Answer the following questions—
(i) Who is the speaker in the poem?
(ii) Is she/he afraid or curious, or both?
(iii) What is she/he planning to do soon?
(iv) 'But not just yet .............' suggests doubt, fear, hesitation, laziness or something else.
Choose the word which seems right to you. Tell others why you chose it.
Is there a room in your house or a house in your neighbourhood/ locality where you would rather not go alone, and never at night. If there is such a place and a story to go with it, let others hear all about it.
Make the right item.
(i) The old farmer and his wife loved the dog.
(a) because it helped them in their day-to-day work.
(b) as if it was their own baby.
(c) as they were kind to all living beings.
(ii) When the old couple became rich, they.
(a) gave the dog better food.
(b) invited their greedy neighbours to a feast.
(c) lived comfortably and were generous forwards their poor neighbours.
(iii) The greedy couple borrowed the mill and the mortar to make—
(a) rice pastry and bean sauce.
(b) magic ash to win rewards.
(c) a pile of gold.