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Рудольф Эрих Распе. The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen / Приключения барона Мюнхгаузена. Уровень 1
Rudolph Erich Raspe. The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
The Cucumber-Gatherers
The Crocodile and the Lion
The Baron and His Horse
The Baron and the Wolf
Fifty Ducks Destroyed By One Shot
The Baron and the Black Fox
Amazing Hunting
Wild Pigs are Dangerous
Saint Hubert’s Stag
An Amazing Eight-Legged Hare
The Baron and the Bear
The Wolf, Which the Baron Turns Inside Out[15]
The Mad Fur Coat
My Favourite Hound
The Baron’s Horse
Baron Munchausen Rides a Cannon Ball[20]
Baron Munchausen Pulls Himself out of a Mire by His Own Hair
The Baron On The Moon
A Balloon Over Constantinople
A Carriage in a Narrow Road
On a Voyage to North America
The Baron Bathes in the Mediterranean
Wonderful Servants
Chinese Wine
The Overflowing of the Nile
The Siege of Gibraltar
Munchausen Alone Saves Gibraltar
A Bomb Upon a Table
The History of the Sling
The Baron Attacks Two Large Bears
The Baron Wins a Hundred Guineas
A Second Trip to the Moon
The Baron Crosses the Thames
A Visit to Mount Etna
An Island of Cheese, Surrounded by a Sea of Milk
The Ship Slips Between the Teeth of a Huge Fish
A Wonderful Waistcoat
Extraordinary Flight on the Back of an Eagle
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Baron Munchausen is a famous German nobleman. He likes to talk about his wonderful adventures. His exploits focus on his great achievements as a great hunter, soldier, and traveller. Of course, he is the most truthful and resourceful person in the world!
We sailed from Amsterdam. A storm tore up by the roots many trees of enormous bulk and height, in an island where we lay at anchor to take in wood and water. Some of these trees weighed many tons, yet the wind carried them so amazingly high, that they appeared like the feathers of small birds in the air. They were at least five miles above the earth. However, as soon as the storm subsided they all fell perpendicularly into their places, and took root again, except the largest tree. When that tree was in the air, it had a man and his wife upon its branches. They were gathering cucumbers. In this part of the globe that useful vegetable grows upon trees.
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I was not always successful. I had the misfortune to be a prisoner of war; and, what is worse, I was sold for a slave. My daily task was not very hard and laborious, but rather irksome. It was to drive the Sultan’s bees every morning to their pasture-grounds, to attend them all the day long, and at night to drive them back to their hives.
One evening I missed a bee. Two bears caught it to tear it to pieces for the honey it carried. I had nothing in my hands but the silver hatchet, which the Sultan’s gardeners and farmers possessed. I threw it at the bears, with an intention to frighten them away. But the hatchet flew upwards, and continued rising till it reached the moon. How could I recover it? How could I fetch it down again?
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