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Let’s eat breakfast

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Reading

Read the following extract from “Cranford” by Mrs. Gaskell and retell it as if you were telling a friend one of your own experiences.

In a few minutes tea was brought. Very delicate was the china, very old the plate, very thin the bread and butter, and very small the lumps of sugar. Sugar was evidently Mrs. Jamieson’s favourite economy. I wonder if the little silver sugar-tongs could have opened themselves wide enough to take up an honest, vulgar, good-sized piece; and when I tried to seize two little pieces at once, so as not to be detected in too many returns to the sugar-basin, they absolutely dropped one, with a little sharp clatter, quite in a malicious and unnatural manner.

But before this happened, we had had a slight disappointment. In the little silver jug was cream, in the larger one was milk. As soon as the butler came in, Mrs. Jamieson’s pet dog, Carlo, began to beg, which was a thing our manners forbade us to do, though I am sure we were just as hungry; and Mrs. Jamieson said she was certain we would excuse her if she gave her poor dumb Carlo his tea first. She accordingly mixed a saucerful for him, and put it down for him to Jap; and then she told us how intelligent and sensible the dear little fellow was; he knew cream quite well, and constantly refused tea with only milk in it; so the milk was left for us; but we silently thought we were quite as intelli­gent and sensible as Carlo, and felt as if insult were ad­ded to injury when we were called upon to admire the gratitude evinced by his wagging his tail for the cream which should have been ours.