![]() ![]() Once again she poised carefully on the brink, and jumped down. Immediately on doing so she lay down, presumably to prevent the kid from feeding.Īfter a little while she got to her feet again and allowed the kid to drink for a minute. Fearing that it would do something foolish, the mother went to what looked like a mere crack in the vertical rock face. The kid was now getting more and more agitated. But from the way her head was turned, I believe she was doing so. I was too far away to hear whether the mother was encouraging her young. For below the narrow ledge, was a sheer drop of a thousand feet. As soon as it was left alone, the kid started running backwards and forward, stopping every now and then to peer down at its mother.īut the kid was unable to summon the courage to jump down to the mother. She poised for a moment, then jumped down on to another narrower ledge some twelve to fifteen feet below her. After a minute, the mother freed herself and took a few steps along the ledge. Presently the tahr got to her feet, stretched herself, and the kid immediately began to feed. On a ledge halfway up the cliff, a tahr (a mountain goat) and her kid were lying asleep. I was lying on a ridge scanning with field glasses a rock cliff opposite me for the most sure-footed of all Himalayan goats. (d) to describe the creatures living in the tree. (c) to describe the writer’s friendship with the squirrel. (b) to describe what the squirrel liked to eat. The main purpose of the last paragraph was _. (c) the squirrel started taking food from my hands. Which of the following happened first in the story? ![]() (d) there were many creatures on the tree. (b) it had branches with thick green leaves. The writer could hide behind the trees because _. (b) his grandfather was too old to Climb it. (b) his grandfather was too old to climb it. (a) his grandfather had gifted it to him. The writer says that the tree belonged to him because Read the statements given below and tick the correct option to complete each statement. (Source: An extract from The Banyan Tree, by Ruskin Bond) Before long, he was delving into my pockets and helping himself to whatever he could find. But when he found that I did not arm myself with a catapult, he became friendly, and when I started bringing him pieces of cake and biscuit he grew quite bold and was soon taking food from my hand. At first, he seemed to resent my invasion of his privacy. I could hide myself in its branches, behind thick green leaves, and spy on the world below. The tree was older than the house, older than grandfather, as old as Dehra Dun itself. Among them were squirrels and snails and butterflies. ![]() Its spreading branches, which hung to the ground and took root again, forming a number of twisting passages, gave me endless pleasure. Though the house and grounds belonged to my grandparents, the magnificent old banyan tree was mine – chiefly because Grandfather, at sixty-five, could no longer climb it. ![]() Read the following passages and answer the questions that follow.
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