1. A man had two dogs: a hound ________ to help him with his sports and another to guard the house.

2. It was ________ that the tortoise should choose the course and also the end of the race.

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

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

5. Their plan was to eat this ________ during the winter.

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

7. One winter's day when the sun was shining you could hear the ________ of great activity.

8. They were so ________ in their work that they didn't notice a grasshopper.

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

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