cheaply. He gave his donkey less food, and when after two days the donkey 4 just the same, he

5 to himself, "The donkey was used to 6 a lot. Now he is quickly getting used to eating less,

and soon he will get used to living 7 almost nothing." Each day Tony gave the donkey a little 8

food, until it was hardly eating anything.

Then one day, when the donkey was going to the market with a load of wood on its back, it

suddenly 9 . "How unlucky I am," said Tony. "Just when my donkey had got used to eating hardly

anything, it came 10 the end of its days in this world. "