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UNIT 5 SUPPLEMENTORY READER THE UNLUCKY FACE NOTE : The story is adapted from Stories of Birbal. GIST OF THE STORY In Delhi , there lived a merchant named Hirachand. It was said that if anybody saw his face would go without food for a day. So the great king Akbar wanted to test this. Next day, Hirachand was brought before Akbar, when Akbar was about to take his food. But soon the King was summoned to meet his wife as she was feeling ill. When he returned to take his food, the food went cold and it took more time to cook hot food. And now the King got ill too and the Doctor said him not to have anything for the whole day as he was sick. Akbar thinks this as the fate of Hirachand’s face and orders him to be executed. Birbal hears this and ells hirachand something. Hirachand meets Akbar, and tells Akbar’s fate is more worse than his. As hirachand is going to be executed after seeing Akbar’s face. Now Akbar realizes his mistake and give gifts to hirachand ...

UNIT 5 POEM GRANNY GRANNY PLEASE COMB MY HAIR By GRACE NICHOLS Granny Granny Please comb my hair You always take your time You always take such care  You take me sit on a cushion Between your knees You rub a little coconut oli Parting my hair as gentle as a breeze  Mummy mummy She’s always in a hurry-hurry She pulls my hair Sometimes she tugs  But granny You have all the time in the world And when you’ve finished You always turn my head and say “Now who’s a nice girl?"  SUMMARY OF THE POEM My granny is old But. she is a pure gold She combs my hair With lot of care My mother in hurry She combs my hair hardly Sometimes she tugs my hair My granny takes her own time To comb my hair And when she finished She would turn her face And ask now who’s a nice girl

UNIT 5 PROSE THOSE THREE BEARS NOTE : ·       This story is from the excerpt from Ruskin Bond’s collection of short stories named “Animal stories”. ·       Ruskin Bond , a well-known writer of fiction and non-fiction, was a resident of Mussoorie. GIST OF THE STORY: ·       The Himalayan villages lie in valleys, where there are small streams and farm lands. ·       The houses have slopped roofs and mostly during the roofs are covered with Pumpkins, left to ripen in the sun. ·       Our author has stayed at his friend’s house, at that night he heard some rumbling noise over the roof. ·       His friend said it was the bears which was after the pumpkins. ·       The bears come downhill during the winter in search of food. ·       The village folks had advised the auth...

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