Uncle shifted his wrong doings

Read the statements given below and tick the correct options:   The nail would be found at last, but by that time he would have lost the hammer. "Where's the hammer ? What did I do with the hammer ? Great heavens! Seven of you, gaping round there, and you don"t know what I did ~ with the hammer !" We would find the hammer for him, and then he would have lost sight of r the mark he had made on the wall, where the nail was to go in, and each of us , had to get up on the chair beside him, and see if we could find it ; and we would each discover it in a different place, and he would call us... Show more

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The nail would be found at last, but by that time he would have lost the hammer. "Where's the hammer ? What did I do with the hammer ? Great heavens! Seven of you, gaping round there, and you don"t know what I did ~ with the hammer !"
We would find the hammer for him, and then he would have lost sight of r the mark he had made on the wall, where the nail was to go in, and each of us , had to get up on the chair beside him, and see if we could find it ; and we would each discover it in a different place, and he would call us all fools, one after another, and tell us to get down. And he would take the rule, and remeasure, and find that he wanted half of thirty-one and three-eighths inches from the comer and would try to do it in his head, and go mad.
Aunt Maria would mildly observe that next time Uncle Podger was going to hammer a nail into the wall, she hoped he'd let her know in time, so that she could make arrangements to go and spend a week with her mother while it – was being done.
"Oh ! you women, you make such a fuss over everything," Uncle Podger would reply. "Why, I like doing a little job of this sort."
Finally about midnight, the picture would be up—very crooked and insecure, and everybody dead beat and wretched except a proud Uncle Podger! (249 words)

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