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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."
