1. 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.

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

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

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

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

6. The thing that always surprises me is the fact that the murderer bothers to take ________ in the final meeting.

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

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

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

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