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Q-4 Answer the following questions. Q-1 Describe the Poet’s doll. Ans -   The poet’s doll had beautiful curly hair and red and white cheeks. The poet regarded her doll as the prettiest doll in the world. Q-2 How did the poet lose the doll? The poet lost her doll when she was playing in the heath one day. Q-3 How do you know that the poet was sad when the doll was lost? Ans- The poet was very sad when she lost her doll in the heath. She searched Very hard for her but she could not find her. She cried for more than a week. Q-4 How different did the doll look when she was found? Ans - The poet found her doll in the heath. But she no longer looked the same. Her paint was all washed off. She had lost an arm because the cows had trodden on it. Her hair was no longer curly. Q-5 Why does the poet still find the doll,’the prettiest doll in the world’? Ans- Despite the doll looking vastly different after being found again, the  poet still beli

 Poem- 10 THE LITTLE DOLL The little girl had a sweet doll. Her cheeks were red and she had curly hair. She thought her doll was the prettiest doll in the world. The little girl lost her doll when she played in the heath (uncultivated open area) one day. She searched for her far and wide, high and low, but she could not find her. She cried and cried for more than a week. The little girl found her doll as she played in the heath one day. Folks said that the doll had changed a lot. The changes were: Ø Her paint was all washed off. Ø She had lost an arm because the cows had trodden (stepped, walked over) on it. Ø Her hair was no longer curly. The doll was the prettiest doll for the little girl. The doll was precious to her. One day she lost her doll while playing. Later she found it but the doll was actually not pretty to look at, as it changed a lot. Yet, as per the little girl’s memories in the past the doll was still prettiest doll in the world for her.

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