One evening, a young man at a certain college who was known to be something of a poet read one of his poems to a small group of his friends in a room.The poem was greatly admired.But afterwards, one of them, who was called Crick, said, "I was very interested in Hand's poem, but it was stolen from a book." His words were reported to Hand, who was very angry and required an apology."Well," said Crick, "I don't often take back what I said, but this time I admit   I was mistaken.When I got to my room, I looked in the book which I thought the poem was stolen from, and I saw it was still here!" When Hand required an apology, Crick  _  .
didn't do as Hand asked admitted he was wrong was unwilling to do so showed the poem to Hand