TRUSTY COURSE

Mr. and Mrs Yates lived together f very or 52 year, and then she became.......After a month she ......and Mr Yates was alone. it was ......for him to live in a big house without anybody else, so he married again. His new .............was much younger than he was, and she liked .............to foreign countries, so they began to go to Africa every ....., in the winter. Mrs Yates had a younger .... and she usually went with them too. Everybody thought, " Those girls are that old man's ....... One day in Kenya a man said to him,"Do you .......me? I was your neighbour in Southampton." Mr. Yates did not answer for a few second, because he was ...... Then he said, ' Oh, yes! That's right! I married your daughter, didn't I ?

A. Answer the questions. 1. Why did Mr Yates not remember things very well? 2. Where did his friends live? 3. Who were ill when Mr. and Mrs Yates visited Spain another time? 4. Who really died then? 5. Was the girl having a joke with Mr. Yates?

Mr. Yates was nearly ninety, so it was often difficult for him to remember things,but he still liked travelling very much, so he and his wife went to Spain every year. One summer when they were there, they went to visit some friends. These people had two young daughters. One afternoon Mr. Yates was talking to one of the girls in the garden after lunch."You and your sister were ill when mu wife and I were here last year, weren't you?" he said to her., "Yes, we were,' answered the girl." we were very ill." The old man said nothing for a minute, because he was thinking. Then at last he said," Oh, yes, i remember now! One of you died. Which one of you was it, you or your sister?" The girl answered, " It was me." " Oh ? I'm sorry to hear it," said the old man.