Anna lived on the side of a valley. One winter, there was a very big flood, and a lot of houses 1 Anna's were washed away. Anna's house was high enough to escape the flood, so when the water had disappeared and the other houses were 2 there with no roof and no walls and all covered with 3 , her house was 4 quite all right. Her house was quite small, her husband was dead, and she had four children , 5 Anna took in one of the families that had lost 6 in the flood and she 7 her home with them until it was 8 for them to rebuild their houses. Anna's friends were 9 when they saw Anna do this. They could not understand why Anna wanted to give 10 so much more work and trouble when she already had quite a few children to 11 "Well," Anna 12 her friends, "at the end of the First World War, a woman in the town where I 13 lived found herself very poor, because her husband 14 in the war and she had a lot of children, 15 I have now. The day before Christmas, this woman said to her children, ‘We won’t be able to have much for 16 this year, so I’m going to 17 only one present for all of us. Now I’ll go and get it.’ She came back 18 a girl who was even poorer than they, and who had no parents. ‘Here’s our present, ’ she said to her children. The children were 19 to get such a present. They welcomed the little girl, and she grew up as their sister. 20 was that Christmas present. ”