1. Sensibly as all ants do, they had ________ the grain during the summer.

2. One day a hare looked at a tortoise and ________ the short feet of the tortoise.

3. All the house dog did was simply to feed himself on the results of the ________ that the hound dog undertook.

4. At the end of the race the tortoise, ________ by all his hard work, was quietly slumbering on the line.

5. When he woke up, he couldn't ________ his eyes because there was the tortoise crossing the finishing line.

6. It wasn't long before the hare fell into a ________ sleep.

7. The moral of this fable is: slow but ________ always wins the race in the end.

8. The ants shook their heads at him and asked him why he hadn't ________ up food in the summer.

9. One of the best known detectives is Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot who uses what he calls his little grey ________ his brains.

10. Whenever the hunter came home, he always gave the house dog a large ________ of what he caught.