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Childhood memories

I was told my father was killed in the war. Whenever I questioned my mother about his death, she didn’t A22 _______ any more than that he had been killed fighting on the Western Front only days before the peace treaty with Germany was signed. Grandma said my dad had been a brave man, and once when we were A23 _______ in the house she showed me his medals. My grandpa rarely A24 _______ an opinion on anything, but then he was hard of hearing so he might not have heard the question in the first place.

The only man I can A25 _______ was my uncle Stan who used to sit at the top of the table at breakfast time. When he left in the morning, I A26 _______ to follow him to the city docks where he worked. Every day I spent at the dockyard was an adventure. Cargo ships came from distant lands and unloaded their wares: rice, sugar, bananas and many other things I’d never heard of. Once the holds had been emptied, the dockers would load them with salt, tin, A27 _______ coal (my least favourite because it was an obvious clue to what I’ve been doing all day and annoyed my mother), before they set off again. I always wanted to help my uncle Stan unload A28 _______ ship had docked that morning but he just laughed, saying “All in good time, my lad.” It couldn’t be soon enough for me.