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

2. He told the house dog he found it very ________ having to do all the hard work.

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

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

5. The house dog asked him not to pick on him if he wanted to ________ someone.

6. The house dog told him to criticize their master who had taught him not how to work but how to ________ on the work of others.

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

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

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

10. The hare shot ahead and then decided to ________ down at the side of the path for a rest.