The tale of horribly good

Once upon a time, a long time ago there was a little girl called Bertha. She was always well-behaved and worked hard at school to please her parents and her teachers. She was never late, never dirty, never rude, and never told lies.

She wasn’t pretty at all. She was just horribly good. Bertha was so good that she won three gold medals. One said Never Late, one said Always Polite, and the third said Best Child in the World.

Anyway, Bertha was so good that the king invited her to his palace. So she put on her best clean white dress and she pinned her three medals to the front, and she walked through the woods to the king’s palace. But in the woods there lived a big hungry wolf. He saw Bertha’s lovely white dress through the trees and he heard the medals clinking together as she walked.

“Aha!” thought the wolf. “Lunch!” And he started to move quickly but quietly through the trees toward Bertha.”

“Oh, no!” cried the children. “Is he going to eat Bertha?”

“Yes, of course”. Bertha tried to run away, but she couldn’t run fast because the medals were so heavy. The wolf caught her easily and he ate everything, every bit of Bertha, except her three medals”.

Fonte: SOARS, L.; SOARS, J. American headway 1. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Moral da história: bonzinho só se fode…rzz

Resumo da história: Era uma vez uma menina muito boazinha, estudiosa e aplicada. Ela não era bonita, mas era tão boa que ganhou 3 medalhas por suas qualidades. Ela era tão boa que até o rei quis conhecê-la, por isso a convidou para visitar o seu palácio. Ela vestiu seu mais belo vestido e colocou as medalhas no pescoço e seguiu pela floresta para ir ao palácio. Porém, nessa floresta vivia um lobo feroz e faminto que a viu pelo seu vestido e pelo barulho das medalhas. Ele resolveu comê-la e foi atrás da menina. Ela até tentou fugir correndo, mas o peso das medalhas não permitia que ela fosse mais rápida. Então o lobo a alcançou e devorou-a inteirinha, menos as suas 3 medalhas.