PeonForHer -> RE: The English are the reason for airplanes! (10/24/2016 3:58:41 AM)
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Re dragons: I read a cute little story about dragons a long while ago. Can't remember the author - John Wyndham springs to mind, but I have my doubts because it doesn't feel like his sort of thing. Anyway, there's a little Welsh village. One day, a small boy finds a dragon egg, hatches it, and looks after the dragon. The villagers all eventually find out, and they all help to bring it up. Eventually, it reaches what looks like adulthood. In the village lives a Chinaman. He's the only who's not much interested in the dragon. He reckons the dragon is a pretty poor specimen: he says it's too big and ugly to be a proper dragon. He boasts about how Chinese dragons are much better than Welsh dragons. This irks the Welshmen. Eventually, a challenge is thrown down: A Chinese versus a Welsh dragon, in one big fight! So they all club together to pay the Chinaman to go to China and get a Chinese Dragon to bring home. He does so. The Day of the Big Fight comes up. There's bated breath all around the village. Welshmen have turned up from valleys far and wide; a big group of the Chinaman's friends and relations have come back from China with him to watch the battle. Each dragon is in a cage, opposite each other, out in a big field; the spectators gathered around. At the cue, the doors of each cage are pulled open, and out spring the dragons. They begin to circle each other, both making low growling noises. Suddenly, the Chinese dragon turns round, casts a quick glance over its shoulder at the Welsh dragon, and runs off. The Chinaman is frowning - 'What's this?', he's thinking, 'Cowardice - from a Chinese dragon? Unthinkable! The disgrace!' Oddly, the Chinese dragon doesn't run off at full pelt. It seems a little half-hearted, in fact. The Welshie, takes up the chase ... and catches up with the Chinese. But, then ... all they do is jump on top of each other, around each other .... And then, after a short while of this odd behaviour, they run off, side by side, into the woods! There's a general murmuring of discontent in the crowd. What on earth is going on? What happened to the big fight? And then a couple of the women start laughing. Outraged, some men turn to them and demand to know what could possibly be funny. A woman replies, 'Have you never seen a teenage boy and a teenage girl when they first meet?'
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