One morning he woke up beside a

One morning he woke up beside a river. Slowly he followed _61_ his eyes and saw it emptying into a shining sea. When he saw a ship on the sea, he closed his eyes. He knew there could be no ship, no sea, in this _62_. A vision, he told himself. He heard a noise behind him, and turned around. A wolf, old and sick, was coming slowly toward him. This was _63_, he thought. The man turned back, but the sea and the ship were still there. He didn't _64_. Had he been walking north, away from the camp, toward the sea? He stood _65_ and started slowly toward the ship, knowing full well the sick wolf was _66_ him. In the afternoon, he found some bones of a man. _67_ the bones was a small sack of gold, like his own. So Bill had carried his gold to the _68_. He would carry Bill's gold to the ship. He would have the last _69_ on Bill. His laughing sounded like the low cry of a(n) _70_. The wolf cried back. The man stopped suddenly and turned away. How could he laugh about Bill's bones and take his gold?


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【正确答案】：following