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Directions:

Read the story below. Then place the number (starting with 1) on the lines below to correctly order the events as they happened in the story.

It had been a long time since Nate, the mayor of the village, had really wanted to keep his job. He thought, “Why am I still doing this?” Maybe it was the fact that Thor, his boyhood enemy, was always criticizing everything he did as Mayor.

When he was twelve years old his father took him to see Dragon’s Cave. Every mayor found an heir, his son or not, and when the boy was twelve the two of them would struggle up the mountain to the cave, the mayor telling the history of the village’s dealings with the dragon.

"Your job is to keep the dragon happy, every village around here makes sure of that. They give up a sheep or cow. It doesn't have to be your best, it just has to fill the dragon’s stomach.”

"What do we get out of it?"

"Well, we don't get eaten.” The mayor would look at the boy who was going to end up with the job. “Before we worked out this deal, once a year the dragon would fly, and if we were lucky, a few of us would survive.”

Nate and his father stood high on the mountain, near the entrance to Dragon’s Cave. His father continued, telling him the story about how the village first made a deal with the dragon.

A long time ago, the first mayor got an idea. He went up to Dragon’s Cave, after the dragon was tired and sleepy, and he said, “Aren't you tired of always having to fly down, chasing people?”

Soon the other villages in the area learned of their deal and they too offered their livestock. It made things a lot easier. Pretty soon all they had to do was put something out once every three or four months, and the dragon left them alone. But their's was a poor village and there wasn't much for them to eat, even before they’d started paying off the dragon. They began to starve.

PLACE THE EVENTS IN THE CORRECT SEQUENCE BY USING THE NUMBERS 1-6:

________ Nate's father tells him to feed the dragon a sheep or a cow.

________ The first mayor made a deal with the Dragon.

_________ The villagers would put out food for the Dragon.

_________ Nate became Mayor of the village.

_________ The villagers began to strave because the Dragon was eating too much their food.

_________ Nate went to Dragon's Cave with his father for the first time.

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