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Tips！ Use this video as a tool to improve your English by SHADOWING! ☛Video settings → playback speed '0.5' ＊＊＊＊＊ Seven Autumn Leaves From Fairyland by E. Cunningham ＊＊＊Full Text＊＊＊ Black Sneid ON a coast of Africa called Zanzibar, there was once a boy of the name of Sneid, as black as a piece of charcoal, and as mischievous as any ten white boys rolled into one. The family lived in a palm-tree grove, with a palm-leaf shed backed up against a rock on one side, and a brook of clear water from the hills on the other. Sneid could climb like a monkey, and run like an ostrich, and these two accomplishments saved him from a good many whippings. For he always had some piece of mischief to atone for, and a good acacia stick, with the thorns on, stood ready at all times for use on his tough little back, when he could be caught. At last, every one began to get tired of him. The family toes had been tied together in their sleep, the donkey pads had been stuck with thorns, salt water, instead of fresh, put in the coffee-pot; all once too often : and this family of black folks made up their minds to sell him and get rid of him. A stout old uncle who lived in a neighboring grove, and who thought it possibly a little discreditable to sell one’s near relation, called to discuss the matter, and a family council was held, upon which Sneid looked down from a lofty palm-tree, where he had been sent to pick cocoanuts, and to be out of the way. The old blackey was arguing Sneid’s case with great gesture and grimace, when plump came a small cocoanut down from on high, and striking his woolly head pitched him into the middle of the circle on his nose. It was of course Sneid’s work, who could not withstand the temptation of his venerable relative’s convenient situation, right beneath him. This convincing proof of his unfitness for civilized life settled his fate, and the next morning an Arab slave-ship happening to come coasting along, he was sold for a measure of coffee beans, and carried off, never to be seen by his affectionate family again. The little ship went coasting along, picking up likely slaves here and there, and Sneid now found out what hard work was, and how very little a black boy could live on. He had soon attracted unfavorable attention by trying, when no one was looking, to cut the halyards of the mainsail with a sharpened piece of iron, and his masters after that kept him out of mischief by keeping him at the oar. As for food, it looked as if they meant to try the experiment of his living on a date a day, they brought his allowance so low. The small bark, nothing more than a large boat, was beginning to be crowded, when one afternoon, as they were coasting along the shore of a desert-looking island, a violent storm came up, and they were in great danger of foundering. The slaves were set to work bailing, and all was in confusion, when Sneid, who could swim like a frog, slipped overboard and took his chance with the waves. Nobody even observed him, and after a hard struggle, and with a good deal of salt water in him, he reached the shore, quite exhausted. He lay on the sand till morning, and then began to look about for something to eat and drink. He had evidently come to a bad place for that. On all sides was sand, — nothing but sand. It ran up into hills inland, it bordered the blue sea as far as he could look on either hand. He climbed to the top of a hill with some difficulty, for tough as he naturally was, he was reduced to weakness by starvation. When he got there, he was rewarded by the sight of waving tops of trees, apparently growing in a hollow or valley among the hills. He staggered and crept along, with just enough strength in him to reach the side of the pool that filled the bottom of the hollow and gave life to the grove of trees that surrounded it. Water was plenty, and a broken cocoanut, only half eaten, lay upon the bank, and that was quite enough to bring Sneid’s hardy little body round again. He looked about and found that though the grove was small, there were both cocoanut and date palms, and plenty of fruit upon them. He had just concluded that there was no one to eat it but him, when he saw a large white monkey sitting among the branches, watching him. The monkey looked at Sneid and Sneid looked at the monkey for some time, when the last got slowly down, and walking up put some dates on the bank beside Sneid, without any other sign of friendliness. He sat himself a little way off, with a very composed face, while Sneid ate the dates. Sneid had never seen a white monkey, and, as he ate, he was wondering how such a white hide felt to the wearer. ............... ＊＊＊＊＊ The location of the original audio file: https://librivox.org/seven-autumn-lea... Read by Evan Smith ＊＊＊＊＊ #EnglishWithSubtitles#EnglishReading#Shadowing