Read the Narrative below and then answer the questions that follow:Once upon a time, all animals in the jungle were of the same plain colour. But when they were invited by King Lion for his son’s wedding, they decided to decorate themselves for the occasion. The tortoise was given the task of making the dye to be used. Though he was slow, he was the most intelligent. The big day was fast approaching, but tortoise had only managed to make one big pot of black dye. He called a meeting and they all decided to use the available dye to make various patterns of their skin. The leopard was allocated the job of painting the rest of animals. The zebra was the first on the queue followed by the giraffe, then the donkey and all other animals were to follow. The giraffe and the zebra were painted and they looked very beautiful and elegant. The donkey’s turn came but he was undecided on the pattern to choose. The leopard decided to paint like a zebra and got down to work. He made a long line along the donkey’s spine from head towards the tail. On reaching the tail, the donkey started giggling. The leopard continued and the donkey jumped and threw his hind legs saying the brush was tickling and he could not contain himself any longer. He had thrown his hind legs so hard that he hit the pot containing the dye. The dye spattered all over the animals on the queue. The cheetah got speckled all over his body, the leopard got spotted and the crow, who happened to be passing by with an urgent letter for the king hanging on his neck was splashed by the dye which covered his whole body apart from the neck where the letter was. On seeing this, hyena started laughing but got a large splotch on his mouth. All the animals rushed to the stream to try and wash out the dye but it had already dried and had become permanent. Nobody could get off the spots, streaks, speckles and splotches. And that is how the donkey was responsible for the various patterns we see on animals’ bodies today. Questions
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Victor
8/10/2021 10:13:58
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