Best Breakfast Ever Learn English through story level 2

in

the present

place

hastings the southeast coast of england

my aunt brenda owns a small hotel called

the sea view guest house in hastings

it’s got five bedrooms it’s a very good

guest house

people come from everywhere to stay

there

hastings is a good place to stay if you

want to see the beautiful southeast

coast of england

it’s an old town

aunt brenda’s house is over 100 years

old

she has managed it as a guest house for

the last 10 years

aunt brenda is a good looking woman

everybody says so

she’s almost 40 years of age with red

hair and a mind of her own

her husband is my uncle ralph he loves

her very much

her guests always like her too

my uncle ralph is a local butcher and he

has a shop

the shop is well known in the town

he provides all the meat for the guest

house

his sausages brenda always says

are the best in england

she always persuades her guests to have

them for breakfast

her full english breakfast she calls it

is famous in hastings brenda’s full

english breakfast includes bacon eggs

mushrooms tomatoes

toast and of course uncle ralph’s

sausages

they are the most important part of it

aunt brenda takes great pleasure in the

fact that all of her guests have tried

ralph sausages and loved them

all that is except mr dunn

don’t you worry linda told me

i’ll make sure he eats ralph’s sausages

before he leaves here

just you wait and see

aunt brenda’s full english breakfast is

mentioned in all the holiday webpages

it’s the reason why most people stay at

the guest house

if you don’t eat at all especially the

sausages she thinks you are just being

rude and there is no way she will accept

that

she always likes to hear her guests say

how much they enjoy the sausages

in fact she expects them to say it

now don’t think for one moment that

ralph’s sausages are anything less than

delicious

he makes sausages out of different kinds

of meat

they are made in all kinds of different

ways and flavors

please all kinds of tastes

except mr duns

you see

mr dunn was a vegetarian

a vegetarian doesn’t eat meat at all

no chicken no beef no pork and not even

any fish

in fact mr dunn didn’t even wear leather

shoes

even his sweaters brenda tells me

weren’t made of wool

now don’t tell me that’s normal brenda

told me

we’ve had vegetarians at the guesthouse

before

i always managed to persuade them to

have a sausage

and once they’ve had one

here brenda raised her eyes to the

ceiling

when she did this he meant you know what

happens next

and of course i do

nobody has ever tasted ralph sausages

before and not wanted another

i could see that she wasn’t going to let

mr dunn be the first to refuse

not if she could help it

i knew then

that mr dunn one way or another was

going to eat a sausage

me

i’m claire

aunt brenda’s niece i live in hastings

too with my mum

my aunt and i have always got on well i

see a lot of her

we both love hastings

like many towns by the sea it has lots

of visitors

some of them are rather strange

some pass through and some stay

seaside towns like hastings seem to

interest all kinds of people

i think that’s part of the reason we

both like hastings

but mr dunn was stranger than anybody

i’d ever seen before

to begin with

he looked as if he hadn’t had a good

meal for a long time

he was tall and thin

and his hair was as grey as iron

his nose was big and made him look like

a wild hungry eagle

his eyes were deep in his head

and his teeth were long and yellow

one thinks of vegetarians as being

gentle people

he didn’t look gentle at all

he looked like he could kill things with

his teeth alone

if he wanted to

then there were his hands they were long

and he had thin fingers with thick sharp

fingernails

his fingers looked very strong

i don’t know what he did for a living

i wouldn’t like to work with him i’m

sure of that

mr dunn was going to be staying at my

aunt’s house for three weeks

aunt brenda had to buy vegetarian stuff

just for him

like soya milk

he never had cow’s milk she didn’t like

that

he always eat his cereal with soy milk

for breakfast without speaking to anyone

she didn’t like that either

i have breakfast at aunt brenda’s place

every saturday morning

she likes to look after her little niece

even though i am already 17 years old

this saturday she wanted me to talk to

mr dunn

you see what you can find out about him

claire she told me

i want to see him eating a nice sausage

not that sawyer rubbish

and please hurry up

he’s already been here for over a week

i’ve only got 10 days left to do it

i don’t see anything wrong with being a

vegetarian i really don’t but you don’t

argue with aunt brenda

so at eight o’clock on saturday morning

i was sitting across the table from mr

dunn

i was given my full english breakfast

complete with ralph’s beautiful sausages

and mr dunn had his cereal and soya milk

good morning i said cheerfully lovely

day isn’t it

mr dunn looked up from his bowl

his eyes were big and gray

he replied with a voice that sounded

like a bear with a bad throat the sun

was shining it was early september it

was a lovely day

have you tried these sausages

i asked they really are delicious

i don’t eat meat he said

not anymore

uh you used to eat it then

i asked

mr dunn gave me a bad tempered look

and then he answered slowly

i was told i had to give it up

uh for health reasons i asked

mr dunn

almost smiled at me

as he raised a corner of his mouth

oh yes

my health

and others too

i heard him make a deep sound that may

have been laughter

it was hard to tell with mr dunn

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surely just one sausage wouldn’t hurt

you

i said holding up a piece on my fork as

if to make my point clear

they really are good

mr dunn said nothing

but the look he gave me was enough to

make me shut up

i finished my breakfast and left as soon

as i could

for health reasons

said brenda over a cup of tea later that

morning

ralph’s sausages would be really good

for anybody’s health

he needs a bit of meat if you ask me

it would doing good

i could see by the look in her eyes

brenda was thinking of something

when brenda starts thinking of something

it usually means trouble for somebody

usually me

you say he used to eat meat

brenda looked towards me he yet it once

he’ll eat it again

i just have to think of a plan

oh no

i thought to myself

brenda had of course tried to interest

mr dunn in her sausages from the first

day he arrived

every morning she asked him again

until he told her not to

that was only on the third day

so brenda said nothing more and gave him

his vegetarian breakfasts

she asked him about himself just to make

conversation

the truth is

brenda is the kind of person who likes

to know other people’s business

she didn’t get much out of mr dunn but

she didn’t give up

eventually

on the monday of the second week

she got some information out of him

so that’s what he told me claire

she said he’s resting after an illness

he didn’t say what it was but he has to

be careful with his diet

i told you he looked ill didn’t i

anyway anybody can see that all he needs

is some good meat inside him

it would do him a lot of good

you can see in his eyes he wants meat

i’ve seen him looking at the other

guests when they’re eating their

sausages

you can’t tell me he’s happy with cereal

and soya milk

a few days later i stopped at aunt

brenda’s guest house to see what was

happening with mr dunn

he’s agreed to try a sausage my aunt

told me excitedly

really

i said i was amazed

well he said he might try a vegetarian

sausage

she said

so is uncle ralph going to make some i

asked her

well that’s what i told mr dunn my aunt

replied

i said they would be ready on saturday

and then she added

oh and i also said that you would try

them first let him know what they are

like

but of course brenda was lying about the

sausages

ralph had never made vegetarian sausages

in his life and he wasn’t going to start

now

is this a good idea i said to my aunt

slowly

they’re not going to be vegetarian

sausages at all

they’ll be meat sausages just like all

the others

you’re telling lies to mr dunn aunt

brenda

ah but he won’t know

said brenda looking me in the eye

not if nobody tells him

but why do you care so much i asked

it’s only a sausage

i already knew the answer

to brenda her full english breakfast was

what she was known for

it just wasn’t a full english breakfast

without ralph’s sausages

and nobody had ever turned down the

famous sausages

to turn down brenda’s sausages was to

turn her down and she didn’t like that

at all

i knew then that mr dunn didn’t have a

chance

the next saturday i arrived early at my

aunt’s guest house

i knew what to do

i sat opposite mr dunn during breakfast

so that he could see the beach through

the window

brenda’s guest house was also famous for

its views of the sea

she thought the sea air helped her

guests to enjoy their food more

there was a street between the guest

house and the beach

and the windows were very big so that

people passing by could see everybody

enjoying their food

it was good for business

mr dunn looked even more bad tempered

than usual

he seemed to have a cold because he

sneezed a lot

anyway

soon my aunt came out with my breakfast

it had bacon egg

mushrooms tomatoes

and uncle ralph’s vegetarian sausages

all cooked perfectly

of course

sausages were meat sausages as usual

but i didn’t tell him that

i started eating my breakfast hungrily

they really are so delicious

i said chewing one of my sausages with a

smile

mr dunn looked up

was he showing some interest at last

amazing i said

so tasty

and are they completely vegetarian

he asked

brenda says they are all sawyer and

herbs but they taste just like the best

sausages ever

no meat at all she says

nobody could ever tell the difference

would you like to try one

that’s when he finally agreed to try one

brenda brought in just one meat sausage

a plate

it was beautifully cooked

all golden brown

and it smelled wonderful to me

i’m not sure mr dunn could smell it

properly with his cold

but he certainly looked at it with

hungry eyes

we watched as mr dunn cut a small piece

and put it on his fork

he put it to his nose and tried to smell

it

he closed his eyes and put it into his

mouth

he chewed it for a few seconds

and smiled

brenda smiled at me

it had worked

mister done light them

suddenly

mr dunn made a horrible sound

like an animal

he stood up held his throat tightly

we watched as he seemed to grow in front

of us

one moment he was mr done

the next moment he was bigger grayer

his ears grew

and his face got longer

he cried out just like a wolf and jumped

up from his chair

then he jumped across the table and

straight through the window

there was a huge crash as broken glass

was sent flying all over the street

he landed outside and looked around like

a frightened animal

he went down onto his hands

if they were still hands

and ran straight into the road in the

busy morning traffic

we couldn’t see him

we heard a crash and i heard some people

scream

a bus stopped suddenly

when we went outside we expected to see

mr dunn lying in front of the bus

we saw the driver standing in the road

where did that thing come from

he asked

i mean just look at the size of it

he’s a man staying at my aunt’s guest

house

i told the driver without looking

he came out of there

his name is

man

what are you talking about

said the driver

just take a look at it

aunt brenda and i looked

there

lying dead on the ground

was the body of a huge grey dog

its mouth was open

and it had long yellow teeth

its feet brother paws were huge

thick sharp claws

it was bigger than any dog i’d ever seen

in my life

that’s a wolf

somebody shouted

they were right it was a wolf

but what was a wolf doing on a busy road

in hastings

we never saw mr dunn again

nobody knew anything about him

we never found out who he really was

or indeed what he really was

aunt brenda still manages her guest

house and cooks her full english

breakfast

but she doesn’t mind if her guests want

cereal instead of sausages now

in fact

i think she prefers it

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