Question 19

Sentences of a paragraph are given below. While the first and the last sentences (S1 and S6) are in the correct order, the sentences in between are jumbled up. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
S1. I was standing at the gaol gate talking to the gaoler when we noticed a man carrying a strange animal.
A. This animal had been twisted round in a most peculiar way forming a kind of knot.
B. The gaoler sent for him and I saw something between a lizard and crocodile, about two feet long with claws and a scaly covering.
C. When asked by the gaoler what he proposed to do with it, he replied with a broad smile that he would make bhujji- a kind of curry - out of it.
D. Its owner had passed a pole through this knot and was merrily carrying it in this fashion.
S6. Subsequently I discovered from reading F W Champion’s book -The Jungle in Sunlight and Shadow- that this animal was the pangolin.


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