NCERT Book Class 6 English (Honeysuckle) Chapter 7 Fair Play

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Before you read
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Has your best friend ever done something you
thought was wrong? What did you do then? Did
you keep quiet or did you tell your friend what
you thought?
Read this story about two friends who had to
decide what was more important — friendship
and enmity, or a sense of what is right and
what is wrong.

Fair Play
Part I
1. JUMMAN Shaikh and Algu Chowdhry were
good friends. So strong was their bond
of friendship that when either of them
went away from the village, the other
looked after his family. Both were greatly
respected in the village.
2. Jumman had an old aunt who had
some property. This she transferred to
him on the understanding that she
would stay with him and he would look
after her. The arrangement worked well
for a couple of years. Then the situation became indifferent:
lost interest in or
changed. Jumman and his family were did not care for
tired of the old relative. Jumman became grudged: gave
as indifferent to her as his wife, who unwillingly; felt
angry/ unhappy
grudged even the little food that the old about giving
lady wanted every day. She swallowed swallowed these
these insults along with her food for a insults: tolerated
few months. But patience has its limits. them