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Mr. Brown would be away from home for a week. _______ he left, he said to his son, “If anyone comes to visit me, you can tell them that your father is out and will be back in a week. And be _______ to ask them to sit down for a cup of tea.”

“OK, Dad!” said his son. Mr. Brown was afraid his son wouldn’t _______ what he said, so he wrote some words down on a piece of paper. The boy put it into his pocket, took it _______ and looked at it every now and then while his father was away.

Four days passed, but no one came. The boy thought nobody would come to his house. He thought the piece of paper was of no _______, so he threw it away.

The next afternoon, someone knocked on the door. A man was standing at the door and said, “Hello. Where is your father?” The boy put his hand into his pocket at once and _______ the piece of paper. He could not find it. He _______ remembered he had thrown it away, so he shouted, “No more!”

The man was very _______. He said, “No more? I met your father last week. What happened?”