Little stories for children...

READ AND TELL

BOOK ONE

C. S Bandari     J.W Spencer

S. k Ram

English Language Teaching Institute

Allahabad

This book introduces the pupils gradually to simple narrative style, using only more productive and common grammatical structures.

 

              

 1. ONLY ONE LEG

A man killed a crane and gave it to his servant. The servant roasted it and ate one of its legs. Then he put it on a plate on the dinner table. The master came and sat down at the dinner table. He turned the bird upside down and asked, “Where is the other leg?”  The servant replied “A crane has only one leg sir.”

 Next morning the master and the servant went together to the river-bank. A crane was standing there in the water on one leg. The master clapped his hands and the bird lowered its other leg and flew away.

The master turned to his servant and said, “Look at that crane! It has two legs”

The servant replied, “that is true, sir. But you did not clap your hands yesterday and so the crane on the plate did not lower its other leg.

Questions

1.    Who roasted the crane?

2.    Where did he put it?

3.    Has a crane only one leg?

4.    What did the servant say to his master on the river- bank?

Learn these:

1.    The master came and sat down at the dinner table. 2. He turned the bird upside down and asked. 3. The master turned to his servant and said 4. The crane on the plate did not lower its other leg.