1.02 Three Brass Pennies Vocabulary Review

One fine day it chanced that he was walking through the forest outside the city, thinking deeply on existence and the universe in general, when he came suddenly face to face with a huge spider web stretched across the path, in who's silky meshes a bee was wound and struggling vainly to be free, while an ugly spider sat in the center and watched its ____ efforts.

Many might have dodged the web and _____ on, leaving the hapless bee to its fate, but Ah Fo was not of this nature.

Many might have dodged the web and sauntered on, leaving the ____ bee to its fate, but Ah Fo was not of this nature.

________, therefore, he took an end of his cotton robe, extracted the bee from the web, and then, not daring to leave it near its enemy, so exhausted was it, he carried it to his home in the city.

Then it ___ on a sheet of blank paper.

After that, it spread its wings and flew out of the window, quite ____ by the dreaming Ah Fo.

It was when that young student awoke from his ____, however, that a surprise awaited him.

He spent the remainder of the day ______ upon the question and lay awake half the night bewildered by the mystery.

He spent the remainder of the day cogitating upon the question and lay awake half the night ____ by the mystery.

Here he found an old, old man, living in the utmost simplicity, who shook hands with himself within his ____ sleeves (as is the Chinese custom of greeting) and bade Ah Fo to enter and be seated.