The Selfish Giant: Part 2 Oscar Wilde (adapted+vocabulary)

Then the Spring came, and all over the country there were little blossoms and little birds. Only in the garden of the Selfish Giant it was still Winter. The birds did not want to sing in it as there were no children, and the trees forgot to blossom. The only people who were pleased were the Snow and the Frost. ‘Spring forgot this garden,’ they cried, ‘so we will live here all the year round.’ The Snow covered up the grass with her great white cloak, and the Frost painted all the trees silver. Then they invited the North Wind to stay with them, and he came. He was wrapped in furs, and he roared all day about the garden.

‘I cannot understand why the Spring is so late in coming,’ said the Selfish Giant, as he sat at the window and looked out at his cold white garden; ‘I hope there will be a change in the weather.’

But the Spring never came, nor the Summer. The Autumn gave golden fruit to every garden, but to the Giant’s garden she gave none. ‘He is too selfish,’ she said. So it was always Winter here, and the North Wind, and the Hail, and the Frost, and the Snow danced through the trees.

One morning the Giant was in his bed when he heard some lovely music. It sounded so sweet to his ears that he thought it must be the King’s musicians passing by. It was really only a little linnet singing outside his window, but as he had heard birds singing in his garden long ago and now this music was the most beautiful music in the world. Then the Hail stopped dancing over his head, and the North Wind ceased roaring, and a delicious perfume came to him through the open casement. ‘I believe the Spring has come at last,’ said the Giant; and he jumped out of bed and looked out.

Still -դեռ

Forget (forgot)-մոռանալ

To be pleased- գոհ լինել

Frost -սառնամանիք

Cover up -ծածկել

Cloak -թիկնոց

Paint -ներկել

Silver –արծաթե, արծաթ

North Wind – Հյուսիսային քամի

To be wrapped –փաթաթված լինել

Fur – մորթի, մորթեղեն

Roar -ոռնալ

Hail -կարկուտ

Through -միջով

Sound -հնչել

Pass by –անցնել մոտով

Linnet -կանեփահավ

Cease –դադարել, ավարտվել

Delicious – համեղ, հիանալի, անույշ

Perfume -հոտ

Casement –պատուհանի փեղկ

Believe – հավատալ

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