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Reading II
Look at the picture below and answer the questions.
a. What does the rickshaw puller look like?
b. Is the rickshaw rider happy? Give reasons.
Rickshaw Ride
That man by the harbour
Spitting into the water
Is as old as China.
He is made of leather
And his folded face
Is like a sandbar
At low tide.
Will you take a ride
On his rickshaw?
He will not thank you
For your dollar,
He knows that to you
A dollar does not matter.
Off you go with a clatter
Up to Victoria
On up the long hill
Pass the cathedral
To the peak Tram
Pull! Pull!
He leans to it
His muscles at neck and calf and shoulder
And his dark veins that snake
Take your eye
Not what passes by.
Let him not break
Something for my sake,
For my dollar.
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