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صفحة: 19
Read the following simplified excerpt from Dickens ' s essay . As you read , identify the sentences that go with each of the cells of the comic strip on page 18 . Omnibuses — from Sketches by Boz Charles Dickens 1 As we get into the city a little before ten , four or five of our party are regular passengers . We always take them up at the same places , and they generally occupy the same seats ; they are always dressed in the same manner , and invariably discuss the same topics — the increasing rapidity of cabs , and the disregard of moral obligations shown by omnibus drivers . There is a little bad-tempered old man , with a powdered head , who always sits on the right-hand side of the door as you enter , with his hands folded on the top of his umbrella . He is extremely impatient , and sits there for the purpose of keeping a sharp eye on the cad , with whom he generally holds a running dialogue . He is very bossy in helping people in and out , and always 10 volunteers to give the cad a poke with his umbrella , when anyone wants to get off . He usually recommends ladies to have sixpence ready , to prevent delay ; and if anybody puts a window down that he can reach , he immediately puts it up again . "Now , what are you stopping for ? " says the little man every morning , the moment there is the slightest indication of pulling up * at the corner of Regent Street , when 15 some such dialogue as the following takes place between him and the cad . "What are you stopping for ? " Here the cad whistles , and pretends not to hear the question . "I say [ a poke ] , what are you stopping for ?" "For passengers , sir . Ba - nk . - Ty . " 20 "I know you ' re stopping for passengers ; but you ' ve no business to do so . WHY are you stopping ?" "Why , sir , that's a difficult question . I think it is because we prefer stopping here to going on . " "Now mind , " exclaims the little old man , forcefully , "I'll pull you up * tomorrow ; 25 I've often threatened to do it ; now I will . " "Thankee , sir , " replies the cad , touching his hat with a pretended expression of thanks , "' werry * much obliged to you indeed , sir . " Here the young men in the omnibus laugh very heartily , and the old gentleman gets very red in the face , and seems extremely annoyed . 30 The stout gentleman in the white neckcloth says that something must shortly be done with these fellows , or there ' s no saying where all this will end ; and the shabby-genteel * man with the green bag , expresses his entire agreement in the opinion , as he has done regularly every morning for the last six months . As we arrive in the vicinity of Lincoln ' s-lnn-Fields , Bedford Row , and other legal 35 haunts , we drop a great many of our original passengers , and take up fresh ones , who meet with a rather bad-tempered reception . Conversation is now entirely dropped ; each person gazes vacantly through the window in front of him , and everybody thinks that his opposite neighbour * is 39 staring at him . * pulling up — stopping ( a car , bus or other means of transportation ) . * pull you up — report you ; criticize you . *' werry — this is how the cad says "very . " * shabby — dressed in old worn-out clothes ; genteel — from the upper class . * This is the British English spelling . It is spelled "neighbor" in American English .
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