EXERCISE 2
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NARRATIVE AND DESCRIPTIVE
According to a Greek legend, men were very happy
the beginning. Sorrow came to
them later in this way
A man had a wife named Pandora. There was no other woman on earth at that time. She
had a box given her by Jupiter, king of the gods. Within it were shut up all the good fairies
who make men happy. Pandora did not know this, but she was asked never to look into the
bex. One day her curiosity got the better of her, and she lifted the lid, when all the fairies came
out and flew away. Only the sweet fairy of Hope was left when Pandora closed the box, but
all the others were lost to mankind for ever.
2. Once upon a time a nobleman built a grand house. On the front of the gate he wrote
the words, "This house is to be given to the first man who can prove that he is contented" One
day a stranger knocked at the gate and desired to speak to the nobleman. "I am come," said
he, "to take possession of his house because I can prove that I am contented." The nobleman
said in reply "But there is certainly no trace of that quality in you. If you are contented, you
would not wish to get possession of my house." Saying this, he turned the man out.
3. One day Maharshi Devendranath Tagore came to a bare piece of land in course of his
travels. Only two big trees grew upon it. He liked the place very much because it was so large and
so far away from a city He felt that it would be a very good place in which one could think about
God. It is said that he sat down in the shade of one of the trees and let his thoughts go to God
and good works. He at once made up his mind to buy the land and build an ashram there. He
bought it and called the house Santinidetan. He planted trees and flower gardens and fruit sardens.
4 A man in the east where they do not require as much clothing as in colder climate, guve
up all worldly concerns and retired to a wood. There he built a hut and lived in it. His only
clothing was a piece of cloth which he put on round his waist. But as ill luck would have it,
rats were plentiful in the wood so he had to keep a cat. The est required milk, so a cow had
to be kept. The cow required tending a cowboy was employed. The cowboy required a
house to live in so a house was built for him. To look after the house, a maid had to be
engaged. To provide company for the maid, a few more houses had to be built and people were
invited to live therein. In this way a little township sprang up
8. Rip Van Winkle was a simple but very laxy fellow. When his wife fook him to task for
this, he used to walk out with his gun and his dog for company. One day he met a group of
strang-looking follows in a place. He drank with them and soon fell flust asleep. When he woke
up, there was no sign of the strange people ner of the dog. Suddenly he felt something strange
on his face. To his surprise, he found that he had a long white beard. He found his gun lying
on the grass, rusty and useless. His clothes were all rags and his legs were so cold and still
that he could hardly walk
* Nowadays people keep their most precious poressions in steel safe or leave them for
safety in steny rooms or in their banks. In the old days, before banks and stony rooms came
into existence, people who wanted to keep safe anything they treasured, dug up the ground
and buried the staff. When they needed it again, they dug it out. Man was hero-perhaps
without knowing it only imitating nature. For long before Man emerged, Nature had hidden
underground the most precious of her products. Thousands of years later, when man was
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this is of which class and which chapter
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good story. I think it is a greek legend.
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