"When I was a young man, I worked for a large importing company in New York. At that time I was in love with a pretty girl, and she told me that she

Dear Betty. thank you for your letter. It was interesting to know about your school and your uniform. I would like to tell you some things about my school. You know in England schools have names not numbers . Well, I go to Cedar Grove School. It^s not very big. Pupils from 5 to 11 years old go to our school. We have ten classrooms and there is a big beatiful hall in it. We have many trees and flowers near our school and so, when it is warm and the weather is line we are often outdoors.
My classroom is comfortable and always clean. There are twenty desks in it. The teacher^s table is near the window. There are three windows in our classroom which are white as is the door. The blackboard and the floor are brown. There are nice pictures on the walls and you can see a big, yellow bookcase near the blackboard. There are many books in class and sometimes our teacher reads them to us. Yesterday she read a very beatiful fairy-tail about Snow-White. I liked it a lot. What can you write and tell me about your classroom? Do you read English books in your Readng class? What books did you read last week? Write soon. Lots of love, Alice.

A merry group of friends was sitting on the terrace of a restaurant. The table was laid for four: two men and two women. The group of friends was eating
fish and when dinner was finished one of the women said that very often diamonds and pearls were found inside fish. Everybody liked this topic, and they all remembered different stories about dinamonds and fish.
An old man who was sitting in the corner of the terrace came up to the group of friends. He said that he had heard their conversation and wanted to tell them a real story about fish. Everybody agreed, so the old man continued: "When I was a young man, I worked for a large importing company in New York. At that time I was in love with a pretty girl, and she told me that she loved me too. About two months before we got married I had to go to England. I left my girlfriend in New York and promised to write to her. She said that she'd wait for me. I had to stay in England longer than I'd planned, but finally i was ready to go back to New York. Just before my trip home, I had bought a very expensive diamond ring. It was a present for my future wife.
"On my way home to New York, I read in the morning paper that my girl was marrying another man. It made me so angry that I threw the ring into the sea."
"A few days later when I was in a restaurant in New York, fish was served. While I was eating it, I felt something hard in my mouth. What do you think it was?"
"The diamond ring!" cried the friends.
"No," said the old gentleman, "it was a fish bone."