Convert the following into Indirect Speech
1. "Cheer up, mother, I'll
go and get work somewhere," said Jack.
The Rajah was deeply grieved, and said to his wife, "What can I do for you?"
3. "Dear bird," she said, stroking his feathers, "have you come to comfort me in
my sorrow?"
4. When the sun got low, the king's son said, "Jack, since we have no money,
where can we lodge this night?"
5. Then aloud he said, "Tell me, boy, is the miller within?"
6. Telemachus replied, "How can I drive away the mother who bore me and
nourished me?"
7. "Call no man happy," was the reply of the philosopher," until he has ended
his life in a fitting manner."
8. He said, "Daughter, take my golden jug, and fetch me some water from the
well."
9. Then said the wolf to the fox, "Now accept defeat or else certainly I will
kill you."
10. "I believe," said he, "that we are in this country among a people whom we
like and who like us."
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Convert the following into Indirect Speech
1. "Cheer up, mother, I'll
go and get work somewhere," said Jack.
The Rajah was deeply grieved, and said to his wife, "What can I do for you?"
3. "Dear bird," she said, stroking his feathers, "have you come to comfort me in
my sorrow?"
4. When the sun got low, the king's son said, "Jack, since we have no money,
where can we lodge this night?"
5. Then aloud he said, "Tell me, boy, is the miller within?"
6. Telemachus replied, "How can I drive away the mother who bore me and
nourished me?"
7. "Call no man happy," was the reply of the philosopher," until he has ended
his life in a fitting manner."
8. He said, "Daughter, take my golden jug, and fetch me some water from the
well."
9. Then said the wolf to the fox, "Now accept defeat or else certainly I will
kill you."
10. "I believe," said he, "that we are in this country among a people whom we
like and who like us."