There were children playing in the
yard. One child ran over to the tree and pulled off the star on top. The branches of the tree crackled under the child's footsteps. The servants chopped the tree and placed it in the |
The tree thought about his wonderful past. He missed the forest, the sunbeams and all his friends.
"The past is the past" he thought.
The life of the tree is past and so is this story.
ran over | passé du verbe to run over: renverser en courant |
crackled |
passé du verbe to crackell: craquer | |
footsteps | des pas | chopped | c'est le passé du verbe to chop: couper à la hache | |
fireplace | foyer | past | le passé | |
missed | passé du verbe to miss: s'ennuyer He missed his friends: il s'ennuyait de ses amis |