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3. How did Kapil and his friends spend most of their time
in their childhood?
4. What had Kapil done that he had to sit still for two hours?

5. What discovery did Kapil make by sitting on the papaya
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tree?
6. “She counted them every day.” What did the lady count
every day? Why? “I got even the next day.” What does
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this mean? What does this tell us about Kapil?

5. The other really naughty thing I remember doing is riding
the police horses that were left in the huge open green areas
to graze. A few of my friends and I would go there regularly
and try to ride them. They were huge police horses, not
used to clumsy children scrambling on to them but despite
innumerable falls and many a fright, I learnt to ride and
control a horse. In fact, even today, I am quite comfortable
on a horse without a saddle as that was the way I had
taught myself to ride! Once we had learnt to master the
horse (there was one I became particularly attached to), we
became more courageous and ventured out of the fenced
area with the horses. Nobody would have noticed except
for the fact that I bit off more than I could chew. I decided
to take the horse home and house him in our back garden
which was about seven hundred square feet in size. The
horse could probably have been tethered there, but I hadn’t
anticipated the struggle I would have, in getting the animal
through the tiny five and a half foot by two foot doorway!
We were caught within minutes of our arrival. The horse, of
course, was duly returned and the chiding I received from
my father discouraged my venturing near the grazing fields
again!
6. I was never very studious and always preferred to spend
my time playing games and participating in athletics where
I could use up my energy. I went to a small local school
that had few cricketing facilities. The games they offered at
that time were basketball, football, table tennis and hockey,
probably because all they required was a ball, a couple of

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