Promissory Notes

• 作者: Ben Watson 张社列
• 来源期刊: 语言教育
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: AFTERNOON behind WONDER SPIRIT FLOWERS AUTUMN Notes prepare FATHER something
• 年，卷（期）: 1998,（5）
• 页码范围: 35-36
• 页数: 2页
• 分类号: H319.4

摘要

<正> Late on a chilly autumn afternoon,I start digging on thelittle slope behind my house.A bale of peat,a bag of bonemeaP and a barrowload of rich,black composts prepare therooty soil for bulbs.I wonder why I am bothering to plant these flowers ofspring and summer—tulips,narcissuses and lilies.I don’t ownthis land or the old house that sits on it.Fortunately the land-lords indulges my gardening whims in the spirit of home im-