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Anna lived on the side of a valley. One summer, there was a very big1, an d a lot of houses downbelow Anna's were washed away. Anna's house was2enough to escape the flood, so when the water had3 and the other houses were standing there4no roof and no walls and all covered with mud(泥), her house was just all right. Her house was quite small, her husband was dead, and she had four children,5Anna took in one of the families that had lost6in the flood and she7her home with them until it was8for them to rebuild their house. Anna's friends were9when they saw Anna do this. They could not understand why Anna wanted to give 10 so much more work and trouble when she already had quite a few children to11. "Well," Anna12 her friends, "at the end of the First World War, a woman in the town where I then lived found herself very13 , because her husband had been killed in the14 and she had a lot of children,15 I have now. The day before Christmas, this woman said to her children, 'We won't be able to have much for16 this year, so I'm going to make only one present to all of us. Now I'll go and get it.' She came back with a 17 who was even poorer than they, and who had no parents. 'Here's our18 ,' she said to her children. The children were 19 and happy to get such a present. They20the little girl, and she grew up as their sister. Such was that Christmas present." | ||||
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