Question

Make a report on how you plant a tree on this diwali

Answer 1

Stanza 6

And being faint with fasting,

For the day was almost done,

He asked her, from her store of cakes,

To give him a single one.

faint: to be weak, famished

As Saint Peter had not eaten anything the entire day, he was very hungry and was feeling weak. So, he went to this woman who was baking cakes and he asked for one cake out of the many cakes that she had baked.

 

Stanza 7

So she made a very little cake,

But as it baking lay,

She looked at it, and thought it seemed

Too large to give away.

The woman was selfish. She did not give cake from her store. Instead, she started making a very small cake for Saint Peter. She did not want to share her things. But, when she put the cake for baking, she looked at it and thought that this cake was too big to be given to someone.

 

Stanza 8

Therefore she kneaded another,

And still a smaller one;

But it looked, when she turned it over,

As large as the first had done.

kneaded – to make dough from flour.

The little miser woman thought that the cake was too big to be given away. So, she started making another smaller cake. When she looked at that cake, she again felt that it was as big as the previous one.  Again, she was not ready to give this smaller cake to Saint Peter.

 



Stanza 9

Then she took a tiny scrap of dough,

And rolled and rolled it flat;

And baked it thin as a wafer —

But she couldn’t part with that.

scrap: small amount

The third time, she took a very small amount of dough and rolled it. The poet says that she rolled and rolled to lay emphasis on the fact that she rolled the dough and made it very