القاضي رئيس محكمة نور الاسلام
عدد المساهمات : 3310 رصيد نقاط : 22673 رصيد حسابك فى بنك نور : 309 تاريخ التسجيل : 06/10/2009
| موضوع: the black tulip الأحد أبريل 04, 2010 1:39 am | |
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in the small town of dort in holland . in the year 1672 , there lived happy man . there are few really happy men in the word , and cornelius van baerle was one of these few .
cornelius began life as a doctor but when his father died gave up that work van baerle 's father had gained a lot of money in trade . when he was death he said to his son , cornelius .''' working all day in an office is not a happy life . do not be like me , a trader . do not be like cornelius de witte . a politician . for he will certainly end in trouble . live quietly and , above all , be happy
so cornelius van baerle remained in the large house . he did not know how to pass the time , so he began to grow tulips . at this time people were very interested in the growing of tulips and great prizes were offered to anyone who could grow some new kind .... a tulip of some new shape or new colour . van baerl grew thre e new kinds of tulips
he called them jane ( after his mother ) . van baerle ( after his father ) . and cornelius ( after cornelius de witte his father 's friend ) .
in the next house to van baerle lived a man namd isaac boxtel . he also was a tulip grower , but he was not rich . he worked very hard - and he hated baerle .he was afraid that this rich man might grow better tulips than his owan . he looked over the garden wall and watched everything that van did
he even bought a telescope so that he might look into the window of van house and see him working with his seed and bulbs . tulips are grown from bulbs . when he saw van garden filled with the most beautiful flowers , he tied tow cats together and dropped them over the wall night . the cats broke down all the flowers .
van then put a watchman in the garden
to guard this flowers against cats ( for he did not know that boxtel had put the cats there )
just at this time a prze was offered to anyone who could grow a black tulip without any other colour on it at all . the prize offered was one hundred thousand guilders .
van set to work . he grew deep red tulips . thin , from these dark red tulips , he got brown tulips . next year he had very dark brown tulips . only got tulips of a light brown colour . he was very angry . he was so angry that he could not work . he could do nothing but watch van . he sat at his telescope and looked at van working with his bulbs and seeds so as to mix one kind of tulip with another .
the more boxtel watched van , the more he hated him .
at just at this time cornelius de witte arived in the town
[size=24][center][i][b]questions chapter 1 when did cornelius give up working as a doctor ?????? | |
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القاضي رئيس محكمة نور الاسلام
عدد المساهمات : 3310 رصيد نقاط : 22673 رصيد حسابك فى بنك نور : 309 تاريخ التسجيل : 06/10/2009
| موضوع: رد: the black tulip الإثنين أبريل 05, 2010 12:15 am | |
| cornelius de witte reached van baerle,s house one evening in the month of january , 1672 he looked at wholehouse . he saw everything . thin he said . ((( i wish to be alone with you few minutes )))
come to my seed room ::: said van
all this time boxtel was watching everything through his telescope .
van took a lamp and led de witte to the seed room . here was a large box in which the seeds and bulbs were kept . boxtel watched through his telescope more carefully than ever 'he saw the light come into the room . he saw de witte and knew who he was ( for cornelius de witte was well known as a leader of government )
de witte said a few words to van baerle . boxtel could not tell what those words were . then de witte took out a number of papers all tied together . | |
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القاضي رئيس محكمة نور الاسلام
عدد المساهمات : 3310 رصيد نقاط : 22673 رصيد حسابك فى بنك نور : 309 تاريخ التسجيل : 06/10/2009
| موضوع: رد: the black tulip الإثنين أبريل 05, 2010 12:46 am | |
| de witte gave the papers to van . it was clear that the papers were vary important . boxtel thought that they were papers about matters of government . but why ( thought boxtel ) were government papers given to van baerle who was not interested in public matters at all ?????
boxtel know that the public did not like cornelius de witte . every month they hated him more perhaps those papers were some secret of government which de witte did not wish to have known . van took the papers and put them in a box with his bulbs . de witte then said something he shook van hand . they went out of the room . soon afterwards . de witte went out into the street .
boxtel was right in his thoughts . the papers which de witte gave to van were letters to the king of france . but de witte was careful not to tell his friend what was the papers . he only asked him keeb them carefully and notto give them up to anyone except himself or a person whom he might send
van put the papers away in the box and thought no more about them lor=red][size=24]qustions chapter 2 who is cornelius de witte
where did van hide the important letters | |
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