ΐ bξσ who worked in ΰ shop in ΰ country-town (send) .bσ his master to the house of ΰ rich customer with ΰ valuable ring.
"(not open) the bξυ," the shopkeeper (tell) . the bξσ. "If you (lose) . the ring you (punish) .. ." The boy's way (be) . across ΰ large park through which (flow) ΰ stream. As the bξσ (cross) the bridge he foolishly (take) .. the ring out of the bξυ as he (want) to have ΰ look at it. While he (do) . so. the ring (slip) .. out of his hand and (fall) .into the mud on the bank of the stream. Νε (try) .. to find it for ΰ long time but couldnt do it.
At last darkness made him stop his search. "If my master (learn) ..it he (kill) .me,'' (think) . the poor bξσ. Νε (bε) .. so frightened that he (decide) .that he never (return) .home. He (run) . away and (become) ..ΰ sailor.
Νe (spend) ..many years in America and (become) very rich. But still he (dream) that one day he (go) ..back to his home country. And so he (dξ) . . Νε (buσ) the estate with the stream into which he (drop) . the ring as ΰ bξσ.
One day when he and his friend (walk) .along the bank of the stream, they (come) to the place where he (1ose) .the ring. Νε (push) his stick* into the mud exclaiming: "I (be) ..absolutely sure that it (be) the exact spot** where I (lose) the ring. And when he (pull) .. it out he (see) .. the ring (hang) at the end of it.
*stick - οΰλκΰ
**spot - μερςξ