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An old man lived in a side street of a small town．Every day after supper，some children would play football in the street．The children were too ____1___ for the old man to have a good rest．
One evening，the old man told the children that he would give them 25 cents each week ____2___ them play football in the street at night．He said，“I am so glad when you play football happily．” This was his ____3___．The boys were ____4___，for they could ____5___ believe that they could ____6___ to do something they enjoyed．
At the end of the ____7___ two weeks，the boys came to the old man's house，find went away each time happily with ____8___ 25 cents．The third week when they came back，however，the old man said he had nearly run out of his money and ____9___ them away with 15 cents．The fourth week，the old man said he was ill and he had spent almost all his money on medicine．He gave the boys only 10 cents．The boys were very ____10___，but there was not much for them to do about it．
At the end of the fifth week，the boys came back again only to get 5 cents．After that，the children never played football in the street again．