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had learned to be satisfied with it, and did not long to be something
or somebody else. And as he never asked for things he did not have, or

desired to be greater and mightier than other people, he was happy at
last, and never again heard the voice of the mountain spirit.

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Glossary

contented : happy and satisfied
dwelt : lived
splendid : excellent, impressive
inclined : interested
vanished : disappeared
scarcely : hardly, almost not
captive : prisoner, in hold of others
toil : labour hard
scanty : smaller than expected or necessary

2.1. Match the idioms with their meanings.

a. break off i. to drop, attack somebody
ii. to remain without any
b. fall upon
movement
iii. to look at something

c. ask for through an opening like
door, window or hole

iv. to separate a part from a
d. stand still
larger piece

e. peep through v. to demand, claim, beg
2.2. State whether the following sentences are true or false.

a. The stonecutter was happy with his job for a long time.

b. He didn’t have many customers because he was not very fine at
work.

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