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Question
Tell the story of the poem in three or four sentences with the help of the pictures given below.
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Solution
- The mother ask her son to go to the shop to buy some things.
- The boy went to the shop.
- But he did not buy the things his mother asked.
- So she twisted his ear in anger.
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