Life's Sweet Sounds

                    Life’s Sweet Sounds 

B. Answer these questions with reference to the context. 

3. a) They are the sounds that come   from a distance.

     b) They are called voices on the wind as they come walking upon the wings of the wind.

     c) Two examples of voices on the wind are as follows:

         i. The cries of fisherman, out, on the river 

        ii. Drums, beating rhythmically, in a                       distant village.

C. Answer these questions.

1. The author likes the tin roofs even though they are inconvenient because the rain  makes sound when it falls on them.

            They are inconvenient because they do not let the author sleep.

3. In the night, the sound of corrugated tin roofs, when it is hit by the rainfall, seems to be like drumming; and in the morning, he hears the crow cawing, bulbuls and              babblers bustling in an out of the bushes, and the ascending trill of the whistling              thrush.

5. The water of the mountain stream seems to be in a hurry as it is already late, and so it likes to reach the bottom of the hill as soon as possible.

7. The author describes the beautiful distant sounds as the voices on the wind as they          come to him walking on the wings of the wind.