Huck is my name, Huckleberry Finn. The story started when my best friend, Tom Sawyer and I found $12, 000 in a cave. That money made us rich. We got $6, 000 each. Judge Thatcher, an important man in St. Petersburg, put it in the bank, and now we get a dollar a day interest (利息）.

Then a kind old lady called Widow Douglas invited me to live with her because I haven’t got a family or a home. My mother died a long time ago, then my dad, Pap, disappeared. He was a violent (狂暴的) man especially when he drank a lot, which was most of the time, and he often beat me. I was scared of him. I didn’t go to school like the other boys of my age. I lived on the streets and in the woods.

My life changed after I lived with the widow (寡妇). She gave me a bed to sleep in and bought new clothes for me. She read stories to me and taught me how to eat at a table. But then her sister Miss Watson arrived. She brought her black slave (奴隶) Jim with her. I liked Jim but I didn’t like Miss Watson very much. She often shouted at me.

Widow Douglas sent me to school every day. I didn’t like going there at first because learning was very difficult. But when I could read and write a bit, I didn’t mind going.

The months passed and winter came. The weather got cold. One morning I woke up and there was snow on the ground. On my way to school, I saw some footprints outside the widow’s house. There was a cross on the heel (脚后跟) of the left one. My heart jumped. Only one person wore boots with a cross on the left head! Pap!

“He’s heard about my money,” I thought. “And he wants it!”

That night I went to see Jim. Jim had a magic ball made of animal hair. There was a spirit inside the ball that could answer people’s questions about the future.

8 . My older sister is a runner. She has always loved to run. She runs the 10-kilometre race. She’s a great runner. She used to be a pretty good sprinter, but one day all of that changed because of a little mistake she made.

She went to practice early in the morning. She was about to take off her running shoes when she realized she had forgotten her sprinting shoes. Sprinting shoes are special because they’re small, light and have spikes on the bottom.

When her coach found out that she had forgotten her sprinting shoes he got mad. He ordered her to run laps around the track. So, off she went. Soon, she was running with other people who were on their long-distance practice runs.

The runners were moving fast. It surprised the coach to see that this girl could keep up. The long-distance coach asked the sprinting coach, “Who is that?” “That’s one of my sprinters,” he said. The two coaches were shocked to see the group of runners coming around the final corner with my sister in the lead!

Another girl was close to her for a while, but because of her sprinting ability, my sister seemed to just pull away from her. Her first time running a long-distance race and she came in first! The two coaches approached my sister. They were about to congratulate her when they looked down and realized she wasn’t wearing any shoes!

“Well, you told me to run and I thought you meant right away, so I just got up and ran,” she explained. “I can’t believe how comfortable it is to run without my feet stuffed inside those little sprinting shoes.”

From that moment on, my sister’s sprinting days were over. She was a natural long-distance runner. She works hard and hopes to go to the Olympics one day. Who knows what might happen?

Who would have guessed that a little mistake would take my sister from being a good sprinter to being a great long-distance runner?