An elm in our backyard(7)the blight (枯萎病) this summer and dropped stone dead, leafless, almost overnight. One weekend(8)was a normal-looking elm, maybe a little bare in spots but(9)alarming, and the next weekend it was gone, passed over, departed, taken. Taken is right, for the tree surgeon came by yesterday with his(10)of young helpers and their cherry picker, and took it down branch by branch and carted it off in the back of a red truck, everyone(11).
The dying(12)a field mouse, at the jaws of an amiable household cat, is a spectacle I have beheld many times. It(13)to make me wince. However, early in life I gave up throwing sticks(14)the cat to make him drop the mouse,(15)the dropped mouse regularly went ahead and died anyway.
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