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

2. The tortoise agreed that the hare ran as fast as the wind but claimed that he could easily ________ him in a race.

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

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

5. The house dog felt he had to ________ himself in the face of all this criticism.

6. One by one he ________ the innocent until finally the murderer is unmasked.

7. The tortoise never stopped and continued walking at a ________ pace all the time to the end of the race.

8. What made things worse, he continued, was that the house dog never ________ part in any of the hunting.

9. Another way of putting this is how many red ________ the author can throw in the reader's path.

10. The grasshopper was so weak he was practically ________ because he hadn't eaten for ages.