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exactly like a fan.”

Now it was the sixth fellow to touch the elephant. He got to

touch the elephant’s tail. “Oh foolish fellows,” he cried, ‘You

surely have lost your senses. This elephant is not like a wall or a

spear or a snake or a tree, not is he like a fan. But any man with

a particle of sense can see that he is exactly like a rope.”

Glossary

Beast : big animal

Spear : a long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon.
Take hold : grasp / seize

Particle : a very small piece

2.1. Tick the correct answer.

a. The six men were not able to .........................................
see feel touch

b. ‘Beast’ in the fifth line refers to the ................................
six men elephant

iii. the elephant driver

c. The first man got to touch the ............... of the elephant.

tail trunk tusk

d. The ................... of the elephant felt like a spear.
tusk leg ear

e. The sixth fellow thought that ..................... were wrong.

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