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‘Don’t you dare sleep!’ Dr. Krishnan warned Zigzag fiercely as he went towards his room.
He had hardly walked through the swinging half-door that separated his clinic from the waiting room when he heard a strange voice say, ‘You there in the blue T-shirt, don’t jump on the sofa. And you in the red dress, don’t swing on the curtain.’
It was Zigzag’s voice, clear and commanding. There was pin-drop silence in the room as everyone waited, open-mouthed, for Zigzag’s next sentence.
Explanation:
When Dr. Krishnan was ready to enter his clinic room, he warned Zigzag not to sleep because of its snoring. He then proceeded to enter his room. He heard a weird voice that he had never heard before as he walked through the swinging half-door that separated his clinic from the waiting room. And the voice began instructing Mr. Krishnan's young patients, "You there in the blue T-shirt, don't jump on the sofa. And you in the red dress, don't swing on the curtain." It was Zigzag's voice, its commanding voice, that surprised Krishnan. And there was a pin-drop silence in Dr. Krishnan's clinic for the first time.
Everyone in the clinic was taken aback when they heard a bird talking and instructing the children. They were expecting Zigzag's next comment. Zigzag was no longer bored or drowsy. Dr. Krishnan must have answered a long-standing doubt about what Dr. Somu meant when he said, 'Zigzag was an absolute treasure and would be useful to Krishnan.'
Meaning of difficult words:
S. No | Word | Meaning |
1 | Dare | To have enough courage to do something |
2 | Fierce | Very strongly or violently |
3 | Commanding | Strong or powerful |
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