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Describe the tone in which the narrator’s father dismissed his wife’s warnings every single time.
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Solution
When his wife warned him the first time, father was really astonished. He thought how a good climber like him could fall. The Second time his wife warned him, he laughed at her finding her warning to be a funny joke.
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