| 1) | Mrs. Davis lived near the sea, in Yarmouth, |
| 2) | and went to the same fish shop there for twenty-five years. |
| 3) | She always bought beautiful, fresh fish from that shop, |
| 4) | but then she and her husband went to London and lived there. |
| 5) | She wrote to her friends, |
| 6) | "I'm not going to find nice, fresh fish in the London shops. |
| 7) | They lie there for days and weeks." |
| 8) | There was a fish shop near her house, |
| 9) | and she went and bought her fish there for two or three weeks, |
| 10) | but she did not like them very much. |
| 11) | Then last Wednesday, she went into the shop |
| 12) | and looked at all the fish there. |
| 13) | "These ones aren't fresh," |
| 14) | she said to the shopkeeper. |
| 15) | "Look at them!" |
| 16) | The shopkeeper came and looked. |
| 17) | Then he said angrily, |
| 18) | "That's your fault, not mine. |
| 19) | These same fish were here in this shop last Friday, |
| 20) | but you didn't buy them then, did you? |