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Exercise | Q B.2 | Page 35 Answer the following question in about 100-150 word. Narrate the extensive search operation made by the policemen in the house.

Exercise | Q B.2 | Page 35

Answer the following question in about 100-150 word.

Narrate the extensive search operation made by the policemen in the house.

SOLUTION

Introduction:

James Grover Thurber was an American cartoonist, story writer, journalist, etc. The story “The Night the ghost got in” is extracted from his auto-bio-graphy.


Unusual things:

The incident took place in the narrator’s house. He heard strange sound as he takes a bath. He heard footsteps circling the dinning room table. He thought that it was burglar or ghost. He rushed to his brothers room. They both looked down. There were none but they heard foot steps.


 

Arrival of Police:

The brothers slammed the doors. The mother woke up. She called the police by throwing a shoe into neighbours house. The neighbour called the police. The police arrived. They broke open the door. They ransacked the floor. They gleamed flash lights. They told that there were none. The police returned home empty-handed.


Screen behind the confusion:

The next morning the grandfather of the narrator told that he only came to the dinning room for water. Then only the narrator tame to know all the confusions.


Conclusion:

The narrator realised that it was his mistake. The imagination of thinking his grandfather as a ghosts created a lot of confusion in the house.


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