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     My friend Vernon Davies kept birds. One day he phoned and told me he was going away for a week. He asked me to feed   1   birds for him and said that he would leave the key   2   his front door in my

mailbox.

       3   (fortunate), I forgot all about the birds until the night before Vernon was going to return. What

was worse,    4  was already dark when I arrived at his house. I soon found that the key Vernon gave

me could not unlock either the front door    5   the back door. I was getting desperate. I kept thinking

of   6  Vernon would say when he came back.

     I was just going to give up    7   I noticed that one bedroom window was slightly open. I found a

barrel and pushed in under the window. As the barrel was very heavy, I made a lot of noise. But in the

end, I managed to climb   8  and open the window.

     I actually had one leg inside the bedroom when I suddenly realized that someone   9  

(shine) a torch up at me. I looked down and saw a policeman and an old lady, one of Vernon's

neighbours. "What are you doing up there?" said the policeman.    10  (feel) like a complete fool, I

replied, "I was just going to feed Mr Davies' birds."