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Question
When did the children shy away from the chair?
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Solution
The children shied away from the chair as it was used to prop up a dead body in their village.
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neighbour Makalu, unexplored and
unclimbed. Far away across the clouds,
the great bulk of Kanchenjunga loomed
on the horizon. To the west, we could
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