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Then down on all fours, like two good natured bears,

Go Henry and Ed under tables and chairs,

‘Til, quite out of breath, Ed is heard to declare

He believes that those glasses are not anywhere.

But Nelly, who, leaning on Grandpapa’s knee,

Was thinking most earnestly where they could be,

Looked suddenly up in the kind, faded eyes,

And her own shining brown ones grew big with surprise.

She clapped both her hands—all her dimples came out—

She turned to the boys with a bright roguish shout: quite out of breath: breathing
very rapidly
declare: to make known formally
‘You may leave off your looking, both Henry and Ed, earnestly: importantly
dimple: a small hollow place that
For there are the glasses on Grandpapa’s head!’ appears on a person's cheeks
when they smile
roguish: mischievous

Time to answer

A. Choose the correct option.

1. Whom does Grandpapa call for help?

the young ones Henry Nelly Edward

2. What did Grandpapa offer to the winner of the hunt?

a dollar twenty cents ten cents thirty cents

3. Good-natured bears .

are friendly and cheerful get angry easily

pounce on you and lick you hunt you down cheerfully

4. Which figure of speech has the poet used in the following lines?

…like two good natured bears,

Go Henry and Ed under tables and chairs,

metaphor personification simile alliteration

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