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12 The Happy Prince
Warm Up
● What is your idea of happiness?
● What are the things that make you happiest?
● What are the things that make you sad?
Reading skills
High above the city, on a tall
column, stood the statue of the
Happy Prince. He was gilded all
all over with thin leaves of fine
gold, for eyes he had two bright
sapphires, and a large red ruby
on his sword-hilt. He was very
much admired indeed.
“How beautiful indeed!” the
people said when they passed by.
“Why can’t you be like the Happy
Prince?” asked a sensible mother
of her little boy who was crying
for the moon. “The Happy Prince
never cries for anything.”
“I am glad there is someone in
the world who is happy,” muttered a disappointed man as he gazed at the wonderful statue.
“He looks just like an angel,” said the charity children as they came out of the cathedral in
their bright scarlet cloaks, and their clean white pinafores.
“How do you know?” said the mathematics master. “You have never seen one.”
“Ah! but we have, in our dreams,” answered the children, and the mathematics master
frowned and looked very severe, for he did not approve of children dreaming.
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