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I'm smaller than everyone
else my age. When I walk in the halls at school, I have to squeeze in between
the bigger kids to get by. At the playground, sometimes even little kids try to
boss me around. Mia, my best friend, is so tall that when she walks, I have to
jog to keep up with her.
I used to try to make
myself taller whenever I could. My posture was perfect, straight as an arrow. I
hung from the tree in our backyard to stretch out my arms and legs. I even ate
all my vegetables. Every day I measured myself, but I was the same height every
time. Frustrating!
"Don't worry,"
Mom always said. "Being small has its advantages." "Really? I
could never notice any."
One day, Mrs. Alvarez announced
to the class that we'd be putting on a spring play. I practiced all the lines.
But at the audition (试演), when I walked up to the
stage, Mrs. Alvarez cried, "You'll be perfect as the elf (小精灵)! You're just the right size for the costume." I even never
got a chance to deliver the practiced lines. Back home I grumbled (咕哝) to mum that I was made an elf. But she bet I would be the best
elf. To please her, I went to rehearsals (排练), though I only had two
lines.
Mia got the lead role-a
girl wandering through a magical fairy forest in search of her lost dog. In the
last scene, she finds a box under a giant mushroom, and when she opens it, her
dog jumps out. Mrs. Alvarez's dog, Prince, played the dog role. She brought him
to all the rehearsals, and when he wasn't onstage, we got to play with him, but
he seemed to like me best.
The night of the show, my
first line came early, "Let's ask the Fairy Queen!" Since my only
other line was toward the end, I waited offstage, playing with Prince.
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Finally, the grand end
came, and Prince was brought onstage inside the box.
……
"How can we get Prince
out from beneath the stage?" Mrs. Alvarez asked.
答案: Finally, the grand end came, and Prince was brought onstage inside the box. He was meek and cooperated well with the actors on stage. He jumped out as it was planned in the plot. He jumped into the giant mushroom, which fell over accidentally. Everyone present there were shocked by the scene and were worried that Prince might got hurt. In a panic, Prince leaped off the stage and disappeared underneath it. Mrs. Alvarez called him, but he whimpered and wouldn't come out. "How can we get Prince out from beneath the stage?" Mrs. Alvarez asked. "I'm small enough to get him." I said. I crawled under the stage through the dust and the cobwebs until I reached him. Prince licked my face. When we came out, the audience clapped and cheered. In face, we got more applause than the stars at the end of the show. My parents were proud and so was I. After that, I stopped worrying so much about my size. In fact, I decided that mom was right and being small has its perks.