Chapter 53 Stepping Stones and Potatoes

Dear Xiaowen: You start to learn about plants, and you want your dad to write some plants for you.Well, look, here comes the plant, what kind of flower is this?This is the Mayflower, the state flower of Massachusetts.Massachusetts is a small state with a small coat hook in the east of the United States. Although the state is small, its qualifications are very old. In 1620—128 years after Columbus discovered America, a ship named Mayflower arrived. This place in Provincetown on the coat hook, there are 102 Pilgrims (all Puritan Pilgrims) on this boat, old and young, men and women (some with servants), they boarded the ship from the port of Plymouth, England, and walked After sixty-five days, I arrived at the coat hook (this hook is called Cape Cod), but the 102 people who got here were not all the 102 people who got on the boat, because one died and another was born. On November 21 in 620, when they arrived on December 21, they went to the land in the west. Because they came from Plymouth, they called this place Plymouth. (Do you remember what Dad wrote to you on September 23, the year before last, that the United States thinks of the source of drinking water in the United Kingdom? There is one Plymouth in the United Kingdom, and six from the United States?) When we arrived here, 102 people changed again, and three died. One, another was born, and there were only ninety-nine in total.Legend has it that they stepped on a stepping-stone, which is now a US National Treasure.

These ninety-nine people from more than 350 years ago are the ancestors of white Americans today. This boat has long been rotten, but in 1957, Britain made an identical one, called Mayflower II, which is called a replica in English, and sent it to the United States. Some white Americans are very arrogant, always showing off their ancestors from Mayflower, thinking that they are the most qualified, but forget that before the whites came to America, there were already yellow Indians there.The most famous cowboy philosopher in American history (the cowboy philosopher), Will Rogers, who was the best at performing whip swings and telling jokes (in 1935, more than three months after his father was born, he died in a plane crash) once said: Sarcasm for these white Americans:

My folks didnt come over on the Mayflower, but they were there t meet the boat. It turns out that Will Rogers' ancestors were Indians!As far back as 20,000 years ago, from Asia to America! It can be seen that one should not always brag about one's ancestors, one should have abilities. Thomas Overbury made a metaphor with the potato (potato) in the plant. He said that he was a mediocre guy who always boasted about his famous ancestors. under the ground). The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato - the only good belonging to him is under ground. (Sir Thomas Overbury: Characters)

Xiaowen, tell me, is this metaphor fun? The bulbous root of the potato is called tuber. The Soviet Union has the most potatoes in the world, followed by Poland, Germany, China, and the United States. English related to potatoes, hot potato and small potatoes, you can ask the teacher what they mean. dad February 1, 1975 P.S. You received the twenty-sixth letter last month on the twenty-eighth.