Contents 1
（Part One） 1
1．A Thoughtful Boy 1
2．“A Good Boy” 3
3．The Catching of a Thief 5
4．Is It Very Expensive? 8
5．George Washington and His Hatchet 10
6．The First Money Mark Twain Earned 14
7．A Clever Boy 17
8．Sylvia Greenwood s Childhood 19
9．How to Do It Politely? 23
10．Which Is More Important? 27
11．A Sad Story 30
12．Giving Way 32
13．The Clockmaker and the Timekeeper 34
14．A Cure for a Headache 37
15．Planting Garlic 39
16．When a Hotel Was on Fire? 42
17．The Smell and the Shadow 45
18．Beautiful Hands 49
19．The Lion and the Mouse 52
20．The Wisdome of a Fox 54
21．The Three Axes 57
22．Professor Forgetmuch 61
23．What a Pencil Can Do? 63
24．If He Knew 66
25．Ali and His Donkeys 70
26．Two Tramps and the President 73
27．A Porier Or a Policeman 75
28．Looking for the Ring 77
29．A Passenger 80
30．Going to the Cinema 83
31．What Will You Do? 86
32．Study as Lenin Studied 89
33．George Bernard Shaw 91
34．How Napoleon Crossed the Alps? 95
35．Galileo s First Discovery 99
36．The Story of Dr.Drew 101
37．Night in New York 105
38．Money Problem 109
39．Fleet Street 112
40．Speaker Corner in Hyde Park 114
41．White House 116
42．Number 118
43．Water 120
44．Fire Making 123
45．How to Put out a Fire? 126
46．The Sky 129
47．How the Weather Is Made by Heat? 131
48．Can People Really Make Rain? 133
49．Air Pressure 136
50．The“Dog Days” 138
51．Helicopter 140
52．Making Cars 143
53．Energy 146
54．The Riches in the Ocean 148
55．Blood to Save Lives 151
56．Sneezing Champion 154
57．The First Postage Stamp 156
58．Are Bats Really Blind? 159
59．The Meaning of Meetings 163
60．On Reading 166