BY THE END OF WINTER NIKA HAD………...(1) FROM HER WOUND AND WAS……….....

22. By the end of winter Nika had………...(1) from her wound and was………..(2) to fly again. On the first warm spring

day she and Gray Wing grew restless. They are longing……(3) the freedom of their northern home.

One day familiar….(4) came from the sky. A large wedge of Canada geese was…….(5) directly overhead. They were

returning from their winter home in the south.

Their cries urged Gray Wing and Nika to……..…..(6) their flight to freedom. The two geese hissed in their pen and

beat their splendid…….(7) against the wire. But it was in…….(8) They couldn’t escape.