6. Fill in an appropriate word:

afford, to corner, sourdough, apiece, to drive, dried, moccasins, retail, to buy, to languish, purchasing. Breakfast, pot, to hold, cream.

1. Ham and one egg, three dollars. Ham and two eggs, five dollars. That means two dollars an egg, __1_­_. Only the swells and the Arrals and the Wild Waters can ­­__2__ them. I have __3__ every morning at eleven o'clock at Slavovitch's. I invariably eat two eggs. Suppose, somebody ___4___ eggs. You know Wild Water. When he sees I __5__ for eggs, and I know his mind like a book, and I know how to languish.

2. Smoke had been more liberal in __6__. He unblushingly pleaded guilty to having given the old man in Klondike City five dollars __7__ for his seventy-two eggs. Shorty had __8___most of the eggs, and he had __9__bargains. He had given only two dollars an egg to the woman who made __10___, and he prided himself that he had come off fairly well with Slavovitch, whose seven hundred and fifteen eggs he had bought at a flat rate of two dollars and a half. On the other hand, he grumbled because the little restaurant across the street had __11__him up for two dollars and seventy-five cents for a paltry hundred and thirty-four egg.

3. That noon, up in their cabin, Shorty placed on the table a __12__ of beans, a pan of __13___biscuits, a tin of butter and a tin of condensed __14__, a smoking platter of moose-meat and bacon, a plate of stewed __15__ peaches, and called: "Grub's ready. Take a slant at Sally first." 

7. Match the antonym pairs:

white retail

wholesale high living soft-boiled egg selling

hard-boiled egg indigence purchase yolk

8. Give a list of egg dishes.

9. Speak about the characters of the story:

- Describe Lucille Arral.

- Describe Mr. Wild Water.

- Describe Smoke.

- Describe Shorty.

10. Make a summary of the story.

11. Answer the following questions:

1. Where is the story set?

2. Who initiate the speculation?

3. Why do they need this fraud?

4. What is the moral of the story?

5. Are you sorry for Smoke and Shorty?

6. Which character do you like more? Why?

7. What can you say about the language the author uses?

12. Say if the sentences are true or false:

1. Smoke and Shortly were going to laugh on Wild Water, subdue his turbulence and share the glory of it, and wake up Dawson with a grand.

2. Dawson was short of eggs, so that is why the price of them was two dollars for item.

3. Wild Water 's a good actor--a gosh-blamed good actor the singing soubrette of the tiny stock company that performed nightly at the Palace Opera House.

4. The contract did not mention the number of eggs to be delivered. Mr. Wild Water agreed to pay eight dollars for every delivered egg.

5. Smoke and Shortly didn't know about those other eggs until afterward and had to buy them in order to make our corner good for ten dollars for a egg..

6. Having reached three thousand two hundred eggs, Wild Water suddenly cracked one on the edge of table and opened it deftly with his thumbs.

7.  That three thousand eggs were delivered four years before.

8. Smoke and Shortly lost seventeen thousand dollars on the flutter.