My neighbor’s children love playing hide-and-seek (捉迷藏) as all children do, but no one36that a they played last week would be reported in the local newspaper.
One afternoon, they were playing in the vacant lot (空地)down by the corner. Young Paul, who is only five years old, found the perfect place to37. His sister, Natalie, had38her eyes and was counting to ten when Paul noticed the mail box at the corner and that the metal door was standing open. The mailman had just39several bags of mail and had carried them to his truck which was standing a few feet away. Paul climbed40the mail box and pulled the door closed so hard that it41. Soon realizing what he had done, he became42and started crying. At that time, Natalie was looking for him everywhere but could not find him. It was43that she happened to stand at the corner for a minute and heard her brother’s cries. She44ran to tell the mailman who hurried back from his45to unlock the metal door. Paul was now46, but he had such a bad fright that he could not stop crying. The mailman, however, soon found a way of him47again. He told him that the next time he wanted to hide in a mail box, he should remember to put a stamp on himself!
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