1. Tuesday my brother heard an interesting story, and Wednesday evening after a pleasant walk he related it to me. 2. The story is, that many years ago God made the beautiful new world, and gave it to the seasons. 3. They laughed for joy, and said that they would guard it well. 4. They were ready for pleasure, and also were willing (volis) to work energetically for-the-sake-of the new young world. 5. Almost a year they were happy, but these seasons were too diverse, and could not long remain friends. 6. The brilliant summer wept and reproached the tired autumn. 7. The autumn preferred to rest, and disliked the muddy weather of the inconstant spring. 8. The quiet winter concealed itself beneath the frost and soft white snow, and wished to sleep. 9. The longer they kept the world among them, the more they quarreled. 10. Soon the autumn made the proposition, "We will divide the world." 11. Immediately that morning the seasons divided the world among themselves. 12. The northern and southern lands now belong to the winter, and the middle of the world belongs to the summer. 13. The spring and autumn took for themselves those lands between the winter and summer.
LESSON XXII.
CLAUSES EXPRESSING DURATION OF TIME.
96. The time during which an act takes place or a condition exists may be expressed not only by an adverb or accusative of time (91), or by use of the preposition dum, but also by a clause introduced by dum:
Li venis dum vi forestis, he came while (during-the-time-that) you were away.
Dum la sezonoj malpacis, ili forgesis pri la mondo, while the seasons quarreled, they forgot about the world.
Ni ridas pro ĝojo dum neĝas, we laugh for joy while it is snowing.
CLAUSES EXPRESSING ANTICIPATION.
97. A clause expressing an action or condition as preceding or anticipating that of the main verb is introduced by antaŭ ol:
Mi foriros antaŭ ol vi venos, I shall depart before you (will) come.
Antaŭ ol vi riproĉis lin, li ne ploris, before you reproached him, he did not weep.
Vi ploris antaŭ ol vi ridis, you wept before (sooner than) you laughed.
THE INFINITIVE WITH ANSTATAŬ, POR, ANTAŬ OL.
98. An infinitive may be substantively used with anstataŭ to express substitution, with por to express purpose (Cf. Old English "But what went ye out for to see," Matt. xi, 8), and with antaŭ ol to express anticipation. It is usually translated by the English infinitive in -ing: