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Question
Narrate the humorous incidents that happened in the author’s home before and after the arrival of the chair.
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Solution
There was only a three-legged stool in the narrator’s home when the story begins. The woeful thing about the stool was that if one didn’t place one’s weight exactly above the legs, the stool would topple over. Their family friend, a sub-judge paid a visit to their home one day. He was provided with a stool to sit on. Before he was given a caution, he sat on it and fell down with a thud, and rolled over.
This incident made the family members giggle for a long time. After the arrival of the chair, there arose a different scenario. The chair was asked by the villagers whenever there was a death in the village. It was used to prop up the corpse. Whenever the mourners came for the chair, the family members felt very sad which was misinterpreted by the mourners. The family members had feared sitting on the chair after that incident. They persuaded their visitors to sit on it and made fun that they were rehearsing for their death. When they started to sit on the chair again it would be asked for by the mourners. Thus the witty incidents continued.
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