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Mijbil the Otter — English (Language & Literature) STD 10 — Question

CBSE BoardEnglish MediumSTD 10English (Language & Literature)Mijbil the Otter6 Marks
Question
Ingenuity, originality and being inventive, make one lovable, admirable and adorable. The author Gavin Maxwell and Mijbil, the otter, win our heart for being original and inventive. Comment.
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Undoubtedly, ingenuity, originality and being inventive, make one lovable, admirable and adorable. Both Maxwell and Mijbil are exceedingly ingenuous, original, and inventive. They win our hearts with their amiability.
Maxwell was quite ingenuous; he made a clever plan to transport Mijbil to London. He had a box of eighteen inches square made, and put Mij into the box so that he would become accustomed to it.
Mij was also very clever, playful and agile otter. He loved playing with toys. His favorite toy was a ping-pong ball; he invented a game of his own which could keep him engrossed for up to half an hour at a time. A suitcase that the author had taken to Iraq had become damaged on the journey home, so that the lid, when closed, remained at a slope from one end to the other. Mij discovered that if he placed the ball on the high end it would run down the length of the suitcase. He would dash around to the other end to ambush its arrival, hide from it, crouching, to spring up and take it by surprise, grab it and trot off with it to the high end once more.

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