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Read the Extract Given Below and Answer the Question that Follow. Describe Muni’S Prosperous Times. - English 2 (Literature in English)

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Unleashing the goats from the drumstick tree, Muni started out, driving them ahead and uttering weird cries from time to time in order to urge them on. Me passed through the village with his head bowed in thought. He did not want to look at anyone or be accosted. A couple of cronies lounging in the temple corridor hailed him, but he ignored their call. They had known him in the days of affluence when he lorded over a flock of fleecy sheep, not the miserable grawky goats that he had today.

Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow.

Describe Muni’s prosperous times.

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उत्तर

In his prosperous days Muni had a flock of 40 sheep and some goats which were healthy.

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