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One afternoon just before Christmas, an old man was walking 1 the city center.The shop were
all 2 of good things and crowded with 3 shoppers. Sunddenly he saw a dirty boy 4 on the
ground crying sadly. When the kind old man asked him why he was crying, the little boy told him that
he had 5 a ten-penny (便士) piece that his uncle had 6 him. At once the old man pulled out a handful
of coins. He 7 out a shining new ten-penny piece and handed it to the poor child."Thank you very
much," said the little boy, drying his 8 . He cheered up at once.
About an hour 9 , the old man was making his way 10 home by the same road.
To his 11 , he saw the dirty boy in the same place, crying sadly as 12 . He went up to the boy and
asked him 13 he had lost ten-penny piece he had just given him as well. The boy told him that he had not
lost the second coin 14 he still couldn't find the first one. "If I could find my own piece," he cried, "I would
have 15 pennies now." |
