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

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

3. The detective story is sometimes called 'whodunit'because the reader has to work ________ who did it, who committed the crime.

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

5. The hound dog was very ________ about this.

6. One of the best known detectives is Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot who uses what he calls his little grey ________ his brains.

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

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

9. The poor grasshopper ________ he had spent the whole summer enjoying himself singing and dancing.

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