孙亮方食生梅

       孙亮^①方食生梅，使黄门^②至中藏^③取蜜渍^④梅，蜜中有鼠矢；召问藏吏^⑤，藏吏叩头。亮问吏曰：“黄门尝私从汝求蜜耶？"吏曰：“向求，实不敢与。”黄门不服^⑥。亮曰：“此易知耳。”令破鼠矢，矢里燥。亮大笑曰：“若矢先在蜜中，中外当俱湿；今外湿里燥，必是黄门所为”黄门首服，左右莫不惊悚。

      【注释】①孙亮：孙权的儿子，很小就做了三国时东昊的皇帝。②黄门：宦官。③中藏：宫中仓库。④渍：浸、蘸。⑤藏吏：管理仓库的官吏。⑥服：认罪。

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Presents For Children's Day

    Charles M. Schulz was born in 1922 in Minneapolis, the only child of a housewife and a barber. His interest in comics was encouraged by his father, who loved the funny pages. Charles M. Schulz sold seventeen cartoons to the Saturday Evening Post from 1948 to 1950 and Li'l Folks to the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Peanuts debuted(首次露面) on October 2, 1950, and ran without interruption(中止)for the next fifty years. Charles M. Schulz died in 2000.

    ●IT'S A DOG'S LIFE  SNOOPY

    It's a Dog's Life, Snoopy brings all your familiar friends together for great times and fun.

    ●IT'S A BIG WORLD  CHARLIE BROWN

    Charlie Brown faces some of life's little challenges with the help of Snoopy, Lucy, Peppermint Patty, Linus, and the rest of the gang(一伙) in It's a Big World, Charlie Brown.

    ●PEANUTS 2000

The last one is the special edition Peanuts 2000, which includes all the last year's Peanuts comic strip and Charles M. Schulz's famous farewell strip.

    Come and visit our website at www.ballantinebooks.com or come to Ballantine Bookshop, you'll have a big surprise.