Mrs. Brown lives in a small village. Her husband is dead. She has a son but no daughters. His name is John and he is twenty-five. After John finishes college (大学), he gets work in a big city, New York, and he lives there. It's quite a long way from his mother's home, and she is not happy about it. But John says, "There is no good work for me in this small village, Mother, and I can get a lot of money in New York. Then I can give much to you. "

    One day Mrs. Brown is very angry. She takes a train to her son's house in New York. Then she says to him. "John, why do you never call me?"

    "But mother," John laughs (笑) and says, "You don't have a telephone."

    "No," she says, "I haven't, but you have one."

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— ________, but I have to wash the dishes first.

    There are a lot of different cakes- fruit cakes, chocolate cakes, etc. Sometimes we buy them in a shop. Sometimes we make them ourselves.

We like cakes. We like Christmas cakes a lot. My mother often makes cakes for us at Christmas. And I often help her to make them. To make a Christmas cake, we need these things. Half a kilo of flour, 3 cups of milk, 4 eggs and some fruit, etc.

    Now we can make a cake with those things.