Mary Poppins / Мэри Поппинс. Книга для чтения на английском языке

Wigg, “I went to the Circus and I laughed so much that I flew up to the ceiling and could not get down until midnight, and then, of course, at twelve o’clock I suddenly fell down. Because, you see, it was already Saturday and not my birthday. It’s strange, isn’t it? And funny, isn’t it? And now it is Friday again and my birthday, and you two and Mary have come to visit me, and it is very nice. Oh, don’t make me laugh[28 - don’t make me laugh – не заставляйте меня смеяться], please, don’t make me laugh —”

And Mr.

Wigg began laughing and shaking under the ceiling again, and could not stop.

He looked so funny, that Jane and Michael began laughing, too. They wanted to be polite and tried not to laugh, but they could do nothing. They laughed more and more, and soon they fell down and were rolling and rolling on the floor, and could not stop laughing.

“Really!” said Mary Poppins. “Really, such behaviour!”

“I can’t help it[29 - I can’t help it – Я ничего не могу поделать], I can’t help it,” cried Michael, and he was still rolling on the floor.

“It is so funny. Oh, Jane, isn’t it funny?”

Then a very strange thing happened. Jane and Michael became very light and flew up in the air! The next moment they were hanging under the ceiling near Mr. Wigg.

“Hello!” said Mr. Wigg. “It’s very nice of you. You saw that I could not come down to you, so you came up to me!

It’s really very, very nice of you.

” And all the three of them began laughing again.

“I say,” said Mr. Wigg to the children when they stopped laughing, “there are no chairs here, but I think you can sit on the air. Look at me, I am sitting.”

And indeed, Mr. Wigg was sitting on the air. Jane and Michael tried to sit down, too, and found that they also could sit on the air and that it was very comfortable.

Mr. Wigg looked down at Mary Poppins. “I see you don’t like it, my dear,” he said.

“I am very sorry. But you see that I can’t help it.”

Mary Poppins looked very serious. “Well, I must say,” she said, “I have never seen such a sight[30 - I have never seen such a sight [saıt] – Я никогда не видела такого зрелища]. And at your age[31 - at your age – в вашем возрасте], Uncle —”

“Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins, come up here!” said Michael. “Think of something funny and come up here.