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Words Meanings Synonyms
barber hairdresser
old-fashioned 3 old, former, outdated
crowded packed, jammed, bundled, stuffed
usually generally, normally, ordinarily, typically
for instance LUoforfor example, as an example
sort kind, type, variety, class, category
express |show, indicate, exhibit, reveal, display
range pde»g scope, scale, reach, extent, orbit, limits
SUNSHINE ENGLISH (Concise-1) 350 THEOYESTER AND THE PEARL
SCENE
Harry Van Dusen's barber (}) shop in igUr

0.K.-by-the-Sea, California, population 909. The s YL4ots

sign (S) an the window say HARRY VAN DiALaoo
AAlUzd
DUSEN, BARBER. 's an od-fashione ( i ) r
UUKLJ
shop cromded ( AM with stuff (Lz«) not

uualy() found in barber shops.. Hary himself : V AH ¢/y

for instance qSLJO). He has neer been know D
barber's white jacket or to wa
to put on () a

his head:
without a hat of some sort ( on

stovepipe, a derby, a western, a homburg, a skullcap,

heret, or a straw, as if putting on these various brlnip }uh»yifa
Us) apressed reuisri92&
(LLLAG) hats somewhat
20
(ASD the quality ( i ) af his soul or suggested peSLLALEg
Zubu AHsALU
(nT) the ange (Urd) ofi ATdstbnnlKinN
odds and ends j al | Y bits, pieces, fragments, remnants, seraps
apparendy 4 seemingly, it seems that, it appears that
broken floating wood, broken pieces of wood that
|driftwood
are found washed up on a beach or riverbank

On the walls, on shelves (). are

many CgpLzUrYKIwa
adds and ends CYM, some spparendy (yT) drLspuzdrdeyrL
washed up (unveiste-tp by the sei, which is a u z d r e i L ALA
block down the street abalone ( i ) and other nhuluȀge psin
shells (), rocks, pieces driftwood ( t D ,of znErRLIS LIS
ife jacket, rope C), sea planis. Thereis an old- m uztdLA1¢U
fashioned (sCD chair
When the play begins, Harry is seated in the
t a brl~P
chair. A boy of nine o r ten named Clay Larabee is
Sne-JvsiStILG
gving him a haireut. Hery is reading a book one of.usYIIKILbSa¢ph
many in the shop.

CLAY Well, 1 did what you told me, Mr. L L y

Van Dusen. I hope it's all right. I'm YSEA
no
barberthough. (He begins to
comb ( t u ) the hair.)
PpdunrysKA
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HARRY: You just gave me a haircut, didn't
you?
CLAY: I don't know what you'd call it. You
want tolook at it in the mirror (T)?
(He holds out a small mirror.)
HARRY: No thanks. I remember the last one.
2
CLAY I guess I'll never be a barber.
turn ouut come to be, grow into, change into C s P
hidden lb concealed, unseen, covered, masked
junk rubbish, refuse, waste, garbage NOTESPR

meriment msé| EA>#cheerfulness,joy,amusement,fun

compose write, create, think up, invent, produee
symphony Aj instrumental harmony, musical instrument
invent create, design, think up, hit upon, frame

philosophy logic, wisdom, ideology, ideas,

HARRY: May be not. On the ather hand, you e LURslU
may tun
out (tflS12) to be the
eoy-ALPs
one man hidden (r away in the
junk GYKA ) of the world who will
2vLS Lng
uuILALEARST
bring merriment (Uht) to the tired
(LAL) old human heart.
CLAY Who? Me?
HARRY Why not?
CLAY: Merriment ( i n ) to the tired old uLJdiPeA
human heart? How do you do that?

HARRY: Compose o ) a symphony (UL)

paint G) a picture, write a book,
invent (as) a philosophy (i).
Not mel Did you do stuff (rlike LSLSYTSdnE
CLAY ever

that?
HARRY: I did.
CLAY: What did you do?

HARRY:
Invented ( i ) a philosophy.

CLAY What's that?

HARRY: A way to live.
What way did you invent?
CLAY:
HARRY: The Take-it-eany way.
CLAY: That sounds (tUUS) pretty
( e # ) good.
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sound uj eleous appear, look, seemn

to one's name
r 2 ¥ i t t t O L have, own, possess in the bank, in one's account

throw in l add something as extra

HARRY: All philosophies sound (2) good. LA- L&iep0
The trouble (P)with mine was, I
CuwFis L
kept forgetting (ur f DX) to take it
-JwsEN-UnOd
easy. Until one day. The day I came off

ym) the highway G) into wbuyunaptn1

this barber shop. The barber told uwbStdLy-1f
me the shop was for sale (as). I 2LASNue1LUt es)
told him all I had to my name J1- SiSP7UJ
(n)was eighty dollars. He dSas}thins&
sold me the shop for seventy-five,
and tirewin C(hut) the hair- cut y sa
) . I've been here ever since. That UsezunqueE
was twenty-four years ago.

proper right, suitable, fit, appropriate

put on wear, have-on, bear

CLAY: Before I was born.

HARRY Fifteen or sixteen years before you

nugel
were born.
CLAY: How old were you then?
HARRY: Old enough to know a good thing
when I saw it

CLAY: What did you see?

HARRY O.K. -by-the-Sea, and this shop
The proper place for me to stop.
That'sa couplet (a-puA). PJLgPVo
Shakespeare had them at the end of a JpLEVU IL
scene, so I guess ( ) that's .the
end of this haircut. (He gets out of the
chalr, goes to the hat tree, and puts on

( ) a derky)
fair and square l lAdtrsujust, equitable, fadr, aquare
Now and then osl sometimes, at times, occasionally, off and on
 SUNSHINE ENGLISH (Concise-1) 353 THE OYESTER AND THE PEARL
CLAY I guess I'd get a haircut if you
never
weren't in town, Mr. Van Dusen.
HARRY:
Nobody would, since I'm the only -
barber.
CLAY I mean, free of
charge.
HARRY I give you a haircut free of charge, you
give me a haircut free of charge. That's
AUrOKJlAE
air and square (ulviPu).
CLAY Yes, but you're a barber. You get a J y T r ¥ I I TAA
dollar a hair cut. - iv2
HARRY: Now and then Cd) 1 do. Now u (azDE K
and then don't
beach seaside, coast, seashore, shore
look for
search for. hunt for, seek
stuff things, objects, articles, items
expect j.usl| UE suppose, look forward to, anticipate, hope
wash up l l k u i eject, throw up, cast up, wash ashore
CLAY Well, anyhow, thanks alot. I guess I'1 U oanadop
go down to the beach CUV) now and
lookfor (tU) sruf(L3»).
HARRY r'd go with you but l'm expectipg à 4 o z vNY
(CNa htde Saturday business.
CLAY: This time >'m going to find something
real() ood ( j ) , 1I think. bdssJpI2/u
HARRY The sea washesup ( -ou) some -u '3(NA1
pretty ( ) good things at that,
doesn't it??
CLAY: It sure does, except (UP) noney. L wl
HARRY What do you want the money for?
CLAY: Things I need. +eapdesYLvzed
HARRY: What do you need?
CLAY I want to get my father to come home
again. I want to buy Mother a present tji4LILusT
HARRY: Now, waita minute, Clay, let me get
this straight (Ssu). Where is yor
father? JudLsL
CLAY I don't kaow. He went off (
the day after I got my last haircut LwumDyu
abouta month ago.
What do you mean, he went off?
HARRY
CLAY: He just picked up ( { l L ) aad
went off.
SUNSHINE ENGLISH (Concise -1) 354 THE OYESTER AND THE PEARL
HARRY: Did he say when he was coming back?
CLAY: No. All he syid was, Enough's enough. -kemeasNgsLul
Rewrote (w) it on the kitchen wal
HARRY: Enough's enough?
CLAY: Yeah. We all thought he'd be back Tyne
(TA) in a day or two, but now v a 4
we know we've got to find him and
bring him back.
HARRY: Howdo you expect (E) to do that?
ad 3 notice, announcement, advertisement
live off ul. live on, rely on financially, depend on
CLAY: Well, we put an ad ) in The . .S.JLAS
OKby-the-Sea Gul,. that comes out

( 0) every Saturday.
HARRY: the paper). This paper? AIMLN}I 4)
(opening
But your father's not in town. How UngIUfN
will he see an ad in this paper?
CLAY: He might see it. Anyhow, we don't ze
know what else (si) to do. We're - wE nJa
livng off 4-UmpI)he money we kReUapeEJe
saved from the summer we worked, U\JgGp)gui
but there ain't much left.
HARRY: The summer you worked??

tackle P-2| v gear, equipment, apparatus,tools

closet cupboard, cabinet, locker, storageroom
safe and sound l l G safe, secure, protected, sheltered, guarded

bygones J past, departed, dead, former, previous

CLAY: Yeah. Summer before last, just before ukuu/Ubeuh
we moved here, we picked (U) uytusasLfH-f
cotton in Kern Country. My father, -2tabu-U&
my mother, and me.

HARRY: Gindicating (nLs the paper)

What do you say in your ad?
CTAV (looking at it). Well, I say... Clark rehKtL/ALr
Larrabee. Come home. Your fishing
tackes C o ) n the eloset o ) Asek¢ASTnsAd
safe and sound (vEs#), The tsuej+SlzhLJfE
fishing's good (guor), plenty dksaP)EMp
 ebpaimouy jo iOuaj9ox
woydsajou MMM
k
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SUNSHINE ENGLISH (Concise-) 356

HARRY: You are?

THE GIRL Yes, I am. -Umu
HARRY Now do you like it?
THE GIRL: One week at this school has knocked
4lILA) LLAAILJFn
me for a loop
UVA. As a matter of fact, I want t qR-t4
and go home to San
(t)
to guir
Francisco. At the same time I have a
t }vSzil
feeling (U) I ought (G) to stay.
What do you think? g-Jey-gtrie
wrong, incorrect, false, misguided
mistaken
in every respect
exactly precisely, just, quite,
HARRY Are you serious (f)N I mean, in
asking me?
THE GIR Of course (ER) I'm serious. You've been cesKAUtite
here a long time. You know everybody
in town. Shall I go, or shall I stay?
HARRY Depends on ( what you're njoszUS
looking for («iwUV). I stopped
here twenty-four years ago
because I
decided I wasn't looking for anything
z4sOy/L
UU}-/IrS
anymore. Well, I was mistaken ( ).
I was looking, and I've found exactly JhLklatintL)
(P)what I was looking for.
THE GIRL: What's that?
take one's time stsij. AS»teto beslow,haveleisure,moveslowly,relax
expect
HARRY:
S | |look for, look forward to, hope for
A chance to take my time (t/EI3).
That's why I'm still here. What
areeJrSzU-Ur
you looking for, Miss McCutcheon!
THE GIRL: Well
HARRY I mean, besides (oot) a husband-
THE GIRL: I'm not logking for a husband. I
pect(Un G?) a husband to look AAednSE
for me.
HARRY: That's fair.
TH GiL
HARRY
I'm looking for a chance to teach.
That's fair too.
-wmAnsdrLi
whether S whether or not, if
On top of that e i u G H T | t e in additlon to, besides, moreover
unruly wso rUdsorderly,uncontrollable, diaobedient, wilhul
 SUNSHINE ENGLISH (Concise-) 357. THE OYESTER AND THE PEARL
es.
THE GIRL But
don't
this
townl... The children
seem to care
just uKLNsGd s
about ( )
anything- whether (JD get
good grades or bad, whether they pass they Mturh
orfail, or anything else. On top of
thar (»te
ev)amost all
are unrulr(U
of them
). The only thing
Uh-yVE
UTisbu
they seem to be interested in is
and the sea. That's why I'm on
my
games, mWG#uf-f
way to the beach ( r )now. I
thought ifI could watch (b) them (weekend)aLàsdie
on a Saturday I might understand UJP»UF
them better.
sensible practical, wise, reasonable, rational, logical
ambition
|desire, aspiration, longing, aim, target
older o uKI tb mature, wise, sensible, experienced
HARRY Ys, that's a thought.
THE GIRL: Nobody seems to have any sensible -uU UPUU
(U)ambition (oiu). It's onu
all fun ( r ) and play. How can I
teach children like that? What can I
teach them?
HARRY: English.
THE GIRL Of course.
HARRY: drying his face). Singing, dancing. JasLe
uar A ytu
cooking
THE GIRL: Cooking? I must say I expected to see

a much older ( t l e > A ) man.

sPtbgUtnsGu
point out sTbsl tt indicate, show, mention, tell, say
HARRY: Well! Thank Youl
THE GIR: Not at all.
HARRY: The question is, shall you stay, or
UrUefYIFu
shall you go back to San Francisco?
THE GIR Yes
is, go back while the -Uu
HARRY
THE GIRL
The answer

going's good.
Why? I mean, a moment ago I
tiko1fe
-
s
going to point out 4k ee Aiu
believed you were

th) why I ought to stay and

( then suddenly ucsJnga
( ) you say I ought uAuer u
to go back. Why?
 SUNSHINE ENGLISH (Concise-) 358 THE OYESTER AND THE PEARL
pause break. halt, discontinuation, interval
youth youngster, teenager, adolescent, younger
intelligence s l intellect, mind, brain, wit, cleverness, wisdom
excitement ènd s,d]| nzarjk adventure, thril, enthusiasm, zeal
eligible J sl JU suitable, appropriate, Aitting, fit
HARRY (after a pause ( ) ) You're too

THE GIRL:
good for a town like this.
I am not!
-inay
HARRY Too young and too intelligent. Youth l-i»JoL»2
( R ) and intelligence ( )
need ercitement ( U )
f-UnenALHSj
THE GIRL There are kinds of excitement.
HARRY: Yes, there are. You need the big-city
kind. There isn't an eligible (ws) AE4nsiL
bachelor (UA) in town.
THE GIRL You seem to think all I want is to Pn JorzS0
find a husband.
softdy ei edlfquietly,gently, dimly,
poodle J|Slu |a poodle hair cut (curly-haired dog)
HARRY: But onlyteach. You want
to to
teach him to become a
eltUr s
father, so
2LLz4RUa}*
you can lot
have
your own to teach.
a
of children of
Ltne lN
THE GIRL: (She sits almost angrily in thechair -U¢UJEL)
and speaks very sofdy (etD) IPRgüee%
rd ike a poodle (¥bhudLP) nseiIUnO WUI
haircut if you don't mind, Mr. Van
Dusen.
HARRY: You'll have to get that in San
Francisco, I'm afraid.
THE GIRL: Why? Aren't you a barber?
HARRY: I am. -Un
customer client, buyer, purchaser
THE GIRL: Well, shop. It's open
this is your
for business. I'm a customer
LLM MNi
I've got money. I want a poodle (.ULAUnKIP4U
haircut. tIULF- S#
HARRY: I don't know howgive a poodle
to
haircut, but even if I know how,I 3TttlbuL 4
wouldn't do it.
THE GIRL: Why not?
HARRY I don't give women haircuts. The idJDKIULUA
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only women
seassrsessrsseesrssesssnereseses
who visit this shop
***
bring their small children for hueLA;Riyonn
haircuts.
THE GIRL: I want a
poodle haircut, Mr. Van
Dusen.
nightmare 4 s t | tsus bad dream, night terror
patiently l y F i calmly, tolerantly, coolly, peacefully
aPpearance
look, air, expression, manner, bearing
HARRY I'm sorry, Miss McCutcheon. In my
sleep, in a nightmare (GË GUS), I s UN
would not cut your hair. (7The sound iLsLnL
ofatruck stopping is heard from
eda-fuKAt
across the street). GÜtMTSLL
THE GIRL: (softy (). patiendy (e lvkp, KFia)
but firmly (L4M). Mr. Van o

Ive dec
Dusen, Ive decided to stay, and the
first thing I've got to do is change Í#zug VZr%k
my sppearance ) . I don't fit into Luhsukt- UU
the scenery around here.
HARRY: Oh, I don't know. If I were a small
boy going to school, I'd say you BULUPASo4E
lookjust right.
seriously Ulsr pensively, gravely, sternly
pretty charming, cute, lovely, good-looking, graceful
give up L SAsx stop, cease, leave off

despair hopelessness, discouragement, disappointmenat

plain UsU simple, straightforward, ordinary, average

firm, resolute, steadfast strong-willed

determined
scissors, a knife
|shears
THE GIRL: You're just like the children. They eltiaSUASUGS7
don't take me seriously (e-U), SIz K
morè
either. They think I'm nothing
than a pretty ( e S ) gil who is LSreelenj
AUbtesIenj

(CXSS7) in U ItUgILyu
going to gdve up
despair CUrZ) and go
home. 1f UAJ- &sSa
you give me poodle haircut I'11 h ¥Ubus}LL
and
look more well, plain (vUr)
simple. I plan to dress differently, y e r E U Y K J I L
to teach
too.I'm determined IO 7ikALLVZUl-+
here. You've got to help
me. Ngw,
Mr. Van Dusen, the shear
(E). ou tsa-U
as-u
please.
 SUNSHINE ENGLISH (Concise-1) 360 THE OYESTER AND THE PEARL

glance brief look, quick look, rapid look, glimpse

whisper U murmur, mutter, speak softly
rudeness a3 d4d/ |i-manneredness, disrespect, insults, dishonour
HARRY: I'm sorry, Miss
MeCutcheon. o
There's no need, to change your SarguN4 ts
Ppearance at all. -anS24f
(Clark Larrabee comes into the
shop.]
HARRY You're next Clark. (Harry helps a).JnfIL a
Miss McCutcheon out of the chair
She gives him an angry glance
tt|iesl
A0)
THE GIRL wrhispering (LrJD I won't uLrst
forget this rudeness
Mr. Van Dusen. (04U/).-us;JAU V/4UYE
mirunderstand igas|DO misapprehend, misinterpret, get the wrong kdea
scarcely dil hardly, barely, only just, bits, pieces, fragments
junk
HARRY:
Yr scrap, remnants, odds and ends

in
Never
(also, whispering).
0.K.-by-the-Sea. People
whisper bo,LKnZSI $s
misunderstand(U2Jsw)-4J uIs
(Loudly) Good day, Miss.
[Miss MeCutcheon opens her
parasol (UF) with anger and
leaves the shop. Clark Larrabee has UI
scarcely uP) noticed (¢LLdher. pnevnl
He stands looking at Hary's junk
Gy) on the shelves ( . kPEILJLUJs
HARRY: Well, Clark, I haven't seen you in
a long time.
CLARK: I'm just passing through (u), ru\s2AJtnss
Harry. Thought (}r) I might run e
( n u ) into Clay here. -peFkeLk
HARRY He was here a little while ago.
CLARK: How is he?
HARRY: He's fine, Clark.
CLARK I been working in Salinas. Gota
ride down in a truck. It's across K u S
L the street now at the gasoline nO-uTumr
( station.
HARRY: You've been home, of course?
aight _u small, litle, tiny, modest, a bit
SUNSHINE ENGLISH (Concise-1) 361 THE OYESTER AND THE PEARL
CLARK: No, I haven't.
HARRY Oh?
CLARK: (aftera slizht ( ) pause
I've left Fay, Harry. (D) .LUslaLIILI)
HARRY You got time for a haircut, Clark?
CLARK No thanks, Harry. I've to got go
back to Salinas on that truck
across the street.
HARRY: Clay's somewhere on the beach
( V).
CLARK: (handing (LnLP) Harry three
ten-dollar bills). Give him this,
( VLELHas Js
will
you? Thirty dollars. ehLeuke
Don't tell him I gave it to you.
HARRY Why not?
CLARK: I'd rather he didn't know I was
around (U). Is he all right?
kick S S|protest, object, complain about
surprise JSA P e 2 astonishment, amazement, wonder
HARRY: Sure, Clark. They're all O.K. I
mean (urE). &-uteeirr 2
CLARK: Tell him to take the money home -U
to his mother.
(He picks up ( U) the
newspaper, The Gull.)
HARRY: Sure, Clark. It came out ( {UA
this morning. Take it along.
CLARK: Thanks. (He puts the paper in his
pocket) How've things been going uYouutLOJAA
with you, Harry? *UoUgL2z-urt
HARRY: Oh, I can't kick ( a P S A
Two or three haircuts a day. A lot
of time to read. A few laughs (?). oor
r t n grdzd¥«Ei
dk)éi
A few surprises (u}Uhztg).
The sea. The fishing. Its a good life.
CLARK: Keep an eye (UE) on Clay, wi
LSsJprE
you? I mean-well, I had to do it.
HARRY: Sure. -
CLARK Yeah (u), well That's the first
money Ive been able to save. When
-unpr-lryuns
I make some more, I'd like to send elfe(assita
it here, so you can hand (tJLo) LLaI-fusuek
it to Clay, to take home.
 SUNSHINE ENGLISH (Conclse-) 362 THE OYESTER AND THE PEARL
HARRY: Anything you say, Clark. (7here is LnLReiSSs
the sound of the truck's horn
blowing (tywA))
CLARK: zUJ>ULMw»73
Well (He goes to the door.)
Thanks, Hary, thanks a lot.
HARRY Good seeing you, Clark.
shift change, alter
swift . A |fast, rapid, quick, speedy
[Clark Larrabee goes out. Harry watches him. A
truck shifting ( L L)U) gears is heard, and
yeida-t¥lkd
then the sound of the tuck driving off. Harry picks
UtLImAn yU24H
upbook changes hats, sits down in the chalr and
O4dg-çCUIOUA-EUTAT
begins to read. A man of forty or so, well- dressed
ueAAGUY¥RvgALJLA,
H-E gtY ¢
(UU), rather swift (12A) comes in.]
THE MAN: Where's the barber?
HARRY: I'm the barber. T
THE MAN: Can I get a haircut, real quick?
HARRY: getting out of the chatr). Depends T
on ( ) what you mean by
real quick.
THE MAN (sitting dawn). Well, just a haïrcut
then. T
HARRY:
(purting an apron Ck) around
the O.K. I
man). don't believe I've
seen you before.
THE MAN: No. They'rè changing
my
the oil in
across the street. Thought
car tansusLI T
T
rd step in here and get a
hair cut.
Get it out of the way (UsIJ) GUr,4eodu
before I get to Hollywood. How
many miles is it?
HARRY About two hundred straight down
the highway. You can't miss it.
THE MAN What town is this?
HARRY: O.K-by-the-Ses
repair mend, put right, restore, service
imitation e artiflcial, fake, false, ungenuine, bogus
THE MAN: What do the people do here?
HARRY: Well, I hair. Friend of
cut - SLUK
named Wozzeck repaire mine K i-rdKU\EU A
(ç_a)
watches, radios, alarm clocka, and
ella Jewellery (ask)
pkUL St
THE MAN Who does he sell it to?
HARRY The people here. It's imitation () uz i»pg-fuJL
stuff CL) mainly
().
SUNSHINE ENGLISH (Concise-) 363 . THE OYESTER AND THE PEARL
THE MAN: Factory here? Farms? Flshing?
HARRY: No. Just the few stores on the
the
highway,
houses further back in the
the church, and the school..
hills, tu R4YYY
salesman?
You a IEUhAMGIU
THE MAN: No, I'm a writer. T
HARRY: What do you write?
THE MAN A litde bit of
everything. How about
the haircut?
HARRY: You got to be in
Hollywood tonight
THE MAN: I don't have to be
anywhere tonight, T
but that was the idea. Why?
counting adding, inserting, including
HARRY: Well, I've always said a writer could
quGYRLUEU
step into a place like this, watch things SU3/05h Csyk
a little while, and get a whole boolk OUNElC
out of it, or a play.
THE MAN: Or if he was a poet, a sonnet. T
HARRY: Do you like Shakespeare's?
THE MAN: They're just about the best in English.
HARRY It's not often I get a writer in here. T
As a matter of fact you're the only
writer I've had in here in twenty years,

not counting (2nLP) Fenton. Uv204LLBn

THE MAN: Who's he?
HARRY: Fenton Lockhart www.notespk.com
|Excelience of
ST

THE MAN: What does he write? Knowledge

HARRY: He gets out (¢C4O0) the weekly iA O0
paper ( i A ) . Writes the whole thing
himself.
THE MAN Yeah. Well How about the haircut? T
HARRY: O.K.
cane chair JaÓ4 chair made of cane.
assortment i UUST variety, collection,sset
Harry putsa hot towel around the man's head. Miss
I/SLLTUMU)
McCutcheon, canying a,cane (Ua)_chair without one UglnLusiis
leg and without a seat, comes in. With her is Clay with U LMULeiwL
something in his hand, a smaller boy named Greeley lSptr2xFALAL
with a bottle of sea water, and Roxanna with an
u - niUXUAUUISuery
40rtment(aRUUU) Athells ().y
pear J
iuasuAAL
gem, carbuncle, ruby
 THE OYESTER AND THE PEARL
SUNSHINE ENGLISH (Conclse-1) 364
CLAY I got an oyster here, Mr. Van Dusen.

GREELEY Miss McCuteheon claims (¢-UJ) U/UA U

there ain't a big pear! (Ur) in it.
Harry: (looking at Miss McCutcheon) Is she ( L n i S n Ja
willing ( ) to admit (et) there's a UpNOLYtn
littde one in it?
GREELEY I don't know. I know I got sea water

in this bottle.

poke around .d|tAuUEr search for, look through, hunt through

Miss McCutcheon: Mr. Van Dusen. Clay Larrabee suuuy3yui
believe (tt) there's a pearl
seems to
in this oyster he happens to have
velR USp
found on the beach.
-eirlu he
vUEAI4
CLAY I didn't happen to findit. I went
0
for ( U ) it. You know(vesi O
looking
Black Rock, Mr. Van Dusen? Well, ULsrAEkt
the tide hardly ever gets low enough StyIEUr0
for a fellow to get around'to the ocean 2y¥UisILuRU
side of Black Rock, but a litde while
ago it did, so I went around there to
r ps
yE-DYUASE
that side. I got to poking around
(GAAUMAU) and I found this oyster.
Harry Ive been here twenty-four years, Clay, urtnpledbudgu
and this is the first time I've ever zriitgsg
heard of anybody finding an oyster on dIgasquto
our beach-at Black Rock, or anywhere
else.
CLAY: Well, I did, Mr. Van Dusen. It's shut
tight (-), it's alive, and there's a EMnlgslgng
isei
pearl in it, worth at least three
hundred dollars. 300
GREELEY: A bigpear
imprison S e l bLuetsL hinder, block,check, stop, prevent
Miss McCutcheon: Now, you children listen to me. It's YLEUK, T
never too soon for any of us to face rdrspAkEe
the truth, which is supposed toset us KILUSTs
free, not imprison (PIJ ua{9) us. Ursedpbdtu
The truth is, Clay, you want money
because you need money. The truth is
keSL
also that you have found an oyster. SUG
The truth is also that there is pearl
in the oyster.
no
ieeSr
in asmuch as kul Lkukinsofar as,since, because
 SUNSHINE ENGLISH (Conclse-1) 365 . THE OYESTER AND THE PEARL
sesssesceesssssssosnsa
.GREELEY How do you know? Did
you look?
Miss McCutcheon: No, but nelther
did Clay, and sLLSANS
inas much as (SL«kU) only one
oyster in a million has a pearl in t, isetuasnaLA
truth favors
(¢gt) the probablity #rbotndrtnds
(W) that this is not the millionth
nsgd
oyster ...the oyster with the pearl in it.
CLAY: There's a big pearl in the oyster.
Miss MeCutcheon: Mr. Van Dusen, shall we
the oyster and show
open ltrss
Clay and his
sister Roxanna and their Mend
b s sS
Greeley that there is no pearl in it?
JLus
Anfsid
HARRY: In
a moment, Miss MeCutcheon.
And what's that you have?
( )iudi
Miss McCutcheon: A chair, as you see.
HARRY How many legs does it have?
Miss McCutcheon: Three
of
thre, I hope.
course. I can count to
osEUBI2-EKis
HARRY What do you want with a chair
with only three legs?
Miss MeCutecheon: I'm going to bring things from Ung1LewrtoiS
the sea the same as everybody else
in town.
HARRY: But everybody else in town doesn't enaantg? Ja
bring things from the just the zs&4J
sea:

Judge, Applegarth,
children, Fenton
Lockhart, and myself. ULILZikdsi
fair ala, gala, festival
Miss McCutcheon: In any case, the same as the 44Ua &S
children, Judge Applegarth, Fenton
Lockhart, and you. Judge Applegarth? Jal
Who's he?
HARRY: He judged(CYYAD animals at a I E P S 4 L u Vs
county (U) air C) one time, so uuu
we call him Judge.
Miss McCutcheon: Dogs or hounds?
not care to call JL Se to not like doing something
prefer stt/
Houndsa little old-fashioned but I
choose, wiah,want, desre
HEIAIZJO
HARRY:
prefer it to dogs, and since both words
mean the same thingWel, Iwouldnt
care to call (ULaMU) a man
uuhKunju
dAUSYAEE UAMY
 SUNSHINE ENGLISH (Concise-I) 366. THE OYESTER AND THE PEARL
like Arthur Applegarth
dog's a

Judge.
Miss MeCutcheon: Did he actually judge dogs, as ALUP LUIUhViiGS
you prefer (Ce «t/) to put n s-Dpe
)it, at a county
fair-one
ime? Did he even do that? tYULUiYAALLU
HARRY: Nobody checked up. He said he LulsgtesdL
did.
entitle
qualify, allow, permit,enable
basis foundation, base, reasoning, grounds
Miss McCutcheon: So that entitled GphdP) him
to be called Judge Applegarth?
HARRY: It certainly did.
Miss McCutcheon: On that basis GH), Clay's

oyster has big pearl in

a it drAtSLykUT oiGL
because he says so, is that it?
HARRY I didn't say that.
Miss McCutcheon: Are we living
in the Middle
Ages (Ub2), Mr. Van Dusen? k LULUW»jey i s
GREELSEY: No, this is 1953, Miss
McCutcheon. -i %1953 s
llustrate è lsl s |show, make, clear, clarify, interpret
Miss McCutcheon: Yes, Greeley, and to ustrate
( ) what I mean that's SndkzanJRFNS
water you have in that bottle. SragLLe
Nothing else.
GREELEY Sea watèr.
Miss McCutcheon: Yes, but there's nothing else
in the bottle.
Jysurtudip
GREELEY: No, but there's little things in
the water. You can't see them
now, but they'll show up later.
7ozitdtnhiadyud
The water of the sea is full of
things. ornfeU»zitKuer
Miss McCutcheon: Salt, perhaps.
imagine assume, presume, suppose, think, believe
GREELEY No. Living things. If look hard I -

useioiLUzs*
can see some of them now.
Miss McCutcheon: You ecan imagine (tIAEJP) -bu zAE,
seeing them. Mr. Van Dusen,
are you going to help me or not?
HARRY: What do you want me to do?
Mas MCutcheon: Open the oyster of coure, so Cay SSuotA l
will see for himself that there's no
 SUNSHINE ENGLISH (Concise-I) 367 THE OYESTER AND THE PEARL
seeeessseseeseese.
pearl in it. So he'll begin to face b/v P4
( ) reality, as he ahould, as each setFdetVe
of us should.

damage tL harm, injure, impair, spoil

HARRY: Clay, do you mind if I look at the
oy'ster a minute?
kiLad L
CLAY: (handing (rLP) the oyster
Hary) There's a big pearl in it, Mr.
to eMLrLPS4)
Van Dusen.
HARRY: (examining the oyster). Clay.
Roxanna--Greeley.. I wonder if
you'd go down the street to Wozzeck's
Tell him to come here the first chance huetaits
he gets. Id rather he opened this oyster.
I might damage (tikoO) the pear
CLAY, GREELEY, and ROXANNA: O.K, Mr. Van
Dusen. (They go out)
infhuence effect, impact, control, hold
Miss McCutcheon: What peari? What in the world do
you think you're trying to do to the
LuE?jrvs:oS
minds of these children? How am I
ever going to teach them the principles LdrI
CuDof truth with infhuence )D an

ike yours to fight (t) against?

afford 3 teig pay for, spare the price of
couple of two, two or three, a few, not many
next to nothing z | small quantity, hardly anything
HARRY. Miss McCutcheon. The people of
sE.JIIS
O.K-by-the-Sea are
all poor. Most of
e t o ÄKoL
them can't afod (eraz) to pay for
the haircuts I give them. There's no
excuse C)for this town at all, but u - u n t E
the sea is here, and so are the hilla: A: MrsplssiLAksL
few people findjobs a couple of CR) JAa2ukaunk
months every year North or South,
come back half dead (ay) uadLAAtUÁR
of RELAALUhR
homesickness Co4UD., and liveo kUoAprHWpo
sa) next to nothing Curad <redvyRattd
the rest (2 of the year, A few get RJAALSA
 368 THE OYESTER AND THE PEARL
SUNSHINE ENGLISH(Concise-i)
and a
pensions. Every family has a garden
few chickens, and they make a few
dollars LHULudt uYÍA
selling vegetables and eggs. rich, wealthy
well off comfortable, prosperous,

In a town of almost a people there isn't

thousand
one rich man. Not even one who is well ofT(U»r).
And yet these people are the richest 1 have ever

known. Clay doesn't really want money, as you seem K U S i y n . r( s - 4

to think. He wants his father to come home, and he SALLuIGILUsEn2

thinks money will help get his father home. As a
matter of fact his father is the man who stepped
in
cUj-AnyUyeuk {LsN
here just y o u were leaving. He left thirty dollars
for me to give to Clay, to take home.

get along SVi x V | g e t on, be friendly, be in harmony, agree

drunkard, drinker
drunk
kids child, young one, youngster, baby
His father and his mother haven't been getting along uS.¢IALAT6ANLYn
(ttmiv). Clark Larrabee's a fine man. He's - d u s e I L P y g i e
not the town drunk or anything
like that, but
(d) provide for ( Lwtubrfadr2s
having four bide ) to ) he
oPez»Jral»kA
gets to
(tJ ) feeling ashamed () of the
showing he's making. and he starts drinking. He
wants his kids ( ) to live in a good house of their zVololiRéLAnkdoi
owa, wear ( good clothes, and all the other UsUULIZ-YtsuszLJRUNA
things fathers have always wanted for their kids. His Lo4eiuzaLugs
wife wants these things for the kids, too. They don't LugUtsLZU
have these things, so they fight. They had one too
MSdrdIfatudisrdbi
many fights about a month ago, so Clark went off- sK Jbhuy
he's working in Salinas. He's elther going to keep
moving away from his family, or he's going to come
SouRILTU rLbeae
back. It all what. fe UEU-E tSty
depends on-well, 1 don't
know This
oyster may be. Clay may be. (Softly) You and me
may be. (There ka pause () ), He looks at u Q gU tZLo
the oyster Miss McCutcheon looks at it, too.) Clay (gie d s
believes ( Cu) there's a pearl in this oyster for pdisnLzunsp
the same reason you and I believe whatever we
believe to keep us going.
triek dadre. deviee, deoalt. treud
carry out t fulfil, carry through, implement, execute
rmumbo-jumbo .ti nonsense; meaningless, senseless, unintelligible
SUNSHINE ENGLISH (Concise-1) 369 THE OYESTER AND THE PEARL
cultivated
gTaceful, beautiful, lovely, charming. polished
pretend kI sham, feign, fake, simulate, put on
Miss McCutcheon: Are you suggesting
(nç/f)
we play a
trick (Uy)on
Clay, order to (JE) arry out
in

Uyour mumbo-jumbo
(L) idea?
HARRY:
may
Well, be it is
Wozzeek's
a trick. I know
dyunoynlpAspD
got a
few pretty
( good-sized (LNL) -ZdnLmruaAU;L
cultivated P) pearls.
Miss MeCutcheon: You plan to have Wozzeck SnSper ss
pretend (tS24otpE) he has neJSS,LS
found pearl in the
a
when oyster
he opens it, is that it?
HARRY: I plan to get three hundred
dollars to Clay. -LW3o0/Sunay
brea up d tA0 separate, part, split up
Miss McCutcheon: Do you have three
hundred1
dollars?
HARRY Not quite.
Miss McCutcheon: What about the other children UptALUgLNYl l d s
who need money? Do you plan
to put pearls in oysters
Li?yta-ens Pu MCQs
as.

eapers
too? Not just
for them, here in VLALU
O.K.-by-the-Sea. Every where. NCTESP

This isn't the only town in the

world where people are where
uh,VpkdA syo
poo, UURUyILU
fathers and mothers fight, where
families break up (tet At)
So,ON
give up give in, surrender, yield
troubled 300JAqjnie |poor, needy, unhappy. gloomy, joyless
HARRY: No, it isn't, but it's the only UkGvgf¢-Jbgu
town where I live.
Miss McCutcheon: I gdve up (un0). What do
you want me to do?

HARRY Well, could you find it in your. -Sntuiseubsetu?VaG

heart to be just a litde less sure
about things when you talk to fi LALu»zo
the kids mean, the troubled euf?As}tr
( ones? You
around to the truth eaay
get
can dSteu4rsia p
Clay
enough just as soon as he gets Kniadre
ANTAUYe d1L2
dLU2A
his father home.
SUNSHINE ENGLISH (Concise-i) 370 THE OYESTER AND THE PEARL
********
****
[Arthur Applegarth comes in.]
HARRY Judge Applegarth, may I present
(tUSA) Miss MeCutcheon?
THE JUDGE: (removing (LL) his hat
and bowing ( n Jow) An (rLeiztenltig)
honor ( ?), Mis.
Miss McCutcheon: How do you do. Judge.
HARRV: Miss McCutcheon's the new
teacher at school.
THE JUDGE We are honored to have you.
The children, the parents and
the rest ( ) of us.
Miss McCutcheon: Thank you, Judge. (To Harry LoAS ubP i
whispering) IU be back as soon

as I change my clothes
outof mind uls A a frenzied, wild, hysterical, mad, craz
rake up extract, get, gain, have, obtain, attain
HARRY (whispering (2LJ )I
tolkd you not to whisper.
Mis McCutcheon: (whispering). I shall expect
you to give me a poodle haircut. 7=ft(LnLSI) i
HARRY (whispering), Arg,you out of Jqlouy z}sls
our mind(ULudR)? L
Miss McCutcheon: (aloud CATD). Good day,
Judge.
THE JUDGE bowing ( r D ) Good day.
Miss (While he s bent over he
akes uptU)apod logk
(oGo) at her knees ( ) «NUKMErlg)
calves Uy*)ankles}, and LUMn troadu
bowtied S ) sandals. Miss
McCatcheon goes out. Judge
Applegarth looks from the u42
door to Hay) sseLhaiks
batte-ax ad AUT |domineering, autocratic, aruel
bathing SaG| iedaV |lovely, attractive pretty, cha ceful
competition contest, match, game, tourmament
THE JUDGE She won't last (ttt) a month.
HARRY: Why not?
THE JUDGE Too pretty. Our school needs an
ld bertleae 4 y D , e 48iSIIALhfs
the teaehern we had when
went to
school not bathing
beauty (dzl SzU). Well, kWmsJFRLLA
Hary, whar's new?
SUNSHINE ENGLISH (Conclse-1) 371 THE OYESTER AND THE PEARL
HARRY Just the teacher, I guess.
THE JUDGE You know, Harry, the beach
isn't what it used to be, not at
all. I don't mind the
competition
()we're getting from the
kids. It's just that
LidsPor/sms2
G) of the stuff
the quality JotoknLuEntdii
(UL2) the
sea's washing up
isn't
(tuuYD fuzdnielsryspvd
good any more. (He goes
to the door.) ethAsoni)4udu
Wrap | fold, swathe, bundle
HARRY: I don't know. Clay Larrabee
found an oyster this morning. iUUILOYE
THE JUDGE: He did? Well, one oyster((y) vf ydahkiteijh
don't make a stew
Ir2}JDI
Harry. On my way home I'll (euziVAELnl}
drop in (GUSIZ) and let
you see what I find.
HARRY O.K, Judge. (The Judge goes s-rekstE)-LEG
. out. Harry comes to life

(tkt suddenly and hunethrdrlagnIprst

becomes business like.) Now,
for the haircut! (He removes
ut GSPi
(F) the towel () he LLyu resA
had wrapped (C\a) around.
the writer's head.)
shears a heavy tool for cutting, like a big pair of scissors
attendant L.i assistant, helper, servant
THE JUDGE Take your time.
HARRY (He examinessfPs) the Lh1L ts L YY
shears clippers
(oFTEKUKdP), and combs,)
Let's see now. (The writer turns
vhueayugb)
and watches Agasoline station - I ZJU (SPYE
attendant ((U) comes to the V -GQdty
door)
THE ATTENDANT: (t» the writer) Just
wanted to say your car's ready now,.
THE WRITER: Thanks. (The attendant goes
out)Look. Il tell you what. iktH A o)*
How much is a haircut?

remove s take off, pull off

SUNSHINE ENGLISH (Concise-1) 372 THE OYESTER AND THE PEARL
HARRY: Well, the regular price is
dollar. It's too much for a
a
il73
haircut, though, so I generally H-Gu}iekeley
( ) take a half or a quarter. -UnSnshsJugust
THE WRITER: (getting out of
the chair). I've
changed my mind. I don't want vJuLALn 2les)
haircut after all (W), but V#ady4Jps
here's a dollar junt the [ame.
(He hands Harrya
4sadeLjzaDs'}
dollar, and
he himself removes ( t)
the apron.)
HARRY It won't take a minute.
THE WRITER: I know.
compliments S | Nattering remark, praise, ädmiration, flattery
HARRY You don't have to pay
dollar for a hot towel. My
me a
nSuhyLLY
compliments (e P).
THE WRITER: That's O.K. (He goes to the F Ju KKWI)
door.)
HARRY Well, take it easy now. Gy AuTakeit ea
THE WRITER: Thanks: (He stands a moment ale0nrLI)A
D, thinking, then turns.) Do
you mind if I have a look
PD at that oyster?
HARRY Not at all

thoughtfully èi 2 meditatively, broodingly

comment remark, opinion, view, statement
instead of an aternative to,in place of
thin dry branches that are woven together
wicker
gadget L | U E apparatus, instrument, implemeat, tool
goes to the shelf where has
[The writer
the oyster,
Hary
it up, looks at it
x aURthiAS ]
placed picks
thoughtfully (2nr), puts it back without rLa Grznel tUlagd
comment ) , but instead of (2_k)leaving utmipLLMasieispks
the shop he looks around at the stuff in it He
then sits down on a wicker (U) chair in the zLhA Ds»dgu»zdnshuto6
wrma, and lights a cigarette.
THE WRITER:
You know, they/yepot GU) a

zadret o U ) in New aAALLul

York now like a safety razor JLUIIeLAzu
that anybody can give anybody
else a haircut with.
 SUNSHINE ENGLISH (Conclse-I) 373.THE OYESTER AND THE PEARL
HARRY: They have?
THE WRITER: Yeah, there was a full-page ( ) ad
utLALUI f
) about it in last Sunday's Times. AL-LAA
HARRY Is that where you were last Sunday?
THE WRITER: Yeah.
HARRY: You been doing a lot of driving.
THE WRITER: I like to drive. I don't know,
/otut4kUZ
though-those gadgets don't always LU L K ËU
work. They're asking ( u ) two
ninety-five for it. You take a big SGa952i)
family. The father could save a

money giving his kids a haircut.

lot of
f*UE
effectiveness id| SK efficiency, competency, proficiency
HARRY: Sounds like a great idea.
THE WRITER: Question of efflecttveness (trinm. tVLiPLGJ
If the father gives the boy haircut,
A e DVUILE
the boy's ashamed (UnusSe) of, d e o s - n
well, that's not so good.
HARRY: No, a boy likes to get a professional UKE _S
looking haircut all right
THE WRITER. I thought I'd buy one, but I don't know.
HARRY: You got a big family?
THE WRITER: I mean ( )
for myself. I
But e
don't know-there's something to be
said for going to a barber shop once M stALL
<wbsr¥ o
inawhile ( u ) . No use puttng t a J U s E U a
the barbers out of business.
s,
article ( )3 See gadger'above
HARRY Sounds (T) lke pretty
ardcle (Z*), though.
a
()LKFSLKJPz
good
THE WRITER: (etng up lazib) Wel, it's been nice
( ) talking to you.
Worseck, carryinga satchel (), r i L leW)
comes in, followed by Cay, Roxapna,
and GreeleY
WOZZECK What's this all about, Harry?
I've got an oyster I want you to open.
HARRY:
That's what the kids have been telling
WOzZECK
me
He doesn't believe there's a pearl in UMIEUUnie wu
ROXANNA the oyster, ether.