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Read the given lines and answer the questions that follow.

“At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms. Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school.”

(i) What does man do in the first stage of life?

(ii) Does the schoolboy show eagerness to go to school?

(iii) How does the schoolboy walk up to his school?

(iv) Explain, ‘Mewling and pucking’.

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(i) In the first stage of life man plays the role of an infant. He is always crying and vomiting in the nurse’s arms.

(ii) No, the schoolboy doesn’t show any interest in going to school. Rather he is unwilling to go there.

(iii) He is inching slowly and unwillingly like a snail towards his school.

(iv) It means crying and vomiting.

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