Short Stories in English

1 When I was a student I lived with a farmer and his wife. The first day I was there, one of the chickens died and we had chicken soup for dinner. The second day a sheep died and we had lamb chops. The following day a duck died and we had roast duck. The next day the farmer died, so I decided to leave. 2 At a show a very strong man squeezed an orange hard and then shouted to the audience: “I will give $30 to the person who can get any more juice out of this orange.” Three very big men tried but none of them could get any more juice out of the orange. Then a thin, old man picked it up. When he squeezed it, five drops of juice dripped from it. The three big men were amazed and asked the old man: “How did you do that?” I worked as a tax inspector. 3 You’re wearing your wedding ring on the wrong finger. I know. I married the wrong man. 4 Do you know how my grandmother stopped my grandfather biting his fingernails? She smashed his false teeth. 5 Mum, Aunt

1 What type of car does your dad drive? I don’t know the name, but it starts with a ‘P’. That’s strange; our car starts with a key.

Once there lived a man who said to his friends that he could stay in the open all night without a fire to warm him. “Well, do it,” his friends said to him, “but if you find you can’t do it after all, you must give us all a fine dinner.” So one cold night he went outdoors and began his long wait.Several hours passed, and the cold became too much for him. Seeing a light at the end of the street the man walked to it and found a candle in the window of a house. He warmed his hands as well as he could by the candle light, and in the morning he returned to his friends. He had to tell them about the candle. “Ah,” they said,” but a candle gives off heat.” And they asked for the dinner. The night of the dinner came. The man went into the kitchen to cook the dinner and his friends waited. Several hours passed, but there was still no food. “Why is he taking so long?” said one of the hungry friends. “Let us go and see.”  They went into the kitchen and saw a large cooking