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5) Fill in the blanks based on what you listen: "The Rest of the Story," is a captivating ABC Radio story that started in 1953 by a veteran radio commentator Paul Harvey.
Once upon a time in the gentle foothills of America’s Ozarks Mountains there live a widow. Her home was a ______________ farm cabin which she had shared with her husband but now she lives alone in a world.
One morning toward the hour of noon, three men rode on the horse back into the farmyard. One of the men ____________________ and knocked on the cabin door and explained to the widow that he and his friends were hungry for a hot home cooked meal. Would it be too much trouble that if she’d mind cooking such a meal for them?
When the widow was resistant first and the strangers did appear hungry and they were very polite, so she explained there wasn’t much food in the cabin but they were welcomed to what food she did have. The men expressed their gratitude, and once inside the cabin they were even more deeply __________ by the widow’s generosity. She was obviously painfully poor.
The little evidences of her lonely struggle to survive were everywhere - the mirror, furnishings, the supply cabinets almost empty. One of the travelers noticed the tear on the widow’s _____ and asked the matter and she responded in this way she said; “nobody she had in that table since her husband death and now having men in the cabin again it just reminded her of happier times.” And there was something else and at this point the widow began to _______.
At 4 o’clock that very afternoon she would be without her home. In less than 4 hours, the man who held the _____________ to her farm would come to ______________________.
Eight hundred dollars remained on the mortgage, a hundred times more that she could _________________ to pay.
Well, the travelers stared at each other and I see a shame of silence: “How could they have imposed upon a woman who was already hit with such ______________.”
When they finished their meal and thanked the widow for her hospitality in the shadows of the mid- afternoon. One of the men class the widow’s hand in departing, he said: ”You remind me so much of my own mother”, and into her other hand he gently placed a roll of bills: 800 American dollars.
“When that man comes for his money you be sure to get a ___________ now, do you hear?”
Those were the last words the stranger spoke to her as he mounted his horse and the widow watched him smiling through incredulous _______________ tears as he and his fellow travelers rode off down the dusty country road.
What I just related, the experienced of the widow’s mortgage and the generous strange occurred in the late 1870’s in the foothills of the Ozarks Mountain. Now let me add this single incident: You see when the fellow who had held the mortgage on the widow’s farm. When he came and got his money and departed the property, paid them full - he carried with him the 800 dollars. He was robbed on the road in the woods nearby. He was robbed with all the money of this person and he was robbed by the same person who had given the widow the money - the traveler, the stranger, the mysterious ____________________. At least, once in that mysterious stranger’s life, he was a ____________________ real life Robin Hood: taking from the rich and giving to the poor.
For the mysterious benefactor was Jesse James. And now you know the Rest of the Story.
5) Fill in the blanks based on what you listen: "The Rest of the Story," is a captivating ABC Radio story that started in 1953 by a veteran radio commentator Paul Harvey.
Once upon a time in the gentle foothills of America’s Ozarks Mountains there live a widow. Her home was a ______________ farm cabin which she had shared with her husband but now she lives alone in a world.
One morning toward the hour of noon, three men rode on the horse back into the farmyard. One of the men ____________________ and knocked on the cabin door and explained to the widow that he and his friends were hungry for a hot home cooked meal. Would it be too much trouble that if she’d mind cooking such a meal for them?
When the widow was resistant first and the strangers did appear hungry and they were very polite, so she explained there wasn’t much food in the cabin but they were welcomed to what food she did have. The men expressed their gratitude, and once inside the cabin they were even more deeply __________ by the widow’s generosity. She was obviously painfully poor.
The little evidences of her lonely struggle to survive were everywhere - the mirror, furnishings, the supply cabinets almost empty. One of the travelers noticed the tear on the widow’s _____ and asked the matter and she responded in this way she said; “nobody she had in that table since her husband death and now having men in the cabin again it just reminded her of happier times.” And there was something else and at this point the widow began to _______.
At 4 o’clock that very afternoon she would be without her home. In less than 4 hours, the man who held the _____________ to her farm would come to ______________________.
Eight hundred dollars remained on the mortgage, a hundred times more that she could _________________ to pay.
Well, the travelers stared at each other and I see a shame of silence: “How could they have imposed upon a woman who was already hit with such ______________.”
When they finished their meal and thanked the widow for her hospitality in the shadows of the mid- afternoon. One of the men class the widow’s hand in departing, he said: ”You remind me so much of my own mother”, and into her other hand he gently placed a roll of bills: 800 American dollars.
“When that man comes for his money you be sure to get a ___________ now, do you hear?”
Those were the last words the stranger spoke to her as he mounted his horse and the widow watched him smiling through incredulous _______________ tears as he and his fellow travelers rode off down the dusty country road.
What I just related, the experienced of the widow’s mortgage and the generous strange occurred in the late 1870’s in the foothills of the Ozarks Mountain. Now let me add this single incident: You see when the fellow who had held the mortgage on the widow’s farm. When he came and got his money and departed the property, paid them full - he carried with him the 800 dollars. He was robbed on the road in the woods nearby. He was robbed with all the money of this person and he was robbed by the same person who had given the widow the money - the traveler, the stranger, the mysterious ____________________. At least, once in that mysterious stranger’s life, he was a ____________________ real life Robin Hood: taking from the rich and giving to the poor.
For the mysterious benefactor was Jesse James. And now you know the Rest of the Story.
