Les Champignons (Conversation Exercise)

Let us go now and seek mushrooms For supper. Stewed with milk They will provide a nourishing meal. Shall we require our ration-books? No. mushrooms are not yet rationed. Where shall we find them? In the meadow. Shall we not require a bag or a basket? Perhaps. Here is one. Is that large enough? Let us hope we shall fill it. Look, there I think is a mushroom. Do not hurry. It will not run away. It is a white stone. That is a pity. Here at last is one. It is rather small. It will not make a very large dish. Never mind, It is a beginning. Here is another. Throw it away. It is a toadstool. It is nevertheless very handsome. Many people, I believe, eat toadstools. Many people also die of eating them. We will perhaps throw it away. Here, however, is another mushroom. It is somewhat worm-eaten. A mushroom Which is worm-eaten is even more poisonous than a toadstool. We will throw that one away also. Let us go in. Yes, it is growing late. Have you the mushroom? Yes, it is in the basket. We did not require such a large basket. I do not see the mushroom. It was there a minute ago. It is not there now. That is strange. I saw it when I put down the basket to climb the fence. See, that chicken is eating something. It is eating the mushroom. That is a pity. We shall not now have mushrooms for supper.