Read the following stories and poetry and answer the questions choosing the most appropriate option: |
3. My mother saw a Dancing Bear |
My mother saw a dancing bear |
By the schoolyard, a day in June |
The keeper stood with chain and bar |
And whistle-pipe and played a tune. |
| The bruin lifted up its head. |
| And lifted up its dusty feet, |
| And all the children laughed to see |
| It caper in the summer heat. |
They watched as for the Queen it died |
They watched it march. They watched it halt. |
They heard the keeper as he cried, |
"Now, roly-poly! Somersault" |
| And then my mother said, there came |
| The keeper with a begging-cup, |
| The bear with burning coat of fur, |
| Shaming the laughter to a stop. |
They paid a penny for the dance, |
But what they saw was not the show; |
Only, in bruin's aching eyes, |
Far-distant forests, and the snow. |
-Charles Causley |
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