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My neighbor’s children love 16 (play) hide-and-seek(捉迷藏), but no one imagined that a game they played last week would be reported 17 the local newspaper.
One afternoon, they were playing in the vacant plot(空地).Young Paul found a perfect place to hide. His sister, Natalie, had shut her eye and was counting to ten 18 Paul noticed the mailbox and saw that the metal door was standing open. The mailman 19 (take) out several bags of mail and had carried 20 to his truck. Paul climbed 21 the mailbox and pulled the door closed 22 hard that it locked. Soon realizing 23 he had done, he started crying. At that time, Natalie was looking for him everywhere but couldn’t find him. However she happened to hear her brother’s cries. She immediately ran 24 (tell) the mailman. Paul was now free, but he had a bad fright that he could not stop crying. The mailman, 25 , soon found a way of making him laugh again. He told him that the next time he wanted to hide in a mailbox, he should remember to put a stamp on himself!
