Smith was a landlord （地主）. He loved money very much and never____anything to anybody.Soon he became rich．

One day the weather was fine.There wasn't a cloud in the sky and the sun was very warm. The landlord was walking____a river with three of his friends, when, all of a sudden, he slipped and fell into it. He cried, "Help! Help! "One of his____held out his hand and said,"Give me ____hand and I will pull you out. "The landlord's head went under the water and then came up again, but he did not give his hand to his friends. Then___of his friends tried but the same thing happened.

Just then a farmer came over and saw all this. He knew the landlord very____. He said to the others, "Let me try. "He held out his hand and said to the landlord, "____ my hand and I will pull you out." Hearing this, the landlord took the farmer's hand, and in____ minute the farmer pulled the landlord out of the water.

All the others got very ____ at this and asked the farmer, "Why did he give his hand to you_____ not to us?"The farmer said, "You don't know your friend very well. When you say 'give to' him, he does nothing, but when you say 'take', he takes."