Anna lived on the side of a valley. One winter, there was a very big flood, and a lot of h

Anna lived on the side of a valley. One winter, there was a very big flood, and a lot of houses 36  Anna's were washed away. Anna's house was high enough to escape the flood, so when the water had disappeared and the other houses were     37  there with no roof and no walls and all covered with     38 , her house was  39  quite all right.
Her house was quite small, her husband was dead, and she had four children ,  40 Anna took in one of the families that had lost  41 in the flood and she 42 her home with them until it was  43  for them to rebuild their houses.
Anna's friends were  44  when they saw Anna do this. They could not understand why Anna wanted to give  45 so much more work and trouble when she already had quite a few children to  46  .
Well, Anna  47 her friends, at the end of the First World War, a woman in the town where I 48  lived found herself very poor, because her husband  49  in the war and she had a lot of children,  50  I have now. The day before Christams, this woman said to her children, ‘We won’t be able to have much for  51  this year, so I’m going to  52  only one present for all of us. Now I’ll go and get it.’ She came back  53  a girl who was even poorer than they, and who had no parents. ‘Here’s our present, ’ she said to her children. The children were  54  to get such a present. They weled the little girl, and she grew up as their sister.  55  was that Christmas present.
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