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There was a story about a very lucky man on the Australian TV news yesterday. He was cleaning out his car the other day, and he was looking at his shopping bags. He was surprised to find a lottery ticket that was more than one year old in one of the bags. He was going to throw it away, but he decided to check the number online. Was he surprised! He had a winning number. The ticket was worth more than one million Australian dollars. That’s about 90 million yen! He is very happy that he didn’t throw the ticket away. Isn’t cleaning wonderful when you find money!
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Notes:
mandarin orange 温州ミカン;
bulbul ヒヨドリ;
weasel イタチ;
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A friend of mine lives outside the city. Although his house is 20 minutes from the train station, I enjoy the walk to his house. There are little gardens here and there. At this time of year, the peach trees are starting to bloom. We can see mandarin oranges on the branches of other trees. I saw one tree full of birds. There must have been 50 bulbuls in that small tree. They were eating all the oranges! I kept walking along a path that followed a stream. Nature is not always kind to animals. I saw the body of a dead weasel floating down the stream. (by Prof. Douglas Jarrell)
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