Skill : Reading Comprehension
No. 12
Miss Gamma said I needed a haircut; my mother said I need a haircut; my brother Krikor said I needed a haircut. The whole world wanted me to get a haircut. My head was too big for the world. "Too much black hair," the world said. Everybody said, "when are you going to get a haircut?"
There was a big business man in our town named Huntingdon, who used to buy an evening paper from me every day. He was a man, who weighed two hundred and forty pounds, owned two Cadillacs, six hundred acres, and had over a million dollars in the Valley Bank, as well as a small head without hair, right on top of him where everybody could see it. He used to make railroad men from out of town walk a long way to see my head. "There's California for you," he used to shout in the street. "There's good weather and health. There's hair on head," he used to roar.
Miss Gamma was bitter about the size of my head. "I'm not mentioning any names," she said one day, "but unless a certain young man in this class visits a barber one of these days and has his hair cut, he will be sent to a worse place than this."
He thought Mr. Huntingdon _________ .
loved him
hated him
was jealous of his hair
did not want to see him
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