SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY Sociology In Serge And Straw Đây là một serries truyện ngắn anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng quen thuộc. Nhằm giúp các em và các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh | SHORT STORY BY O HENRY Sociology In Serge And Straw The season of irresponsibility is at hand. Come let us twine round our brows wreaths of poison ivy that is for idiocy and wander hand in hand with sociology in the summer fields. Likely as not the world is flat. The wise men have tried to prove that it is round with indifferent success. They pointed out to us a ship going to sea and bade us observe that at length the convexity of the earth hid from our view all but the vessel s topmast. But we picked up a telescope and looked and saw the decks and hull again. Then the wise men said Oh pshaw anyhow the variation of the intersection of the equator and the ecliptic proves it. We could not see this through our telescope so we remained silent. But it stands to reason that if the world were round the queues of China-Men would stand straight up from their heads instead of hanging down their backs as travellers assure us they do. Another hot-weather corroboration of the flat theory is the fact that all of life as we know it moves in little unavailing circles. More justly than to anything else it can be likened to the game of baseball. Crack we hit the ball and away we go. If we earn a run in life we call it success we get back to the home plate and sit upon a bench. If we are thrown out we walk back to the home plate -- and sit upon a bench. The circumnavigators of the alleged globe may have sailed the rim of a watery circle back to the same port again. The truly great return at the high tide of their attainments to the simplicity of a child. The billionaire sits down at his mahogany to his bowl of bread and milk. When you reach the end of your career just take down the sign Goal and look at the other side of it. You will find Beginning Point there. It has been reversed while you were going around the track. But this is humour and must be stopped. Let us get back to the serious questions that arise whenever Sociology turns summer boarder. You are invited to consider the .
