An old gentleman was walking slowly along a street one day when he saw a little boy who was trying to reach a doorbell which was too high for him. He was a kind-hearted old man, so he stopped and said, "I will ring the bell for you", and then he pulled the bell so hard that it could be heard all over the house.

The little boy looked up at him and said, "Now we will run away. Come on", and before the old gentleman knew what was happening, the naughty boy had run round the corner of the street, leaving the man to explain to th angry owner of the house why he had rung the bell.

                               "Mozaika angielska”, 1964

The Shrove Tuesday is celebrated still in Lithuania now. It is seven weeks before Eastier. We eat the pancakes that day, and it is needed much to eat that day before feasting. That day there are carnivals and the Winter must be driven out of the yard: the stuffed winter (scared crow) is fired in the fire that day.  

Editor Mustuke

Many students of English tend to translate phrases and idioms literally, forgetting that they should think in English and drop the bad habit of silently translating word what they are about to say.