Use the words in the box to fill in the blanks!Long ago, a man (1) ... Urashima Tarō found a turtle on the beach being toyed with by a group of children. He purchased the turtle and (2) ... it in the ocean.

Two or three days later, while he was fishing on a boat as always, the grateful turtle (3) ... and told him that he would carry him on his back to the underwater Dragon Palace. At the palace, the princess, Otohime, thanked him for (4) ... the turtle.

After an unspecified number of days, remembrance of his mother and father (5) ... him homesick and he bid farewell to Otohime. The princess tried to dissuade him from (6) ... but she finally let him go with a parting gift, a mysterious box called tamatebako whose lid he was told never to (7) ...

When Tarō returned to his hometown, everything had (8) ... . His home was gone, his mother and father had perished, and the people he knew were nowhere to be (9) ... . Not remembering the princess's warning, he lifted the lid of the box. A cloud of white smoke arose, (10) ... him to a white-haired old man.



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