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.
(continued next time)

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

Oliver Among the Thieves

Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
Copyright Penguin Book ltd 2000

A summary of the story
Oliver asked Fagin to let him go out to work with Dawkins and Charley Bates.One morning Fagin allowed Oliver to go. They came out of a narrow street into a square. Oliver looked at them in surpise. The two boys walked across the road and went close behind the old gentleman. Dawkins put his hand into the old man's pocket and take out a stuff.
they ran awey. Oliver lately ran away too. But Oliver was caght by someone. Oliver complained to the police. A clerk
of book store said he did nothing. So Oliver was helped by the man. Oliver was taken into a house and put to bed.
Fagin looked for Oliver.

(continued next time)
constable:警官
A police constable pushed through the crowd.
seize:逮捕する
A man seized oliver by the neck.
own:所有する
I own the bookshop.

Fagin

Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
Copyright Penguin Book Ltd 2000

A summary of the story
Jack took Oliver a house. There were an old gentleman and four or five boys there. The old man's name was Fagin.
Fagin gave Oliver a bed on the floor and he fell asleep immediately. Late next morning, Oliver woke from long asleep.
Then Oliver watched Fagin through half-closed eyes. He placed a box carefully on the table. He took an expensive
gold watch from the box with pleasure. Then He noticed Oliver who was looking at him. He threatened Oliver that
this was mine. Jack and another boy had commited various tefts. From now on Oliver had to commit a theft too.
(continued next time)

innocent:無罪の
He is innocent, isn't he ?
awake:目が覚めて
Why are you awake?

London

Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
Copyright Penguin Book Ltd 2000

A summary of the story
Oliver didn't where to go. he remembered walking along this path with Mr Bumble, and he took the
same road. soon he passed the workhouse. Oliver said goodbye to one of his old friends and oliver kept
walking again. He had heard people talk about London. They said that a boy need not to be poor and hungry
there. It was a good place for a homeless boy to go, he told himself. So Oliver decided to go there. Early on the
seventh morning, Oliver walked slowly into the little town of Barnet, a few miles from London. Oliver met a boy.
The boy's name was Jack. He helped Oliver who was weak.

vehicle:車
He remembered that vehicles went up the hills.
immediately:すぐに
He fell asleep immediately.

He Runs Away

Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
Copyright Penguin Book Ltd 2000

A summary of the story
Oliver was a prisoner in that cold, dark room for a whole week. One day, Mr Bumble met Mr Sowerberry.
Mr Bumble sold Oliver to him for five ponds. Oliver came to Mr sowerberry' shop. He opened adoor and pushed
Oliver down some stairs into a dark room. The living here was also awful for Oliver. One morning Oliver heard a
noise somebody knocked the shop door. Oliver opened the door. Then a large boy sit in front of the house. He was
Noah Claypole. He made Oliver work under him. No longer able to stand their violence, Oliver left home.

cruel:むごい
He had listened to their cruel words.
weep:泣く
He started to weep.

Oliver ask for more

Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
Copyright　Penguin Book Ltd 2000

A summary of the story
There was a house for poor people who had no money and nowhere to live in a town in England.
This was called the workhouse. Oliver Twist was born in there. At the age of nine, Oliver was a pale,
thin child. He and the other workhouse boys never had enough warm clothes or food. They were given
only three meals of thin soup every day. One day Oliver decided that ask master for more soup. In the
evening, he went to the master with his bowl and spoon in his hands. And said "I want some more."
He took Oliver away and shut him in a dark room. (continued next time.)

pillow:まくら
She lifted her head from the pillow.
orphan:孤児
The child was an orphan.