Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Once upon a time there was a little boy who had a rock. The rock was his favorite toy. He would throw his rock at trees, or roll his rock down hills. Sometimes he would stand at the river shore, dropping his rock in the water. He thought it was great fun to listen to the rock splash.

One day, the little boy met a brown cow. "Moo!" said the cow.

"Hello," said the boy. "Would you like to see my rock?"

The boy held out his rock for the cow to see. The cow looked at it. Then it picked it up in its mouth.

"Moo," said the cow.

"Hey," the boy said. "Give me back my rock!"

The boy tried to pull open the cow's mouth. Then he tried sticking his fingers in the cow's nose, so it would open its mouth to breathe. Then he tried tickling the cow, but it wouldn't open its mouth.

"Moo," it said. Then it swallowed the rock, and the little boy went home and cried.

1. Who did the little boy meet?
2. What did it say?
3. What did the young lad reply?
4. What did the lad show him?
5. What did he do next
6. What did the animal do when he saw it?
7. Was the lad happy?
8. What did the lad say next?
9. What did the lad do to the animal to get his rock?
10. What did he do next to the animals nostrils
11. Why?
12. Then what did he try?
13. Did that work?
14. What did it say then?
15. What happened to the boy's possession?
16. Who swallowed it?
17. Where did the lad go next?
18. What did he do when he got there?

Numbered answers:
1. a brown cow
2. Moo
3. Hey
4. his rock
5. held out his rock
6. picked it up in its mouth
7. No
8. unknown
9. pull open the cow's mouth
10. sticking his fingers in
11. so it would open its mouth to breathe
12. tickling
13. it wouldn't open its mouth
14. Moo
15. swallowed
16. the cow
17. home
18. cried