第六章 学会独自生活（下） （9分钟）

H 

1、Sometimes it rained for days and I had to stay at home. 

2、But I had plenty of bread, fresh meat,salted or dried meat, fish, eggs and milk to eat. 

3、I could read my books or write my diary. 

4、I also would do did some house work, such as baking bread or mending clothes. 

5、Rainy days were the most boring time for me. 

I 

1、One year I got sick for a period of time. 

2、I had to stay in bed for days and I felt very lonely. 

3、How I wished I had a person to talk with or even a pet. 

4、Later I caught a little wild dog and I tied her to a tree in the yard. 

5、I left her very hungry and then gave her a little food to eat every day. 

6、Gradually she became very obedient and loyal to me. 

7、The dog was then my good company. 

8、One and half years later, she left home and stayed away for several days. 

9、Several months later she had two baby dogs. 

10、In later years, the dogs made my life less lonely. 

J 

1、The island was not a small one, but in the first year I did not go far. 

2、Later I decided to go around the island. 

3、I went along a small river and found several interesting places. 

4、While I was away from home I had to stay in trees during the night. 

5、I got to the other side of the island and found it was a better place than where I lived. 

6、I spent two years building a new home in the better place for myself. 

7、I then had two homes on the island. 

K 

1、I had lived alone on the island for several years. 

2、The island was now my home, not my prison, but I never stopped thinking about escaping. 

3、I decided to build a canoe. 

4、I cut down a tree and worked on the tree trunk for several months to make a good canoe. 

5、Then I found it was too heavy, I could not move it to the water at all. 

6、I thought of digging a small river from the canoe to the beach, but then I found I would have to dig for many years. 

7、So I gave up. 

8、I thought I was very stupid and felt very annoyed for quite a long time. 

9、Later I built a smaller canoe which I often used to fish with.  

10、I did not want to escape in it because it was too small to survive a storm. 

L 

1、I made myself busy from morning till night. 

2、I worked hard in the house and in the field so that I had everything I needed for a life. 

3、I had bread, meat, fish, milk and eggs, as well as the clothes made from goat skin. 

4、Although my clothes looked strange, they kept me dry from the rain. 

5、Every year I visited different parts of the island and the two smaller islands. 

6、So nearly 20 years passed by like this.