One afternoon just before Christmas, an old gentleman was (36) through the city centre. The gaily (37) shops were packed with good things and crowded with (38) shoppers. The children were gazing in wonder at all the toys on display in the windows, and the old man was (39) the happy scene indulgently. Suddenly in the middle of the throng, he spotted a dirty little boy sitting on the pavement, (40) bitterly. When the kind old man asked him why he was crying, the little boy told him that he had lost a ten penny piece that his uncle had given him. Thrusting his hand into his pocket, the old man pulled out a (41) of coins. He picked out a (42) new ten pennies piece and handed it to file child. "Thank you very much", said the little boy, and (43) his eyes he cheered up at once.
(44) . To his astonishment, he saw the same dirty little boy in precisely the same spot crying just as bitterly as before. (45) . The little boy told him that actually he had not last the second coin, but he still could not find his first ten pence. "If I could find my own ten pence", he said tearfully, "I’d have twenty pence now." (46) .
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He went up to the boy and asked him if he had lost the ten p......