Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow-
In the days of King Louis, there lived a poor juggler by the name of Barnabas, a native of Compiegne, who
wandered from city to city performing tricks of prowess.
During the fair would lay down in the public, square a wom and aged carpet. and after having attracted a
group of children and idlers by certain amusing remarks which he had learned from an old juggler, and
which he invariably repeated in the same fashion without altering a word, he would assume the strangest
postures, and balance a pewter plate on the tin of his nose. At first the crowd regarded him with
indifference, but when, with his hands and head on the ground he threw into the air and caught with his feet
six copper balls that glittered in the sunlight, or when, throwing himself back until his neck touched his
heels, he assumed the form of a perfect wheel and in that position, Juggled with twelve knives, he elicited a
murmur of admiration from his audience, and small coins rained on his carpet.
Still, Barnabas like most of those who existed by their accomplishments, had a hard time making a living
Earning his bread by the sweat of his brow, he bor rather more than his share of those miseries we all are
heir to, through the fault of our father Adam.
Besides, he was unable to work as much as he would have liked, for, in order to exhibit his wonderful
talents, he required ---- like the trees -- the warmth of the sun and the heat of the day. In winter time he was
no more than a tree stripped of its leaves, in fact, half-dead. The frozen earth was too hard for the juggler
He suffered in silence.
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Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow-
In the days of King Louis, there lived a poor juggler by the name of Barnabas, a native of Compiegne, who
wandered from city to city performing tricks of prowess.
During the fair would lay down in the public, square a wom and aged carpet. and after having attracted a
group of children and idlers by certain amusing remarks which he had learned from an old juggler, and
which he invariably repeated in the same fashion without altering a word, he would assume the strangest
postures, and balance a pewter plate on the tin of his nose. At first the crowd regarded him with
indifference, but when, with his hands and head on the ground he threw into the air and caught with his feet
six copper balls that glittered in the sunlight, or when, throwing himself back until his neck touched his
heels, he assumed the form of a perfect wheel and in that position, Juggled with twelve knives, he elicited a
murmur of admiration from his audience, and small coins rained on his carpet.
Still, Barnabas like most of those who existed by their accomplishments, had a hard time making a living
Earning his bread by the sweat of his brow, he bor rather more than his share of those miseries we all are
heir to, through the fault of our father Adam.
Besides, he was unable to work as much as he would have liked, for, in order to exhibit his wonderful
talents, he required ---- like the trees -- the warmth of the sun and the heat of the day. In winter time he was
no more than a tree stripped of its leaves, in fact, half-dead. The frozen earth was too hard for the juggler
He suffered in silence.