Once upon a time, there ________ (1) (live) three old monks. They ________ (2) (be) poor and…

Once upon a time, there ________ (1) (live) three old monks. They ________ (2) (be) poor and without any worldly goods. They would travel from village to village and, in every village they ________ (3) (stop), they would sit in the center of the marketplace and start laughing. At first, everyone just ________ (4) (pass) by without giving them any attention. But slowly, a small crowd formed that would linger around every day and laugh with them. The laughter was so addictive that eventually, the whole marketplace had tears running down their cheeks. This was when the monks would finally get up and ________ (5) (move) on to the next village. Their fame ________ (6) (grow) with time. Nobody ever ________ (7) (preach) the way they did with laughter and nothing else. They never laughed at anything in particular, but it was as if they ________ (8) (understand) a cosmic joke. Just ________ (9) (imagine)! Three monks ________ (10) (spread) joy and laughter without saying a single word.