Read the Lines Given Above and Answer the Question that Follow. Why Did “The Third One” Refuse to Use His Stick of Wood? - English 2 (Literature in English)

Short Note

The next man looking 'cross the way
Saw one not of his church
And Couldn't bring himself to give
The fire his stick of birch.

The third one sat in tattered clothes.
He gave his coat a hitch.
Why should his log be put to use
To warm the idle rich?
The rich man just sat back and thought
of the wealth he had in store
And how to keep what he had earned
From the lazy shiftless poor.

Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow.

Why did “the third one” refuse to use his stick of wood?

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Solution

The third one was a poor man in torn clothes and he did not want to give his stick as he envied the rich man his wealth and did not want to save the idle rich.

Concept: Reading

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