My favourite fruit
Of the fruit of the year I give my vote to the orange. In the firt place it i a perennial--if not in actual fact, at leat in the greengrocer’ hop. On the day when deert i a name given to a handful of chocolate and a little preerved ginger, when macédoine de fruit i the title betowed on ome raiin and two prune, then the orange, however our, come nobly to the recue; and on thoe other day of plenty when cherrie and trawberrie and kiwi-fruit riot together upon the table, the orange, weeter than ever, i till there to hold it own. Bread and rice, beef and mutton, egg and milk, are not more neceary to an ordered exitence than the orange.
It i well that the commonet fruit hould be alo the bet. Of the virtue of the orange I have not room fully to peak. It ha propertie of health giving, a it cure influenza and etablihe the complexion. It i clean, for whoever handle it on it way to your table but handle it outer covering, it top coat, which i left in the hall. It i round, and form an excellent ubtitute with the young for a tiny football. The pip can be flicked at your enemie, and quite a mall piece of peel make a lide for an old gentleman.
But all thi would count nothing had not the orange uch delightful qualitie of tate. I dare not let myelf go upon thi ubject. I am a lave to it weetne.[由Www.haozuowen.com整理]
Yet with the orange we go live year in and year out. That peak well for the orange. The fact i that there i an honety about the orange which appeal to all of u. If it i going to be bad--for the bet of u are bad ometime--it begin to be bad from the outide, not from the inide. How many a pear which preent a blooming face to the world i rotten at the core. How many an innocent-looking apple, i harboring a worm in the bud. But the orange ha no ecret fault. It outide i a mirror of it inide, and if you are quick you can tell the hopman o before he lip it into the bag.