Class 7 English Unseen Passages Type I - Passage 4 — Flashcards

Read the passage below and answer the questions:

The Lion and the Echo
1 The king of the Beasts deep in the wood,
Roared as loudly as it could.
Right away the echo came back
And the lion thought itself under attack.
2 “What voice is that roars like mine ?”
The echo replied “Mine, mine…”
3 “Who might you be ?” asked the furious lion
“I'm King of this jungle, this jungle is mine.”
And the echo came back a second time,
'This jungle is mine, is mine, is mine.”
4 The lion swore revenge if only it could
Discover the intruder in the wood.
It roared, “Coward! Come out and show yourself!'
But the fearless echo replied simply “…elf, elf”
5 “Come out,” said the lion, “enough deceit,
D. you fear, for your own defeat ?
But all the echo did was repeat
“Defeat., .defeat.. .defeat…”
6 Frightened by every conceivable sound,
The exhausted lion sank to the ground.
A bird in a tree looked down and it said
“Dear lion, I'm afraid that what you hear
Is simply the voice of your lion-sized fear !”