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In 1929,three years after his flight over the North Pole ,the American explorer,R.E.Byde,successfully flew over the South Pole for the first time.Though ,at first,Byde and his men were able to take great many photographs of the mountains that lay below,they soon ran into serious trouble.At one point ,it seemed certain that their plan would crash.It would only get over the mountains if it rose to 10,000 feet .Byde at once ordered his men to throw out two heavy food sacks.The plane was then able to rise and it cleared the mountains by 400feet.Byde now knew that he would be able to reach the South Pole which was 300 miles away,for there were no more mountains in sight .The aircraft was able to fly over the endless white plains without diffculty.

As we had had a long walk through one of the markets of Old Delhi,we stopped at a square to have a rest.After a time,we noticed a snake charmer with two large baskets at the other side of the square,so we went to have a look at him.As soon as he saw us ,he picked up a long pipe which was covered with coins and opened one of the baskets.When he began to play a tune ,we had our first glimpse of the snake.It rose out of the basket and began to follow the movements of the pipe.We were very much surprised when the snake charmer suddenly began to play jazz and mordern pop songs.The snake ,however,continued to ‘dance’slowly.It obviously couldn't tell the difference between Indian music and jazz!

‘do you call that a hat?’i said to my wife . ‘you needn't be so rude about it,’my wife answered as she looked at herself in the mirror. i sat down on one of those modern chairs with holes in it and waited.we had been in the hat shop for half an hour and my wife was sitll in front of the mirror. ‘we mustn't buy things we do not need,’i remarked suddenly .But i regretted saying it almost at once. ‘you needn't have said that,’my wife answered.‘i needn't remind you of that terrible tie you bought yestoday.’ ‘i find it beautiful,’i said .‘a man can never have too many ties.’ ‘and a woman cann't have too many hats,’she answered. ten minutes later we walked out of the shop together.my wife was wearing a hat that looked like a lighthouse.