A Dog's Tale

 Last Saturday, Simon, Helen, Matt, Jane, David, and Julia watched a horror film. Helen was too frightened but everyone else enjoyed it. Then David turned off the television and said that the film liked a rubbish because in a horror film, they do stupid things. But, Julia said the film was very well made. Helen asked everyone who want coffee, and she asked Simon to make it for they. Simon wanted to go to the kitchen, but suddenly, David stop him and said “If I were you, I wouldn’t go to the kitchen. Because, there might be a ghost in this house.” Simon looked scary, and Julia asked David “What kind of ghost?” David answered “It’s a dog ghost”.

Then, David told everybody that before that house was built 120 years later, they used to be an old cottage there. In that cottage, lived an old man with his large black dog. Everywhere he went, the dog always followed him. One day, the old man was killed by an accident. A new family moved on to that cottage, and the dog was taken away by old man’s sister. But in the first evening, the dog went back to the cottage and started howling. The owner chased away the dog. Everytime the owner chased away the dog, everynight he came back and howling.

Not long after that, the cottage was destroy by a fire. Ten years later, the house was built. When they building the house, they found a skeleton of large dog in the cellar. And neighbour says, that sometimes they heard a dog howling late at night.

Everybody never know that story before, except David (of course) and Matt. Matt said that he heard the story from his neighbour. Simon didn’t believe that story and he went to the kitchen.

On the way to the kitchen, Simon heard a dog howling. Actually, the voice of dog howling was from his friends and he knew that. When Simon making the coffee, Matt came to make toast bread. Simon said to Matt, that he sometimes heard a dog howling late at night and he thing that voice came from the house. Matt believed him and scared, then Simon left him alone in the kitchen. Suddenly, Jane came to took some biscuits. Matt jumped and shocked, because he though Jane was a ghost. Jane confused with Matt, and she asked “Are you alright, Matt?” Matt said “yeah, I’m alright.” Then, she said again “If I were you, I wouldn’t turn off the light in your bedroom tonight.” And she left him.

At night, Matt went to sleep in his bedroom and he turned off the light. In the middle of night, he heard a dog howling and he was scare. He can’t sleep well untill the next day and he looked very tired with some reason.

This is a story from New Headway, Pre-Intermediate episode 5

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