THOSE THREE BEARS
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 author to run downhill if he was being chased by
a bear, as it is hard for a bear to run downhill than uphill.
· The
Himalayan bears likes to eat pumpkins, plums and apricots.
· Once
the author has seen a bear which was little more than a cub and carefully
observed his activities, which was very interesting for the author.
· The
little bear, made himself through the plum tree and when he noticed that the
author was looking at him, he gets disturbed and tries to hide away from him.
· But
the author plays with the bear, by hiding himself and suddenly burst out of
laughter, when the bears thinks he has gone.
· This
makes the bear to fall down from the branch, but he is unhurt and starts running
towards the hill clearing his way.
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