JULES VERNE- THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND CHAPTER 20 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | JULES VERNE THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND CHAPTER 20 The winter season set in with the month of June which corresponds with the month of December in the Northern Hemisphere. It began with showers and squalls which succeeded each other without intermission. The tenants of Granite House could appreciate the advantages of a dwelling which sheltered them from the inclement weather. The Chimneys would have been quite insufficient to protect them against the rigor of winter and it was to be feared that the high tides would make another irruption. Cyrus Harding had taken precautions against this contingency so as to preserve as much as possible the forge and furnace which were established there. During the whole of the month of June the time was employed in different occupations which excluded neither hunting nor fishing the larder being therefore abundantly supplied. Pencroft so soon as he had leisure proposed to set some traps from which he expected great results. He soon made some snares with creepers by the aid of which the warren henceforth every day furnished its quota of rodents. Neb employed nearly all his time in salting or smoking meat which insured their always having plenty of provisions. The question of clothes was now seriously discussed the settlers having no other garments than those they wore when the balloon threw them on the island. These clothes were warm and good they had taken great care of them as well as of their linen and they were perfectly whole but they would soon need to be replaced. Moreover if the winter was severe the settlers would suffer greatly from cold. On this subject the ingenuity of Harding was at fault. They must provide for their most pressing wants settle their dwelling and lay in a store of food thus the cold might come upon them before the question of clothes had been settled. They must therefore make up their minds to pass this first winter without additional clothing. When the fine season came round again they would regularly hunt .
