Question

1.
Read the given extracts and answer the following questions.
Had he and I but met
a)
By some old ancient inn,
We should have sat us down to wet
Right many a nipperkin!
1) Who does 'he' refer to the above lines? What did the narrator have to do?
ii) Why did the narrator wish he had met 'the man he killed by an old inn?
iii) What could have happened if the two men had met at an old, ancient inn?
iv) Find a word from the extract which means the same as 'belonging to the very
distant past​

Answer 1

Answer:

Didn't get your question. Your questions did not match with the extracts. I think.

Answer 2

Answer:

1

i)

Ans: ‘He’ refers to the enemy soldier the narrator killed at the war front. The

narrator, though a soldier, was peace-loving, who was never prepared to shoot a

fellowman but being a soldier, had to shoot and kill his enemy.

ii)  Ans: The narrator, overcome by guilt, wished he had met the-man-he-killed by

an old inn because he would not have shot him and he could have survived.

iii)  Ans: If the two men had met at an old inn, they would have sat by the same table

and drunk many bottles of nipperkin together in great friendliness and they could  be thereafter lifelong friends.

iv) Ans: ancient

( i think this is helpfull my dear podar friend )