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The Magic Shop

By H. G. Wells

I had seen the Magic Shop from afar several times; a shop window of alluring little objects, magic balls, packs of cards that looked all right, but never had I thought of going in until one day, Gip hauled me by my finger right up to the window. ‘If I was rich,’ said Gip, dabbing a finger at the Disappearing Egg, ‘I’d buy myself,’ he said, and laid my hand on the door-handle and we came into the shop.

It was a magic shop. It was a little, narrow shop, not very well lit. There were several crystal spheres, a china hand holding magic cards, a stock of magic fish-bowls. On the floor were magic mirrors; one to draw you out long and thin, and one to make you short and fat; and while we were laughing at these the shop man, came in. There he was, behind the counter a curious, dark man, with one ear larger than the other and a chin like the toe-cap of a boot. ‘How can we help you?’ he said, ‘I want,’ I said, ‘to buy my little boy a few simple tricks, anything amusing?’. ‘Um!’ said the shop man. Then, he drew from his head a glass ball. ‘Something in this way?’ he said, and held it out. ‘That’s good,’ I said, with a laugh. ‘How much will that be?’ I asked. ‘We make no charge for glass balls,’ said the shop man. ‘We get them’ he picked one out of his elbow as he spoke ‘free.’

He produced another from the back of his neck, and laid it on the counter. He turned to Gip with a smile. ‘You are the Right Sort of Boy.’ ‘It’s only the Right Sort of Boy that gets through that doorway,’ said the shop man. He said, addressing to Gip, ‘you would like one of our, “Buy one and astonish your Friends” boxes?’ Gip, after a gallant effort, said ‘Yes.’ ‘It’s in your pocket.’ ‘Paper,’ he said, and took a sheet out of the empty hat with the springs; ‘string,’ and behold his mouth was a string-box, and then he lit a candle and stuck one of his fingers into the flame, and so sealed the parcel. ‘Then there was the Disappearing Egg,’ he remarked, also ‘The Crying Baby’. I handed each parcel to Gip as it was ready, and he clasped them to his chest.



Answer the following questions in one or two sentences:

Write the description of the shop. 1

Imagine yourself as Gip and write what you would buy from ‘The Magic Shop’. Give a reason. 1

Find the antonym of the given word from the passage. 1

repelling

Find the word from the passage which means: 1

to take something or someone somewhere, especially by force

Describe the shop man. 1

Explain the magic trick shown by the shop man. 1

Frame meaningful sentences with the given words: (any two) 2

astonish

curious

remark

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Answer 1

Explanation:

who did take gip to the magic shop and what did he want?