Definition: In this task, you will use your knowledge about language (and common sense) to determine what element the marked number refers to. The numbers are marked with two underlines around them, like: _ number _. Your answer should be chosen from the given text, and should not contain other words.
Input: Hank Bracket:  You know , my partner 's an old hand at these necktie parties .
Miss Baker: Oh ?
Hank Bracket: No , really . The first _ one _ I attended , he was the guest of honor . That 's where I found him . I just plucked him out of a cottonwood tree ... and he was n't very ripe either .
Johnny Reach: I 'd be swingin ' there yet if old Hank had n't happened by ... and spoke up from the other end of a double - stacked blowgun .

parties