Exercise 9B, page 17.0:00
Good morning, little hands.0:09
And how have you been all winter?0:12
Well, really, it is very good of you to ask.0:15
I am afraid I had rather a hard time of it.0:20
But now the spring has come and I am quite happy.0:24
And all my flowers are doing well.0:27
We often talked of you during the winter, Hans, and wondered how you were getting on.0:30
That was kind of you.0:35
I was half afraid you had forgotten me.0:37
Hans, I am surprised at you.0:39
Friendship never forgets.0:42
How lovely your primroses are looking, by the way.0:45
They are certainly very lovely.0:48
And it is a most lucky thing for me that I have so many.0:50
I am going to bring them into the market and sell them them to the burgomaster's daughter and buy back my wheelbarrow with the money.0:55
Buy back your wheelbarrow?1:02
You don't mean to say you have sold it?1:05
What a very stupid thing to do.1:08
Well, you see, the winter was a very bad time for me.1:10
And I really had no money at all to buy bread with.1:15
So I first sold the silver buttons off my Sunday coat.1:19
And then I sold my silver chain.1:24
And lastly I sold my wheelbarrow.1:26
But I am going to buy them all back again.1:30
Now, Hans, I will give you my wheelbarrow.1:33
It is not in very good repair indeed.1:37
One side is gone and there is something wrong with the wheel spokes.1:39
But in spite of that, I will give it to you.1:43
I think that generosity is the essence of friendship.1:46
And besides, I have got a new wheelbarrow for myself.1:50
Well, really, that is generous of you.1:53
I can easily repair it as I have a plank of wood in the house.1:57
Why, that is just what I want for the roof of my barn.2:04
There is a very large hole in it and the corn will all get damp if I don't stop it up.2:08
How lucky you mentioned it.2:14
I have given you my wheelbarrow and now you are going to give me your plank.2:16
And I will set to work at my barn this very day.2:23
Certainly it is not a very big plank.2:26
And I am afraid that after I have mended my barn roof, there won't be any left for you to mend the wheelbarrow with.2:29
But of course, that is not my fault.2:35
And now, as I have given you my wheelbarrow, I am sure you would like to give me some flowers in return.2:38
Here is the basket, and mind you fill it quite full.2:45
Well, really, as I have given you my wheelbarrow, I don't think that it is much to ask you for a few flowers.2:50
I may be wrong, but I should have thought that friendship, true friendship, was quite free from selfishness of any kind.2:56
My dear friend, my best friend.3:03
You are welcome to all the flowers in my garden.3:07
I would much sooner have your good opinion than my silver buttons any day.3:11
Goodbye, little Hans.3:16
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