Put the words into the correct order

1. on / once / a greate / yonder / temple / stood / hill

2. our / heights / eager / surveyed / eyes / the island / from / the life

3. yet / these / let us / marvels / you / will be / of what / the future / for / tell

4. will pray / those / for water / in the / deserts

5. we / all / will be / you / so / this / tell

6. be satisfied / yet / will not / trumans

7. two/lived/there/people

'BOY. Tales of Childhood' by R.Dahl

Homesickness

I was homesickness during the whole of my first term at St. Peter's. Homesickness is a bit like seasickness. You don't know how it is till you get it, and when you do, it hits you right in the top of the stomach and you want to die. The only comfort is that both homesickness and seasickness are instantly curable.

I was so devastating homesick during my first two weeks that I set about devising a stunt for getting myself sent back home, even if it were only a few days. My idea was that I should all of a sudden develop an attack of acute appendicitis.

Only a month before, my sister, who was twelve years older than me, had actually had appendicitis. I noticed that the things she complained about most was a severe pain down in the lower right side of her tummy. As well as this, she kept being sick and refused to eat and ran a temperature. So, you might be interested to know that this sister had her appendix removed not in a fine hospital operation - room but on our own nursery table at home by the doctor. The next day, I was allowed to inspect the appendix itself in a glass bottle. It was a black wormy - looking thing.

I tried to realize my plan!!

The first person who noticed my problems was the Matron. She shouted and began prodding my tummy violently with her fingers. I was watching her carefully and when she hit what I guessed was the appendix place, I let out a yelp: 'Ou! Ou! ' This was the right move. I saw her hesitate. She may have been a foul and beastly woman, but she had had a nurse's training and she didn't want a ruptured appendix on her hands.

Within an hour, the doctor arrived. He went through the same prodding and I yelped again. Then he put a thermometer in my mouth. The doctor said, that it read normal! After he had a conversation with the Matron, he telephoned my mother. I was taken home across the Bristol Channel and I felt so wonderful at being away from, that dreaded school. That afternoon I had a session with Dr. Dunbar at his surgery and I tried the same tricks all over again. But Dr. Dunbar was far wiser and more skilful than either the Matron.

After he had prodded my stomach and I had done my yelping routine, he said: 'You are faking, aren't you? '. I wanted to know how he guessed it. The doctor explained that my stomach was perfectly normal; also if I had had an inflammation down there, the stomach would have been hard and rigid.

The doctor begged me not to blame my mother for sending me away to boarding -school; he added that 'life is tough, and the sooner I learn how to cope with it better for me!! '

I promised that I wouldn't cheat again. I just didn't want to trouble my mother.

Glossary:

devastate- спустошити, знищити

divide- ділити

stunt- трюк, фокус

tummy- живіт

prod- тикати

hesitate- вагатись

inflammation- запалення

rigid- суворий, жорсткий

blame- провина, звинувачувати

cheat- обман, обманювати

surgery- операційна

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