NCERT Book Class 8 English (Honeydew) Chapter 6 This is Jody’s Fawn

Before you read
Often, instead of rushing to the doctor to treat a small
cut or burn, we find quick and effective cures using
things available at home. Can you think of some such
‘home remedies’ for
a cut on your knee?
a burn on your arm?
a bee sting?
In this story, Jody’s father has been bitten by a
rattlesnake. He quickly kills a doe and uses its heart
and liver to draw out the poison. Jody wonders what
will happen to the little fawn left without a mother.
drift back to:
I go back to
dilated:
Jody allowed his thoughts to drift back to the fawn. He enlarged
could not keep it out of his mind. He had held it, in his a close shave:
dreams, in his arms. He slipped from the table and went a narrow
to his father’s bedside. Penny lay at rest. His eyes were escape
open and clear, but the pupils were still dark and dilated. kept your
Jody said, “How are you feeling, Pa?” head:
stayed calm in
“Just fine, son. O1d Death has gone thieving elsewhere. a difficult
But wasn’t it a close shave!” situation
“I agree.”
Penny said, “I’m proud of you, boy, the way you kept
your head and did what was needed.”
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