The Legend of Crying Stone
Once upon a time in Borneo, there 1____ (live )a poor widow and her daughter. The girl 2___( is )really beautiful. However, she was very lazy and spoiled. She loved to dress up every day, but never helped her mother.
One day, they 3___(go ) down to a village for buy something. A market was far away from their house. They walked there.
The girl got dressed very nice and walked in front of her mother. While the mother 4___(walk) behind, carried a basket, wore dirty clothes. Nobody 5___( know) they were mother and daughter.
While entering the nearby village, people looked at them. Young men were so fascinated by girl’s beauty. However, she was in contrast to a woman walking behind her. It 6___(make) people wonder.
Some young men asked her whether woman was her mother. But the girl arrogantly replied that the old woman was her maid. More people asked her along the way to market. She 7___(give) a same answer that her mother was her slave.
Eventually, the mother was really hurt to hear her daughter’s answer. Mother 8___(pray) to God to punish her ungodly daughter.
Suddenly, girl 9___(stop) then slowly turned to be a stone. The daughter cried and apologized to her mother.
But it was too late. The pretty girl was turned into a stone forever but 10.___(continue) to tear her regret to her mother.
