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The document summarizes a story from the book "The Hunt" by Anna Sewell. It describes a hunting scene where dogs were chasing a hare and men on horseback were following. The narrator came upon a sad sight of two horses down by a brook, one struggling in the stream and the other a young man named George Gordon, the son of the squire, lying still with a broken neck. The last part of the hunt ended tragically with the deaths of George Gordon and a black horse named Rob Roy whose leg was broken, as well as the hare being chased and killed.

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The Hunt 1

The document summarizes a story from the book "The Hunt" by Anna Sewell. It describes a hunting scene where dogs were chasing a hare and men on horseback were following. The narrator came upon a sad sight of two horses down by a brook, one struggling in the stream and the other a young man named George Gordon, the son of the squire, lying still with a broken neck. The last part of the hunt ended tragically with the deaths of George Gordon and a black horse named Rob Roy whose leg was broken, as well as the hare being chased and killed.

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THE HUNT

- ANNA SEWELL

Q.1. Who were the dogs chasing? Why were they doing so? Why
were men in green coats following them?
Ans. The dogs were chasing a hare in order to hunt it down. The
men in green coats were following the dogs because they were
the hunters.

Q.2. What ‘sad sight’ did the narrator see by the brook?
Ans. The narrator saw a ‘sad sight’ by the brook. Two horses were
down, one of them was struggling in the stream and the other
one was groaning on the grass.

Q.3. Who was the young man who lay still on the grass? Why did
everyone look serious when he was raised?
Ans. The young man who lay still on the grass was George
Gordon, the only son of the squire and the pride of his family.
When he was raised, his head fell back and his arms hung down.
Everyone looked serious as they understood that he had broken
his neck and was, perhaps, no more.

Q.4.Describe the last and final part of the hunt.


Ans. The last and final part of the hunt was rather tragic. A young
man named George Gordon, the only son of the squire and a
black horse, named Rob Roy, whose one leg was broken, lost their
lives. Besides these two, the hare who was being hunted down
also lost its life.

EXTRACT
“And serves him right, too,” said one of the colts.

Q.1. Whom does ‘him’ refer to?


Ans. The word ‘him’ refers to the young man who lay quite still on
the grass. He was George Gordon, the only son of the squire.

Q.2. What has happened to him?


Ans. As this rider fell from hi horse, his neck broke and he lay still
on the grass.

Q.3. What has he done that ‘serves him right’?


Ans. This young hunter had mercilessly employed hounds to chase
and kill a hare for sport. When he fell off the horse himself, his
neck broke and it ‘served him right’.

Complete the following sentences:


1. The other colts and Black Beauty were feeding at the lower part
of the field when they heard the cry of hounds in the distance.
2. The dogs were chasing a hare and were also followed by
hunters on horse backs.
3. After the hare was killed by the hounds, one of the hunters
rode up and whipped off the dogs so that they do not tear her
into pieces.
4. The black horse named Rob Roy was shot dead because one of
his legs were broken and he was of no use.

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