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Daedalus was guilty of a deed which angered the king very greatly; and

had not Minos wished him to build other buildings for him, he would

have put him to death and no doubt have served him right.

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"Hitherto," said the king, "I have honored you for your skill and rewarded

you for your labor. But now you shall be my slave and shall serve me

without hire and without any word of praise."

Then he gave orders to the guards at the city gates that they should not

let Daedalus pass out at any time, and he set soldiers to watch the ships

that were in port so that he could not escape by sea. But although the

wonderful artisan was thus held as a prisoner, he did not build any more

buildings for King Minos; he spent his time in planning how he might

regain his freedom.

"All my inventions," he said to his son Icarus, "have hitherto been made

to please other people; now I will invent something to please myself."

So, all through the day he pretended to be planning some great work for

the king, but every night he locked himself up in his chamber and

wrought secretly by candle light. By and by he had made for himself a

pair of strong wings, and for Icarus another pair of smaller ones; and

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then, one midnight, when everybody was asleep, the two went out to see

if they could fly. They fastened the wings to their shoulders with wax,

and then sprang up into the air. They could not fly very far at first, but

they did so well that they felt sure of doing much better in time.

The next night Daedalus made some changes in the wings. He put on an

extra strap or two; he took out a feather from one wing, and put a new

feather into another; and then he and Icarus went out in the moonlight

to try them again. They did finely this time. They flew up to the top of the

king's palace, and then they sailed away over the walls of the city and

alighted on the top of a hill. But they were not ready to undertake a long

journey yet; and so, just before daybreak, they flew back home. Every fair

night after that they practiced with their wings, and at the end of a

month they felt as safe in the air as on the ground, and could skim over

the hilltops like birds.

Early one morning; before King Minos had risen from his bed, they

fastened on their wings, sprang into the air, and flew out of the city.

Once fairly away from the island, they turned towards the west, for

Daedalus had heard of an island named Sicily, which lay hundreds of

miles away, and he had made up his mind to seek a new home there.

All went well for a time, and the two bold flyers sped swiftly over the sea,

skimming along only a little above the waves, and helped on their way by

the brisk east wind. Towards noon the sun shone very warm, and

Daedalus called out to the boy who was a little behind and told him to

keep his wings cool and not fly too high. But the boy was proud of his

skill in flying, and as he looked up at the sun he thought how nice it

would be to soar like it high above the clouds in the blue depths of the

sky.

"At any rate," said he to himself, "I will go up a little higher. Perhaps I

can see the horses which draw the sun car, and perhaps I shall catch

sight of their driver, the mighty sun master himself."

So he flew up higher and higher, but his father who was in front did not

see him. Pretty soon, however, the heat of the sun began to melt the wax

with which the boy's wings were fastened. He felt himself sinking through

the air; the wings had become loosened from his shoulders. He screamed

to his father, but it was too late. Daedalus turned just in time to see

Icarus fall headlong into the waves. The water was very deep there, and

the skill of the wonderful artisan could not save his child. He could only

look with sorrowing eyes at the unpitying sea, and fly on alone to distant

Sicily. There, men say, he lived for many years, but he never did any

great work, nor built anything half so marvelous as the Labyrinth of

Crete. And the sea in which poor Icarus was drowned was called forever

afterward by his name, the Icarian Sea.

Questions

1. What does wrought mean here: "but every night he locked himself up

in his chamber and wrought secretly by candle light"?

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2. Why did Daedalus make wings for himself and his son?

3. Where were Daedalus and Icarus flying to?

4 . Why did Icarus fall into the sea?

Write antonyms

1.Guilty

2.Escape

3. Finely

Write synonyms

1. Praise

2. Journey

3. Alighted

Make sentences with the following words:

1. Secretly

2. Marvelous

3. Freedom

4. Fastened

can anybody solve this this comprehension

Answers

Answered by WorstAngeI

I can only give the answers of antonyms , synonyms , make sentence.

innocent

captivity

delicately

approval

approvalexcursion

approvalexcursionhound

3. (I) my brother kept his money secretly.

(ii) Heaven is a perfectly marvelous place.

(iii) india got freedom from britishers in 1948.

(iv) These blocks were fastened to a diaphragm of wood.

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Answered by mishrarishiraj219

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