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प्रश्न
Based on your reading of the above story, answer the following questions:
- How did the Bedouin and his wife extend their hospitality to the weary traveller?
- Why didn’t she have any meat left to serve her guest?
- Why was her son crying out aloud?
- How did she cover up her mistake?
- Why did the traveller flee from the tent?
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उत्तर
- They gave him shelter for the night. The Bedouin killed a chicken and gave it to his wife to cook it for the guest.
- She ate all the meat piece by piece.
- Her son was crying out aloud because he wanted some more chicken.
- She covered up her mistake by telling the traveller that whenever a guest arrived at their tent, her husband cut off his ears, roasted them and gave them to his son to eat.
- The traveller fled from the tent out of fear that his ears would be cut off.
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