Open the brackets putting the verbs in the correct form. (to pass) away and spring (to come) . Now the wild little house (to begin) to feel restless again. "But I (not to think) the good shoemaker and his wife (to like) it, if I (to go) traveling," it (to

Open the brackets putting the verbs in the correct form.\nWinter (to pass) ${ }^{1}$ away and spring (to come) ${ }^{2}$. Now the wild little house (to begin) ${ }^{3}$ to feel restless again. "But I (not to think) ${ }^{4}$ the good shoemaker and his wife (to like) ${ }^{5}$ it, if I (to go) ${ }^{6}$ traveling," it (to think) ${ }^{7}$. \nOne evening when John and his father and mother (to sit) ${ }^{8}$ in the kitchen they (to begin) ${ }^{9}$ to talk about the whole adventure. "It (to be) ${ }^{10}$ a lovely summer, by the sea," (to say) ${ }^{11}$ his mother, "though we (to want) ${ }^{12}$ to come home so much." "Yes, I'd like to go again," (to say) ${ }^{13}$ John, "when we (to have) ${ }^{14}$ summer holidays." "I could (to take) ${ }^{15}$ some work with me and we (can) ${ }^{16}$ (to stay) ${ }^{17}$ for a month," (to say) ${ }^{18}$ the shoemaker sadly. "We (no to have) ${ }^{19}$ enough money to rent a house by the sea, and I (to think) ${ }^{20}$ our wild little house (to become) ${ }^{21}$ a tame little house. I (not to think) ${ }^{22}$ it (to go) ${ }^{23}$ walking again." \nBut it did. When the days (to begin) ${ }^{24}$ to get warm and long, and the winds (to blow) ${ }^{25}$ softly up the hill from the sea, one fine night the wild little house (to start) ${ }^{26}$ down the hill again. It (to reach) ${ }^{27}$ its own little field and (to settle down) ${ }^{28}$ there, and (to stay) ${ }^{29}$ for a whole month. John (to swim) ${ }^{30}$ and (to sail) ${ }^{31}$ in the sea, and his father and mother (to take) ${ }^{32}$ him out fishing nearly every day. \nThen one morning they (to wake up) ${ }^{33}$ to find themselves at home again.\nEvery year the wild little house (to take) ${ }^{34}$ them to the sea. Its legs got a little worn, and the shoemaker (to make) ${ }^{35}$ new ones for it. \nWhen John (to grow up) ${ }^{36}$ and (to become) ${ }^{37}$ a sea-captain himself, the house stopped walking from place to place and stayed at home. It waited for him to come home between voyages, so that it could hear the wonderful stories about strange and terrible adventures he (to have) ${ }^{38}$, and about the different places he (to be) ${ }^{39}$. For in its heart it always (to remain) ${ }^{40}$ a wild little house.