Book: A Pact with the Sun
Chapter: 2. The Friendly Mongoose
Subject: English - Class 6th
Q. No. 4 of Questions
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Why did the farmer’s wife strike the mongoose with the basket?
When the farmer’s wife returned from shopping she saw the mongoose had blood-stained mouth and paws. This lead to her believing that the mongoose has killed her baby. So, in grief and anger she struck the mongoose with the heavy basket, thus killing him.
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