1 GHS Sunet, Ludhiana Presented By: Parmjit Kaur (SST Mistress) Subject – English Class – 9 th

 It contain the incidents how a person became friend of animals and Birds.  How a person became nature friend  A great message to humanity 2

I Became A Great Friend of Animals & Birds I Became A Great Friend of Animals & Birds

Once writer caught some grouse and put in the basket and move toward forester’s house. The grouse got injured while they were being chased. As he neared forester’s house he saw a box on the roof of forester’s house and a starling was sitting on it. Suddenly a hawk pounced on a starling and flew away. 4

This sight filled the writer with deep pity. He felt that he was not better than a hawk. He took that grouse to his home and nursed its wounds and after a week when it start running writer left it in its nest. 5

One hot sunny day, the writer was fishing at a lake. A family of ducks with their young ones came there. Suddenly a kite pounced on the ducklings. At once a writer pulled out his fishing line from the water and swung it round. The hook caught the kite’s wing, but all in vain. The powerful bird flew up so fast. 6

One another day he saw an injured hedgehog. It got injured in a fight with snake. He picked up the hedgehog and cleaned its wounds and dressed them. Then he gave it some birch juice and put it down under the shade. Thus a writer did a good deed once again. 7

The previous incident make both, writer and hedgehog, good friends. It followed writer where ever he went. Their special enjoyment was strolling in the woods. The hedgehog would go running ahead showing way to writer and took him to loveliest spots in the woods. 8

One another day the writer was following the hedgehog. Suddenly the hedgehog warned him about some forthcoming event. Probably it was earthquake. The writer started following hedgehog. The trees were shaking and leaves were falling. Suddenly he saw a bear cub hanging down dangerously from a cracked pine. The writer saved that cub’s life.

The writer noted an important fact about life, doing a good thing automatically leads to another good one. One has to do is to keep one’s eyes open. Love Nature, it will pay back double to you. It is today’s need when we are doing lot of things against nature, we must have some feelings of doing good to those who are making our surroundings beautiful and alive. 10

11 TEXTUAL QUESTIONS ANWSERS

 What is the name of writer?  how a person became friend of animals and Birds?  How writer saved cub’s life from bear?  What do you learn from this story? 12

13 Q. 1 Where was the writer going ? Ans. He was going towards the Volga. Q. 2 Why was the writer happy with his catch ? Ans. He was happy because he had caught the grouse without using his gun. Q. 3 Why did the writer free the grouse and how did he help them? Ans. He realized how cruel it was to kill birds. So he freed the grouse. He tool the injured grouse home. There he and his wife nursed their wounds. When they were all right, he left them in the woods. He left them in the same trees from where he had caught them. Q. 4 Why did the writer go to the lake? What happened there? Ans. He went there to fish. A duck came swimming with its ducklings. Suddenly, a hawk pounced on the duckling. The writer at once swung his fishing line. The hook caught the hawk’s wing. The hawk was very powerful. He flew away with the line. But the ducklings were saved.

14 Q. 5 How did the writer help the ducklings? Ans. The writer swung his fishing line. The hook The hook caught the hawk’s wing. The hawk was very powerful. He flew away with the line. But the ducklings were saved. Q. 6 how did the writer save the hedgehog ? Ans. The writer cleaned the wounds on the hedgehog’s stomach. Then he took a sharp pine and silky blade of grass. With these he sewed up the stomach of the hedgehog. He also gave him birch juice to drink. Q. 7 How did the writer save the bear cub? Ans. The bear cub was hanging from a cracked tree. It was in great danger. The writer split the tree to its root. The club fell to the ground. It started crying. The writer stroked its ears. After some time the cub stopped crying.

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