described in your own words how the old man was reading?
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A) tge old man was around tge age of 76 . He wore grey dusty clothes and a steel rimmed spectacles .he looked very frail and week. He had walked a long distance and was too tired to walk.
B) carts , trucks , men and women and children were crossing the pontoon bridge . The mule- drwan carts wobbled up the steep bank from the bridge with soldiers helping push against the spokes of wheel. The trucks ground up and away heading out of it all and the peasants plodded along in ankle deep dust.
C)the narrator's duty was to explore the bridgehead to see where the enemy had approached and also to help people cross the bridge.
D)there could be exchange of arterially in San Carlos at any moment as it was in a state of war . All the residents were asked to escape the war zone . So , old man had to leave his house .
He was very unwilling to leave his house and his animals . Hence , he was the last one to leave .
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