Question

Sidda clutched the ball.

Answer 1

Sidda clutched the ball, closed his eyes for a second and threw the ball up. When the ball came down again, he said, 'Now this has .

Answer 2

1. a) When did Mr. Sivasanker subject Sidda to a scrutiny and what observation did he make? b) What did Sivasanker inquire of Sidda and what did Sidda reply? c) Why did Sivasanker call his wife and what observation did she make? d) “ and that decided it” – What was decided and how? e) On what conditions Sidda was appointed?


a)         Sidda was hanging about the gate when Mr. Sivasanker was standing in the front veranda of his house. Sivasanker was brooding over the servant problem. As Sidda told him that he was looking for a job of a servant, Sivasanker asked him to come inside the gate and subjected him to a scrutiny.

           

To Mr. Sivasanker, Sidda didn’t seem to be a bad sort at any rate and he also looked tidy.


b)         Sivasanker asked Sidda where he had been before, what his master’s name was and why he left the job. Sidda replied that he had worked in a bungalow. It was a doctor’s house near the market. He did not know his master’s name. Sidda had to leave the job because they had left the town.


c)         Sivasanker couldn’t make out by his own if it would be prudent to employ the boy as a servant. So he called his wife.


            To Sivasanker’s wife, Sidda didn’t seem to be any worse than the others they had had before.


d)         Mr. Svasanker and his wife had a little hesitation to decide over the employment of Sidda. At that moment, Leela, their five year old daughter came out. She looked at Sidda, liked him and insisted his parents to keep him in their house. This made her parents resolve to employ Sidda as a servant.


e)         Sidda was given two meals a day and four rupees a month. In return he washed clothes, tended the garden, ran errands, chopped wood and looked after Leela.