[00:01.080]--- Lesson 49 The end of a dream
[00:06.600]--- First listen and then answer the question.
[00:12.560]--- How did the dream end?
[00:17.080]Tired of sleeping on the floor, a young man in Teheran saved up for years to buy a real bed.
[00:27.680]For the first time in his life, he became the proud owner of a bed which had springs and a mattress.
[00:38.080]Because the weather was very hot, he carried the bed on to the roof of his house.
[00:45.680]He slept very well for the first two nights, but on the third night, a storm blew up.
[00:54.160]A gust of wind swept the bed off the roof and sent it crashing into the courtyard below.
[01:03.640]The young man did not wake up until the bed had struck the ground.
[01:10.320]Although the bed was smashed to pieces, the man was miraculously unhurt.
[01:17.160]When he woke up, he was still on the mattress.
[01:22.200]Glancing at the bits of wood and metal that lay around him,
[01:26.880]the man sadly picked up the mattress and carried it into his house.
[01:33.320]After he had put it on the floor, he promptly went to sleep again.
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