Question

If he didn’t hurry it would soon be dark. And his father would be waiting for the bait.

First of all he had said to his mother that he wouldn’t go to the ebb. The mood had

come on him to be very stubborn. It was a shame that he should have to go to the

ebb, with the other boys playing football. The injustice of it had hit him strongly. His

father had said nothing. But if didn’t go then his father would have had to. And by two

or three in the morning his father would have to be aboard. It must be terribly cold in

the dark out on that sea; out on the sea in the small hours of a sleepy morning, or on

a morning of hard frost, with mist coming off the water like ghosts’ breath.

The loneliness of the bouldered beach suddenly caught him in an odd way. A small

shiver went over his back. The dark undulating water rose from him to a horizon so

far away that it was vague and lost. What a size it was! It could heave up and drown

the whole world. Its waters would go rushing and drowning. He glimpsed the rushing

water as a turbulent whiteness released out of thunderous sluices. “But you can’t,”

he half-smiled, a little fearfully,glancing about him. A short distance away,right on the

sea’s edge, he saw one of the boulders move. His heart came into his throat. Yet half

his mind knew that it could only be some other lonely human being in the ebb. And

presently he saw the back bob up for a moment again.

Yes, it was a man. Seeking among the boulders there like some queer animal! He

looked about him carefully. There was no one else. There was just the two of them in

the ebb. Here they were on this dark beach, with nobody else. A strange air of

remoteness touched him. It was as though they shared this gloomy shore, beyond the

world’s rim, between them. There was a secret importance in it. He stooped and

began filling his bag with mussels, picking big ones in a manly way. The water was

Now merely cool to his burning hands.
QUEATIONS
a) Give the meaning of each of the following words. [1.5]

i) Bait--- ii) ebb------ iii) turbulent----------

b) Answer the following questions briefly:

i) Where does the incident referred to in the passage take place? Why has the

boy come there? [1.5]

ii) What stages do the boy’s feelings go through in the first paragraph? [1]

iii) Why, do you think, is the mist coming off the water, “like the ghosts’

breath”? [1]

iv) What features of the sea impress the boy in the following lines: [2]
“What a size…..thunderous sluices,”

v) What changes do we notice in the boy’s feelings about the other human

being on the beach? [2]

c) In not more than 50 words narrate the boy’s experience

as given in the passage.​

Answer 1

Answer:

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Answer 2

Answer:

give the meaning of the bait