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How does Jody’s mother react when she hears that he is going to bring the fawn home? Why does she react in this way?

Jody’s mother was baffled and puzzled to know that Jody brought the fawn home to raise him as his responsibility on Penny’s consent. She questioned Jody about the fawn. Jody’s mother was not surprised on the fact that he brought fawn to raise him, but the positive thought of Jody that led him do so.

Jody told her that Penny’s life was saved in exchange of the life of a doe and the fawn belongs to that doe. So, he wanted to bring it to raise. At this she said that, there was nothing to feed it except milk.


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What did Doc Wilson mean when he said, “Nothing in the world ever comes quite free”?

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How did Jody look after the fawn, after he accepted the responsibility for doing this?

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Look at these pairs of sentences.

Penny said to Jody, “Will you be back before dinner?”


Penny asked Jody if he would be back before dinner.


“How are you feeling, Pa?” asked Jody.


Jody asked his father how he was feeling.


Here are some questions in direct speech. Put them into reported speech.


(i) Penny said, “Do you really want it son?”


(ii) Mill-wheel said, “Will he ride back with me?”


(iii) He said to Mill-wheel, “Do you think the fawn is still there?”


(iv) He asked Mill-wheel, “Will you help me find him?”


(v) He said, “Was it up here that Pa got bitten by the snake?”

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Look at these two sentences.

He tumbled backward.


It tuned its head.


The first sentence has an intransitive verb, a verb without an object. The second sentence has a transitive verb. It has a direct object. We can ask: “What did it turn?” You can answer. “Its head. It tuned its head.”


Say whether the verb in each sentence below


is transitive or intransitive. Ask yourself a


‘what’ question about the verb, as in the


example above. (For some verbs, the object is


a person, so ask the question ‘who’ instead of ‘what’).


(i) Jody then went to the kitchen.


(ii) The fawn wobbled after him.


(iii) You found him.


(iv) He picked it up.


(v) He dipped his fingers in the milk.


(vi) It bleated frantically and butted him.


(vii) The fawn sucked his fingers.


(viii) He lowered his fingers slowly into the milk.


(ix) It stamped its small hoofs impatiently.


(x) He held his fingers below the level of the milk.


(xi) The fawn followed him.


(xii) He walked all day.


(xiii) He stroked its sides.


(xiv) The fawn lifted its nose.


(xv) Its legs hung limply.