It was snowing hard. Gus Kiebel, a county wildlife officer, was driving home from work when he 1 the pair in the flash of his headlights. The father-to-be scanned the roadside so that his struggling 2 might rest safely for the night. He looked over at her 3 . They needed a warm 4 from the bitter wind.
Gus parked his truck and 5 the animals. He stretched out his hands to the beagles (比格犬), which made no effort to 6 . Then he dialed the number from the dogs' tags (标牌). A man answered and immediately grew 7 when Gus told him why he was calling. "I gave those dogs away," the man said. "They're not mine anymore." Then he hung up.
Obviously, these beagles were 8 . Then he brought the tired beagles home. As a boy, owning beagles had been his 9 , but keeping this pair was out of the question now—the Kiebels already had a family dog. So he 10 the League for Animal Welfare to drop them off—on one 11 . "I'm not signing the dogs over to you if you're going to 12 them," he said. The shelter workers promised him they'd keep the couple together.
In the following days, Gus phoned the shelter 13 to check up on them. Soon, the beagles were adopted as a pair, to a loving family. It's a simple story, but it 14 the best of our nature. And when kindness weighs more than 15 , it becomes the greatest miracle of all.
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