"He lifted his head from his drinking as cattle do, and looked at me vaguely, as drinking cattle do, and flickered his two forked tongue from his lips, and mused a moment.
(a) Whom does 'he' refer to?
(b) What is 'he' doing in the speakers garden?
(c) With whom does the speaker compare 'he'?
(d) What does the speaker mean by the phrase 'mused a moment' ?
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Answers
(a) Whom does 'he' refer to?
'He' here refers to the snake.
(b) What is 'he' doing in the speakers garden?
"he' has come to drink water in the speaker's garden as it is very hot that particular day.
(c) With whom does the speaker compare 'he'?
The speaker compares the snake to 'drinking cattle'.
(d) What does the speaker mean by the phrase 'mused a moment' ?
'Mused a moment' means 'thought or pondered over something a little'. It means the snake appeared to be thinking something.
According to me this is a very interesting question.In this question,
the author wants to express his encounter with a snaķe.The various answers as per the questions are as under:-
"He lifted his head from his drinking as cattle do, and looked at me vaguely, as drinking cattle do, and flickered his two forked tongue from his lips, and mused a moment.
(a) Whom does 'he' refer to?
(b) What is 'he' doing in the speakers garden?
(c) With whom does the speaker compare 'he'?
(d) What does the speaker mean by the phrase 'mused a moment' ?
(a) Whom does 'he' refer to?
'He' here refers to the snake.
(b) What is 'he' doing in the speakers garden?
"he' has come to drink water in the speaker's garden as it is very hot that particular day.
(c) With whom does the speaker compare 'he'?
The speaker compares the snake to 'drinking cattle'.
(d) What does the speaker mean by the phrase 'mused a moment' ?
'Mused a moment' means ' that the snake has stopped and thinking something.
I hope the answer has solved all the queries.