GRAMMAR e grass beside him. In ten seconds he ...13... completely his appetite and ...14... one hundred thousand dollars. The squirrel which ...15... with annoying persistence to become food, ...16. him a present of a large and perfect diamond. Late that night he ...17... his way to camp and twelve hours later all the males among his arkies were back by the squirrel hole digging furiously at the side of the mountain. He ...18. them he ...19... a rhinestone mine, and, as only one or two of them ...20... (ever) even a small diamond, they ...21... him, without a question. When the magnitude of his discovery ...22. apparent to him, he ...23... himself in a quandary. The mountain was a diamond - it was nothing else but solid diamond. He ...24... four saddle bags full of glittering samples and -..25... on horseback to St. Paul. Thére he ...26... to dispose of halfa dozen small stones, When he ...27... a larger one a storekeeper ...28... and Fitz-Norman ,..29... as a public disturber. He ...30... from jail and ...31... the train for New York, where he ...32... a few medium-sized diamonds and ...33... in exchange about two hundred thousand dollars in gold. But he ...34... to produce any exceptional gems - in fact he ...35... New York just in time. Tremendous excitement ...36... in jewellery circles, not so much by the size of his diamonds as by their appearance in the city from mysterious sources. Wild rumours ...37... current that a diamond mine ...38... in the Catskills, on the Jersey Coast, on Long Island, beneath Washington Square. Excursion trains, packed with men carrying picks and shovels ...39... to leave New York hourly, bound for various neighbouring El Dorados. But by that time young Fitz-Norman was on his way back to Montana. By the end of a fortnight he ...40... that the diamond in the mountain was approximately ‘equal in quantity to all the rest of the diamonds known to exist in the world. There was no valuing it by any regular computation, however, for it was one solid diamond ~ and if it ...41 for sale not only ...42... (the bottom) out of the market, but also, ifthe value ...43... with its Size in the usual arithmetical progression, there would not be enough gold in the world to buy tenth part of it. And what ...44... anyone do with a diamond that size? F Scott Fitzgerald, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz