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