①The Prisoner Was Not Let In
There is a prison in Iceland, which allows its Prisoner to go out to work every day whit any guards. They work on the farm near the prison during the day, and come back to have to promise to come back evening. If they do not promise this, they are not let out.
One night, one of the prisoners was invite to have a dinner with the family he was working for, so he came back to the prison very late. He had to knock at the gate several times before the guard came to let him in.
The guard did not like being trouble at this time, so he said to the prisoner angrily, “If you come back so late again, I won't let you go."
②A Cheap Meal
A man goes into a restaurant and sits down at the table. A waiter comes up and gives him the menu. The man reads it carefully, and then he orders all the most expensive dishes.
Then a small boy comes into the restaurant and sits at the man’s table.
The waiter says, “What will your little boy like, sir?”
“Oh,just an ice-cream,” the man says. After he finishes his meal, the man says to the waiter, “I’ m just going out to buy a newspaper.”
He leaves the restaurant. The waiter gives the boy an ice cream. The boy eats it, and then stands up and walks to the door.
The waiter runs towards him. “Excuse me,” he says, “but your father hasn’t come back and he hasn’t paid for his meal or your ice-cream. You’d better stay here until your father comes back and pays his bill.”
“He’s not my father,” the boy says. “The man came up to me in the street and asked me if I liked ice-cream. I told him I did.Then he told me to come into the restaurant at 2 o’clock and sit down at his table. He said he would give me one.”