nnot. This is very lucky for
Nellie's kitten. Every time Joe's big dog comes along the kitten climbs
a tree and the............. cannot follow.

3 Anna had never seen a squirrel in her life, although she had always
wanted to very much. One day when she was playing under a tree she
heard a funny little noise over her head. She looked up, and what do
you think she saw? Up there in the............. was the very thing she
had always wanted to see, a..............

4 John and Joe played one day till they were very hungry; so John went
into the house and asked his mother for something to..............
When he came out again he had a big apple for himself and another for
..............

5 One day when Jane was sweeping she found a dime on the floor under the
bed. They could not find out whose dime it was, so Jane's mother gave
it to her. Now, every time Jane............. the floor she looks
carefully under the bed for another..............

6 Helen and Kate pulled their sled through the deep snow to the top of the
hill and soon were coasting swiftly down again. They did this over and
over. The............. was so deep that they found it hard work to
drag the............. to the top.

7 Once a black raven wanted to have white feathers like a swan. The raven
saw that the swan lived in the water, and thought it was the water that
made the swan's feathers so white. So the............. decided to wash
his feathers every day to see if it would not make them..............

8 Birds' eggs are almost as different from each other as are the birds
themselves. The robin lays four or five blue eggs. The dove lays two
white eggs. The sparrow lays six or eight speckled eggs. If we should
find a nest with four blue eggs in it, we could be pretty sure that it
was the nest of a............. rather than of a............. or dove.

9 Once there lived on a mountain near a village an immense giant whose
cruelty kept the people of the village in great terror. However, there
was one person in the village who was not afraid of the giant. This was
a young soldier who carried a magic sword that a fairy had given him.
Once when the............. came down from the............. the
soldier attacked him with his magic............. and killed him.

10 Once a hen was so foolish as to go to a fox and ask him to look after
her chicks while she went to the barnyard t