Once there was a garden in front of a church gate . Every day a number of children p__ by the garden to go to school , so the flowers were picked from time to time .
That spring , the flowers of the garden were in full bloom ( 开花 ) . One early morning , the pastor ( 牧师  ) stood in the garden to w_____ for the children going to school . Soon , some of them came along . A little boy asked the pastor , “ Can I p__  a flower ?”
“ Which one do you want ?” the pastor asked k____  . The boy chose a tulip .
The pastor said ,“Very good . It b_____ to you now .However ,if you leave the flower here ,it can still bloom for several days ; if you pick it now , you can only play for a while . You are a s_____ kid , so you choose by yourself .
The little boy t_____ for a while and said , “ Then I leave it here . I will come back to see it after school is over .”
On that day , more than 29 children a____ to leave the flowers in the garden . And they all came back to see their favorite flowers after school . However , n___ of them picked the flowers from then on .
That spring , the pastor left the whole garden to the people , but he had never  l___ one .

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