【中英文绘本故事】图书馆狮子2library lion中集
At first, the people in the library were nervous about the lion. But soon they got used to having him around. In fact, he seemed very well suited for the library. His big feet were quiet on the library floor. He make comfy backrest for the children at the story hours. And he never roared in the library anymore.
“What a helpful lion,” people said. They patted his soft head as he walked by. “How did we ever get along without him?”
Mr. McBee scowled when he heard that. They had always gotten along fine before. No lions were needed! Lions, he thought, could not understand rules. They did not belong in the library.
One day, after he had dusted all the encyclopedias and licked all the envelopes and helped all the small children, the lion padded down the hall to Miss Merriweather’s office to see what else there was to do.
There was still some time left before story hour.
“Hello, Lion,” said Miss Merriweather.
“I know something you can do. You can bring a book back into the stacks for me. Let me just get it down from the shelf.”
Miss Merriweather steeped up onto the step stool. The book was just out of reach.
Miss Merriweather stood on her toes. She stretched out her fingers.
“Almost…there…” she said.
Then Miss Merriweather stretched a little too far.
“Ouch,” said Miss Merriweather softly. She did not get up.
“Mr. McBee!” she called after a minute.”Mr. McBee!”
But Mr. McBee was at the circulation desk. He could not hear her calling.
“Lion,” said Miss Merriweather. “Please go and get Mr. McBee.”
The lion ran down the hall.
“No running,” Miss Merriweather called after him.
He put his big front paws up on the circulation desk and looked at Mr. McBee.
“Go away, Lion,” said Mr. McBee. “I’m busy.”
The lion whined. He pointed his nose down the hall toward Miss Merriweather’s office.
Mr. McBee ignored him.
Finally, the lion did the only thing he could think of to do. He looked Mr. McBee right in the eye. Then he opened his mouth very wide. And he roared the loudest roar he had every roared in his life.
RAAAHHHRRR!
Mr. McBee gasped.
“You’re not being quiet!” he said to the lion.
“You’re breaking the rules!”
Mr. McBee walked down the hall as fast as he could.
The lion did not follow him. He had broken the rules. He know what that meant. He hung his head and walked toward the doors.
Mr. McBee did not noticed. “Miss Merriweather!” he called as he walked. “Miss Merrieather! The lion broke the rules! The lion broke the rules!”
He burst into Miss Merriweather’s office.
She was not in her chair.
“Miss Merriweather?” he asked.
“Sometimes,” said Miss Merriweather from the floor behind her desk, “there is a good reason to break the rules. Even in the library. Now please go call a doctor. I think I’ve broken my arm.”
Mr. McBee ran to call a doctor.
“No running!” Miss Merriweather called after him.
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