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14 What Dashu Did
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What Dashu Did

Theme: Humour

Time to start

Form smaller words from the word given below. The clues will help you.
N A U G H T Y
1. a quantity of no importance

2. having a strong sharp taste or smell

3. (of a ghost) to appear in a place repeatedly

4. a violent person, especially a criminal

5. an old-fashioned way of saying ‘all/everything’

6. an informal way of calling someone’s aunt

7. to squeeze (someone) tightly in one’s arms,
typically to express affection

8. to hold something at a high point without support
from below

Let’s read the story of a naughty boy named Dashu.

As soon as Nabinchand came to school there was a big commotion. Word got around
that the previous evening he had been attacked by dacoits! People came running from all
corners of the school to hear this story.

‘Dacoits attacked you? Really?’

‘Yes, really.’ commotion: noisy and confused
activity
Last evening, he had gone to Jyotilal’s house to study. While word got around: news spread
fast within a group of people
returning from there some hoodlums had stopped him, hoodlums: criminals, especially
smacked him on his head and sprayed water on his brand who are part of a gang
new fancy hat. And while leaving, they told him, ‘Stand there smacked: struck someone
typically with the palm of the
quietly. You say one word and we will blow your head off.’ So hand and as a punishment

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