You must be familiar with the following nursery rhymes:

i. ‘Baa baa black sheep, have you any wool.’


ii. ‘Mary had a little lamb, whose fleece was white as snow.’


Answer the following:


a. Which parts of the black sheep have wool?


b. What is meant by the white fleece of the lamb?

(a). The hairy skin called fleece* has wool in the black sheep.


(b). White fleece*of the lamb means white coloured hair of lamb that is used to make wool.
fleece*: It is the woolly covering of a sheep or goat.


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