The Selfish Giant: Part 3 Oscar Wilde (adapted+vocabulary)

What did he see?

He saw a most wonderful sight. The children had crept in through a little hole in the wall, and they were sitting in the branches of the trees. There was a little child in every tree. And the trees blossomed again. The birds were flying about and twittering with delight, and the flowers were looking up through the green grass and laughing. It was a lovely scene, only in one corner it was still Winter. It was the farthest corner of the garden, and a little boy was standing there. He was so small that he could not reach up to the branches of the tree, and he was wandering all round it, crying bitterly. The poor tree was still covered with frost and snow. ‘Climb up! little boy,’ said the Tree; but the little boy was too tiny.

And the Giant’s heart melted as he looked out. ‘How selfish I was!’ he said; ‘now I know why the Spring did not come here. I will put that poor little boy on the top of the tree, and then I will knock down the wall, and my garden shall be the children’s playground forever and ever.’ He was really very sorry for what he had done.

So he went downstairs and opened the front door very softly, and went out into the garden. But when the children saw him they were so frightened that they all ran away and the garden became Winter again. Only the little boy did not run. His eyes were so full of tears that he did not see the Giant coming. And the Giant stood behind him and took him gently in his hand, and put him up into the tree. And the tree blossomed at once, and the birds came and sang on it, and the little boy stretched out his two arms and hugged the Giant’s neck, and kissed him. And the other children, when they saw that the Giant was not wicked any longer, ran back, and with them came the Spring. ‘It is your garden now, little children,’ said the Giant, and he took a great axe and knocked down the wall. And when the people were going to market at twelve o’clock they saw the Giant playing with the children in the most beautiful garden they had ever seen.

Wonderful -հրաշալի

Sight -տեսարան

Creep in (crept in) – ներս սողոսկել

Hole –անցք, ծակ

Branch -ճյուղ

Twitter –ծլվլալ

Delight – բերկրանք

Laugh -ծիծաղել

Lovely scene – գեղեցիկ տեսարան

Corner -անկյուն

Farthest –հեռավոր, ամենահեռու

Reach up -հասնել

Bitterly -դառնորեն

Climb up -բարձրանալ

Tiny -փոքրիկ

Melt -հալչել

Look out –դուրս նայել

knock down -ջարդել

playground -խաղահրապարակ

forever and ever –ընդմիշտ, հավետ

downstairs –ներքև

front door – մուտքի դուռ

to be frightened – վախեցած լինել

tear -արցունք

behind – հետևում

gently – քնշությամբ

at once – միանգամից

stretch out -ձգել

hug -գրկել

wicked -չար

any longer –այլևս

axe- կացին

market -շուկա

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