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3. Two days later, at twilight, Peter asked his sisters to come with him to the
bottom of the hill.

a. Why did Peter take his sisters with him?

b. What did Peter ask his sisters to take along with them?
c. What did they find at the bottom of the hill? What did they do with it?

4. ‘Come along to the station,’ said the man holding him.

a. Who was the ‘man’? Whom was he holding?

b. Why did he catch hold of him?

c. Did he take him to the station?

5. ‘What do you mean by spying on me like this?’

a. Who said this and to whom?
b. What was the station master’s response to this? Why?

c. Why did the speaker ask this question? What was his intention?

C. Refl ect and answer.

1. Do you think Peter was stealing the coal? Justify your answer.
2. Why do you think the station master let go of Peter without punishing him?

Vocabulary

Read the following sentences.

I am madly busy.

The children carted the coal up the hill.
Look at the highlighted words.

madly (-ly is added at the end of the word mad to make a new word madly.)

carted (-ed is added at the end of the word cart to make a new word carted.)

The group of letters added at the end of a word to make a new word is called a suffix. By
adding a suffix we get a new word whose meaning is different but related to the original
word.

Look at another example:

You needn’t threat. 
You needn’t threaten. 

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