Two men travelling through a forest together promised to help each other whatever danger threated them. They had not gone far ______ a bear rushed at them from some bushes. One man was a good ___
___(climb), and quickly climbed a nearby tree, but the other, ___
____(see) that he had no chance alone against the bear, fell flat on his back and pretended to be dead.
The Bear came up to him, sniffed at him.The Bear thought the man was dead,so he went off into the wood again _______ hurting him.When he had gone, the other traveler came down from his tree, and __
____(smile) asked his companion what the Bear ___
___(say) to him. "For I could see," he said, " that he put his mouth close to your ear."
"He told me to tell ______," replied the other, "that you were __
____great coward(懦夫), and that in future I should not trust those ___
__make fine promises, but will not stand by their friends in danger."
Don't trust fine promises _____ you are sure of the person who makes them.