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Based on your understanding of the poem, read the following line and answer the question given below.
At last by starvation and famine made bold,
All dripping with wet, and all trembling with cold,
Why did the cricket drip and tremble?
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Solution
The cricket dripped wet and trembled with cold because it was winter.
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