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    The document summarizes a story about King Hobu who was worried about his royal feet getting dirty. He asked his court for solutions but they proposed complex ideas. An old tanner suggested a simple solution of covering the King's feet with shoes to prevent them from getting dirty. The King's feet were saved from getting dirty by using the tanner's idea of making shoes, solving the problem in a straightforward way unlike the other court members' complicated suggestions.

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    The document summarizes a story about King Hobu who was worried about his royal feet getting dirty. He asked his court for solutions but they proposed complex ideas. An old tanner suggested a simple solution of covering the King's feet with shoes to prevent them from getting dirty. The King's feet were saved from getting dirty by using the tanner's idea of making shoes, solving the problem in a straightforward way unlike the other court members' complicated suggestions.

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    The document summarizes a story about King Hobu who was worried about his royal feet getting dirty. He asked his court for solutions but they proposed complex ideas. An old tanner suggested a simple solution of covering the King's feet with shoes to prevent them from getting dirty. The King's feet were saved from getting dirty by using the tanner's idea of making shoes, solving the problem in a straightforward way unlike the other court members' complicated suggestions.

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    THE INVENTION OF SHOES

    - Rabindranath Tagore

    I. Answer the following.

    1. What was King Hobu worried about?

    Ans. King Hobu was worried about his royal feet getting dirty. This worried him
    so much as he stayed up all night thinking about a remedy for the problem.

    2. What is the difference between the solution given by the tanner


    and the others in the King’s court? Can we learn anything about it?

    Ans. The old and wise tanner gave a simple remedy of covering the King’s feet
    with shoes to prevent it from getting dirty whereas the ministers and the other
    learned men complicated the issue with irrelevant ideas. This explains the fact
    that life is simple and the problems in our life would find a remedy only if we
    don’t complicate them too much. It also teaches us that more than education
    common sense and presence of mind help us to face the challenges of life.

    II. Explain with reference to the given context.

    1. “You were supposed to get rid of the dust, not fill the world with
    it.”

    a. Who said these words to whom?

    Ans. King Hobu said these words to his ministers and courtiers who had
    ordered innumerable brooms to clean the kingdom which ended in mounding it
    up with dust.

    b. Did they really fill up the world with dust?

    Ans. No, they did not fill up the world with dust yet the author uses such terms
    to picturize the intensity of the scene to the readers.
    2. “The royal feet were saved. So was Gobu. And so was the earth.”

    a. Whose feet are referred to in the above extract?

    Ans. King Hobu’s feet are referred to in the above extract.

    b. How was it saved?

    Ans. It was saved from getting dirty by the wise idea of the old tanner. He
    prepared a pair of shoes that protected the royal feet from getting dirty.

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