MY READINGS: "MR HARRIS AND THE NIGHT TRAIN"

FURR, Mark: Stories for Reading Circles. Bookworms Club BRONZE. Oxford University Press, 2007

BASSET, Jennifer: Mr Harris and the Night Train

In the story Mr Harris travels by train to go to Oulu in Finland. In his carriage two people came in. Mr Harris looks at Elena and Carl arguing about a diamond necklace. Elena di Saronelli is a young woman. She is Carl's little sister . She has dark eyes and black hair. She is very beautiful. She is half-Italian, half-Finnish. Finally, Elena killed Carl and Mr Harris ran away along the corridor to lokk for the guard. The guard tells the story of Elena di Saronelli and Carl. The guard told Mr. Harris saw in September the ghosts of Elena and Carl came on the train.

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MY READINGS: "THE LITTLE HUNTERS AT THE LAKE" by Yalvac Ural

FURR, Mark: Stories for Reading Circles. Bookworms Club BRONZE. Oxford University Press, 2007

(Yalvac Ural from Turkey)
Author of The Little Hunters at the Lake in Meaning of Gifts: Stories from Turkey

The story is about a group of boys that want to be hunters. Hikmet secretly borrows his father's big hunting gun and he and his friends go down to the lake. They shoot a crane bird which is a symbol of love.They can't eat the bird so they bury it near the lake.

When it is Spring they go back to the crane's grave and find its partner dead on the grave. Hunters never shoot crane birds.

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