English 9 Unit 7&8.2

There was...knock on ...door.

I opened it and found ...small dark man in ...blue overcoat and ...woolen cap.

He said he was . . . employee of . . . gas company and had come to read . . . meter.

But I had . . . suspicion that he wasn't speaking . . . truth because . . . meter readers usually wear . . . peaked caps.

However, I took him to . . . meter, which is in . . . dark corner under . . . stairs.

(. . . meters are usually in . . . dark corners under . . . stairs).

I asked if he had . . . torch; he said he disliked torches and always read . . . meters by . . . light of . . . match.

I remarked that if there was . . . leak in . . . gaspipe there might be . . . explosion while he was reading . . . meter.

He said, 'As . . . matter of . . . fact, there was . . . explosion in . . . last house I visited; and Mr Smith, . . . owner of . . . house, was burnt in . . . face.'

'Mr Smith was holding . . . lighted match at . . . time of . . . explosion.'