Mr. Leonard was twenty-three years old and not very rich. He was not married and he lived in two rooms in a small house in a city.
Every summer, Mr. Leonard went down to the sea for a holiday. He stayed in small cheap hotels, but he always wanted to have a clean, tidy room. He hated dirty places.
One summer a friend of him said, "Go to the Tower Hotel in Whitesea. I went there last year, and it was very nice and clean".
So Mr. Leonard went to the Tower Hotel in Whitesea. But there was a different manager that year.
The new manager took Mr. Leonard to his room. The room looked quite nice and clean, but Mr. Leonard said to the manager, "Are the sheets on the bed clean?"
"Yes, of course they are!" he answered angrily. "We washed them this morning. Feel them. They're still damp".

Bai 13

Two years after Tom and Elizabeth married, they went to live in a small flat in a big city. They were both quite young: Tom was twenty-six and Elizabeth was twenty-two. Tom worked in a bank, and Elizabeth worked in a big office.
Elizabeth always cooked the dinner when they got home, and when they had meat, Tom always cut it up when they sat down to eat.
While Tom was cutting the meat up one evening, Elizabeth said to him, "When we were first married, Tom, you always gave me the bigger piece of meat when you cut it, and you kept the smaller one for yourself. Now you do the opposite: you give me the smaller piece and keep the bigger one for yourself. Why do you do that? Don't you love me any more?"
Her husband laughed and answered, "Oh, no, Elizabeth. It isn't that! It's because you've learned to cook now!"

Bai 14

Elizabeth was a very pretty girl, and her parents were rich. Quite a lot of the young men in the town wanted to marry her, but she was not satisfied with any of them.
One evening, one of the handsomest of the young men who wanted to marry Elizabeth came to visit her in her parents' house and asked her to become his wife. She answered, "No, William, I won't marry you. I want to marry a man who is famous, who can play music, sing and dance very well, who can tell really interesting stories, who does not smoke or drink, who stays at home in the evenings and who stops talking when I'm tired of listening".
The young man got up, took his coat and went to the door, but before he left the house, he turned and said to Elizabeth, "It isn't a man you're looking for. It's a television set".

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Miss Grey lived alone in a small flat. She was old and did not like noise at all, so she was very pleased when the noisy young man and woman who lived in the flat above her moved out. A new young man moved in, and Miss Grey thought, "Well, he looks quiet".
But at three o'clock the next morning, Miss Grey was woken up by the barking of a dog.
She thought, "I've never heard a dog here before. It must belong to the new man in the flat above. " So she telephoned the young man, said some nasty things to him about the dog and then hung the telephone up before he could answer.
Nothing more happened until three o'clock the next morning. Then Miss Grey's telephone rang, and when she answered, a voice said, "I'm the man upstairs. I've rung you up to say that I haven't got a dog".

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Mrs Robinson had one small son. His name was Billy. Mrs Robinson loved Billy very much, and as he was not a strong child, she was always afraid that he might get ill, so she used to take him to the best doctor in the town four times a year to be examined.
During one of these visits, the doctor gave Billy various tests and then said to him, "Have you had any trouble with your nose or ears recently?"
Billy thought for a second and then answered, "Yes, I have".
Mrs Robinson was very worried. "But I'm sure you've never told me that, Billy" She said anxiously.
"Oh, really? " said the doctor seriously, "And what trouble have you had with your nose and ears, my boy?"
"Well," answered Billy, "I always have trouble with them when I'm taking my jersey of, because the neck is very tight".

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