English Intensive Reading 吉林大学远程教育学院
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				Lesson 4  Text  ( Page 4)
			CLAY: Yeah. We all thought he’d be back in a day or two, but now we know we’ve got to find him and bring him back. HARRY: How do you expect to do that? CLAY: Well, we put an ad in the paper.(25) HARRY: (Opening the paper) This paper? But your father’s not in town. How will he see an ad in this paper? CLAY: He might see it. Anyhow, we don’t know what else to do. We’re living off the money we saved from the summer we worked, (26)but there isn’t much left. HARRY: The summer you worked? CLAY: Yeah. Summer before last, just before we moved here, we picked cotton in Kern County. My father, my mother, and me. HARRY: (Indicating the paper) What do you say in your ad? CLAY: (Looking at it) Well, I say … ‘Clark Larrabee. Come home. Your fishing tackle’s in the closet safe and sound.(27) The fishing’s good, plenty of perch, and bass. Let bygones be bygones.(28) We miss you. Mama, Clay, Roxanna, Rufus, Clara. ‘Do you think if my father reads it, he’ll come home? HARRY: I don’t know, Clay. I hope so. CLAY: Yeah. Thanks a lot for the haircut, Mr. Van Dusen. (Clay goes out. Harry takes off the hat, and begins to shave. A pretty girl in a swimming suit comes into the shop, closing a colorful parasol.) HARRY: Miss America(29), I presume. THE GIRL: Miss McCutcheon. HARRY: Harry Van Dusen. THE GIRL: How do you do? HARRY: (Bowing) Miss McCutcheon. THE GIRL: I’m new here.(30) HARRY: You’d be new anywhere.(31) Surely you don’t live here. THE GIRL: As a matter of fact, I do. At any rate, I’ve been here since last Sunday. You see, I’m the new teacher at the school. HARRY: You are?