A farmer once organized a competition between his dog and his rabbit. He dug a hole in one of his biggest fields, and hid a carrot and a bone in it. He wanted to see __________ animal would find them first.
The __________(cheer) and optimistic rabbit threw himself into looking for the carrot, __________(dig) here and there, totally convinced that he would find it. But the dog, after sniffing around for a bit, __________(lie) down and began to complain about how difficult it was to find one bone in such a big field.
The rabbit dug __________ hours, and with every new hole the dog complained even more about how difficult this was, even for the rabbit. __________ the rabbit thought that each hole dug was one hole less that needed digging. When there was no place in the whole field__________(leave) to dig, the rabbit dug a tunnel right to __________ the dog had been lying all the time. There he found the carrot and the bone.
This is how the dog lost the game. He had come to __________ right place at the very beginning but failed to find the bone __________ he only complained and didn't try at all.