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My heart suddenly stopped to throb and I asked with a choking voice, “What then?”
Grannie said, “Then . . .”

But, what is the use of going on any further with the story? It would only lead on to what
was more and more impossible. The boy of seven did not know that how impossible it was

to become alive again. After death, no grandson of a grandmother could tell us all about it.
But, my faith never admits defeat and it would snatch away the life from death itself to
turn him back. It would be outrageous for him to think that such a story of one teacher-less

evening could so suddenly come to a stop. Therefore, the grandmother had to call back her
story from the ever-shut chamber of the great end, but she does it so simply. It was merely
by floating the dead body on a banana stem on the river and having some mantras read by
a magician. slumber : be asleep

But, in that rainy night and in the dim light of a lamp, death loses all its horror in the
mind of the boy and seems nothing more than a deep slumber of a single night. When the

story ends, the tired eyelids are weighed down with sleep.

Next morning, I found my mother shaking me to get up for school………and the prince
became alive …..not to meet the beautiful princess but to………….take up the bag and go to
school to learn the realities of life.

– Rabindranath Tagore

Work Out
Work Out
Work Out
Comprehension
Comprehension
Comprehension

A. Tick ( ) the correct option.3
1. Who declared the arrival of tutor?

a) Servant b) Mother c) Grandmother
2. Who tells him a story?

a) Tutor b) Father c) Grandmother

3. Who went to forest for tapasaya?
a) Queen b) King c) Sage

4. Who is the writer of the story?

a) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee b) Premchand
c) Rabindranath Tagore

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