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Question
Answer the following questions.
The old farmer is a kind person. What evidence of his kindness do you find in the first two paragraphs
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Solution
In the first paragraph, it is written that the old farmer treated the dog like his own child. He will feed the dog small pieces of fish with their own chopsticks and offer boiled rice to him as much as he wanted. The second paragraph says that to provide food to the birds, the old farmer will often turn up the surface of the ground.
Both these instances proved that the old man was a kind person.
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