1. The moral of this fable is: you mustn't ________ children for the mistakes of their parents.

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

3. The skill of course of the writing is how many times a reader can be sent up ________ alleys.

4. He also made ________ of the slow pace at which the tortoise travelled.

5. The idea is to keep the readers in a permanent state of ________ so that they never know what's going to happen next.

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

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

8. What you could hear was the ants who were ________ drying grain.

9. Invariably Poirots calls all the ________ together in the last part of the story.

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