You have read the story 'The Brave Potter'. It is a humorous story. The writer of the story created humour
by creating situations where the tiger took the word 'leak' to be 'a more powerful thing' than him and
people mistook the potter to be a brave man.
Collect a humorous story. Analyse how the writer created humour in it
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THE STORY OF THE BRAVE POTTER
It was dark . thick black clouds covered the evening sky. the thunder roared and the strong wind shook the branches and leaves of the trees in the forest, pit… pat… pit, drops of rain fell. then the lightning flashed and split the black sky with its blinding light, soon it was raining heavily.
An old tiger ran through the rain looking for shelter. he was wet and cold and his cave was far away. while hurrying to his shelter he saw an old hunt. with a sigh of relief, the tiger crawled under the thatched roof and lay down by the door. except for the sound of the inside, all followed by the voice of a woman.
oh, how terrible this leak is she complained how terrible I would rather meet a tiger in the forest than have this leak in my house!
A leak? the tiger though. What is a leak? It must be very dangerous and strong or the women would not be more frightened of the leak than of me. Am I not rightly called the king of the forest? Are n’t they all afraid of me? I wonder what a leak looks like…?
Soon afterward the tired tiger fell to sleep. He was suddenly awakened by an angry voice shouting in his ear. He felt heavy blows fall upon his head and shoulders.
You horrible beast! A voice screamed angrily how dare you to run away? How dare you make me walk about in the middle of the night trying to find you! Be careful one of this day I’ll kill you! Now, go home!’