Why the Princess lice
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Shangover a great country full with eyes like two bits of night sky
os and vs His Tand each with a star dissolved in the blue
Those svomust have known they came
esec zs born there, but she up in thar direction. The ceiling of her
nursery was blue with stars in it, like
the sky. Bur I doubt if ever she saw the
There was and a little princes whose
very fast. Her face was fair and
che palace wasbak upon one
The princas ahose from there, so often were
through them, and some shining with going to some other country, they had
all colours of the rainbow when a light all taken refuge in the subterranean
was taken in. There would not have caverns, and they came out only at night
been much known about them, had It was only in the least frequented and
there not been mines there, which had most difficult parts of the mountains
been dug to get at the ore of which the
that they were said to gather.
mountains were full. In the course of
In the process of time they had got
digging, the miners came upon many a king and a government of their own,
of these natural caverns.
whose chief business was to devise
Now in these subterranean caverns lived trouble for their neighbours. It will now
a strange race of beings, called by some
be pretty evident why the little princess
gnomes, by some goblins. There was a
had never seen the sky at night. They
legend current in the country that at
were much too afraid of the goblins to
one time they lived above ground, and
let her out of the house then, even in
were very like other people. But for
company with ever so many attendants
some reason, they had all disappeared
GEORGE MACDONALD
from the face of the country. Instead of
Adapted from The Princess and the Goblin
A. Comprehension
1. Why was Princess Irene sent away from her home to be brought up by others?
price
they turned
2. How old was she when the story begins?
a 10
b. 9
c 12
3. Why is it mentioned that she got older fast?
as I
4. Why were the mountains dug and what was found in them?
5. Whar was the legend about the gnomes and goblins living in the caverns?
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Answer:
the sun causes changes in weather wind blow and rainfall
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