A Reading
The Snake and the Mirror
"Has a snake ever coiled itself round any part of your body? A full-blooded cobra? All
of us fell silent. The question came from the homeopath. The topic came up when we were
discussing snakes. We listened attentively as the doctor continued with the tale.
"It was a hot summer night about ten o'clock. I had my meal at the restaurant and returned
to my room. I heard a noise from above as I opened the door. The sound was a familiar one.
One could say that rats and I shared the room. I took out my box of matches and lighted the
kerosene lamp on the table.
The house was not electrified; it was a small rented room. I had just set up medical
practice and my earnings were meagre. I had about sixty rupees in my suitcase. Along with
some shirts and dhotis, I also possessed one solitary black coat which I was then wearing.
I took off my black coat, white shirt and not-so-white vest and hung them up. I opened
the two windows in the room. It was an outer room with one wall facing the open yard. It had
a tiled roof with long supporting gables that rested on the beam over the wall. There was no
ceiling. There was a regular traffic of rats to and from the beam. I made my bed and pulled
it close to the wall. I lay down but I could not sleep. I got up and went out to the veranda for
a little air, but the wind god seemed to have taken time off.
I went back into the room and sat down on the chair. I opened the box beneath the table
and took out a book, The Materia Medica. I opened it at the table on which stood the lamp
and a large mirror, a small comb lay beside the mirror.
Answers
Answer:
kya krna h Isme jo Inna bda likha h naa koi question h
Explanation:
HAS a snake ever coiled itself round any part of your body? A full-blooded cobra?” All of us fell silent. The question came from the homeopath. The topic came up when we were discussing snakes. We listened attentively as the doctor continued with his tale.
It was a hot summer night; about ten o’clock. I had my meal at the restaurant and returned to my room. I heard a noise from above as I opened the door.
The homeopathic doctor is narrating the story. He asks the writer and the group if anyone had ever been wrapped up by a cobra snake. The audience became silent due to the fear of the cobra snake. Then the doctor narrated his story. It was a hot summer night, almost 10 o'clock, he was returning home after having his dinner at the restaurant. As the doctor was opening the door of his room, he heard a noise from above, but he did not react because he was used to such noises.
The sound was a familiar one.
One could say that the rats and I shared the room.
He was used to listen to this kind of noise. It was the noise of rats. There were many rats in his room, so he was used to the noise.
I took out my box of matches and lighted the kerosene lamp on the table.The house was not electrified; it was a small rented room.
There was no light in the doctor’s room, so, he lighted the kerosene lamp with a match box. He had taken a small room on rent.
I had just set up medical practice and my earnings were meagre.I had about sixty rupees in my suitcase.Along with some shirts and dhotis I also possessed one solitary black coat which was then wearing.
meagre: small in quantity.
possessed: had
solitary: single
As he had just started his medical practice, he was earning very less. That is why he was living in such a shabby, dirty condition. He told the writer that he had just sixty rupees in his bag.
Further,he added that he had some shirts and dhotis to wear. He also had a black -coloured coat which he was wearing at the time of the incident.