑わしげに

embarrassed:恥ずかしい

sharpness:厳しい態度

in the first place:そもそも

summon:呼び出す

melt:和らぐ

tempt：誘う

THE UMBRELLA MAN

THE UMBRELLA MAN
Roald Dahl

A summary of the story
A funny thing happened to her mother and her yesterday evening. She is twelve years old and She is a girl. Her mother is thirty-four but she is nearly as tall as her mother.

Yesterday afternoon, her mother took me up to London to see the dentist. After that, They went to a cafe. When they came out of the cafe it had started to rain. They were wearing ordinary hats and coats, and it was raining quite hard. They stood on the pavement in the rain, looking for a taxi. Just then, a man came up to them. He was a small man and he was pretty old, probably seventy or more. He said to her mother,"Excuse me. I do hope you will excuse me.." He had a fine white moustache and bushy white eyebrows and a wrinkly pink face.
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wrinkly:しわしわの
eyebrow:まゆ
bushy:ふさふさした
moustache:口ひげ
pavement:舗道
nearly:ほとんど