question_answer 6)

You must be familiar with the following nursery rhymes. (i) ‘Baa Baa! Baa Baa! Black sheep, have you any wool.’ (ii) ‘Mary had a little lamb, whose fleece was white as snow.’ Answer the following: (a) Which parts of the black sheep have wool? (b) What is meant by the white fleece of the lamb?

Answer:

(a) The black sheep in the poem seems to have wool on almost all the parts as it in the poem, it offers wool enough to fill three bags full. (b) Here, the white fleece of the lamb refers to pure white coloured hairy skin of the lamb.