Fill in the blank (iii) by selecting the most appropriate word for the blank from the given options.

Directions: In the following passage there are some numbered blanks:

At markets or at county fairs in the old days, the customer had to be on guard against a dishonest trader. A house wife, for example, wanting (i) _____ buy a live piglet might be (ii) ____________ a discount if she bought (iii) _____ packed one, tied up in a small sack (iv) _____ a poke. Anyone who agreed to (v) _______ a pig in a poke was naturally (vi) ________________ a risk. The pig might be ill (vii) ________________ even dead or it might turn (viii) _______ to be not a piglet at all.