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Let’s read the poem and find out how the poet describes his father.

My father knows the proper way

Do you help your
The nation should be run; father in household Let’s connect

He tells us children every day chores?
life skill interpersonal skills
Just what should now be done.

He knows the way to fix the trusts,

He has a simple plan;

But if the furnace needs repairs,

We have to hire a man.

My father, in a day or two

Could land big thieves in jail;

There’s nothing that he cannot do,

He knows no word like ‘fail’.

‘Our confidence’ he would restore,

Of that there is no doubt;

But if there is a chair to mend,

We have to send it out.

proper: correct
furnace: an enclosed
structure in which
heat is produced for
keeping homes warm
restore: to give back
mend: to repair
something that is
damaged

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