Read the text and fill in the gaps with suitable words.

It was Saturday and a ... summer day. Everyone was on holiday, everyone was happy. Well, almost everyone. Tom looked at the fence in front of him and the ... left his heart. Thirty yards long and nine ... high! He began to paint and then stopped to compare his white line with the unending continent of ... fence. He sat down under a tree, discouraged. At that moment he saw Jim ... along with a bucket of water. Tom had always considered the job of fetching water from the village pump boring, but now it seemed much better than the job he had to do.