Задание

Read the text and fill in the missing word.

Witches' loaves

Miss Martha Meacham had a small bakery. She was 30 _______ very rich nor very poor. She had two thousand dollars in the bank.

Miss Martha was forty years old. She had a kind heart, and only two of her teeth were 31 _______. Although she was still unmarried she hoped to 32 _______ married some time.

Two or three times a week a customer came 33 _______ to buy some bread. He was a middle-aged man with a beard and he 34 _______ glasses.

Soon Miss Martha began to 35 _______ an interest in him. He spoke English with a strong German accent. His clothes were old but clean, and he had good 36 _______.

He always bought two loaves of stale bread. Fresh bread was five cents a loaf. Stale bread was two loaves for five cents. The customer never bought fresh bread.

Once Miss Martha saw red and brown 37 _______ on his hands. She was sure then that he was an artist and very poor. She was sure he lived in a cold room where he painted his pictures. He ate stale bread and thought 38 _______ the good things that were sold in Miss Martha’s bak­ery. When she sat down to dinner or had tea and jam, she used to think of the poor artist with good manners and feel sorry 39 _______ him. She wanted to share all the good things she had with the well-mannered man. I have told you already that Miss Martha had a kind heart.

He spoke English with a strong German accent. His clothes were old but clean and he had good 36 _______.

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