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The Blue Bead, Norah Burke
This story is about a young girl named Sibia who one day goes to the cliffs with her mother and other women to collect paper grass. On her return journey she gets left behind. In order to get home Sibia has to cross a river. She was too tired so she stopped to take rest. She sees a Gujar woman getting attacked by a crocodile. Sibia rushes to help the woman and she stabs the crocodile in the eye with a hayfork. Sibia takes the wounded woman back into the village. When she returns to the river to get her hayfork she finds a blue bead lying in water. In the end Sibia doesn’t tell her mother about helping the lady because she is excited about finding the blue bead for her necklace. Extract I “Timber was being floated down … breathing the clean sunny air.” Question (i): What are sleepers? What made the timber float down the river? Answer (i): Sleepers are rectangular pieces of timber which are specifically cut for construction of building and railway tracks. Trees in the forest further...
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