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Kevin was eagerly waiting for his holidays. His mother kept on hinting, there would

be a big surprise for him during holidays.

Kevin took out his scrapbook. The exams were just over and summer vacation had
just started. Now, he was free like a bird. Free to draw, paint, play cricket and watch

television…anything he wanted to do. Suddenly, the doorbell rang startling him.

It was his pain of a cousin, Max. “Hiii!” screamed Max as he jumped on to Kevin’s
bed breaking his crayons in the process. “I have come to stay here for the holidays”.

Kevin never expected his mother’s surprise to be this bad. If this was the starting
of his vacation, then the next weeks would be his worst experience.

The next few days were horrible for eagerly : having or showing keen interest

Kevin. startling : very surprising
horrible : causing or likely to cause horror
After breakfast, Kevin decided to make a
painting. Luckily, Max was not around. Kevin spread out all his art supplies and started

painting a beautiful scenery. When he was doing the finishing touches, Max entered
the room with a Pepsi bottle. He slipped on some water, spilling Pepsi all over the
painting, totally ruining it.

The next day was even worse
Do you like to go to school
for him.
just a er holidays?
Everything was peaceful till the
evening. It all started when Max

put the dirty clothes in the washing
machine. After sometime Kevin
heard some weird sounds from the

washing machine. He went to
investigate and later found that

Max had put his best pair of shoes
into the machine along with the
clothes.

One day, Kevin was going

ruining : destroying through the newspaper when
weird : abnormal, unusual some interesting news caught his
investigate : to find the facts about a situation attention. He read it aloud “The
philatelist : a person who loves stamps and collects them
world famous philatelist , Dick

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