The Adventure of Toto
1.How does Toto come to Grandfather's private zoo?(তোতো কেনেকৈ গ্ৰান্দফাদাৰ ৰ ব্যক্তিগত চিৰিয়াখানা লৈ আহিল?)
Ans:-Toto was a pretty monkey.Grandfather bought Toto from a Tonga-driver for the sum of five rupees.Grandfather decided to keep Toto in his private zoo.In this way Toto comes to Grandfather's private zoo.
2."Toto was a pretty monkey ".In what sense is Toto pretty?(তোতো আছিল এটা মৰমীয়াল বান্দৰ।কি কাৰণত ইয়াক মৰমীয়াল বুলি কোৱা হৈছে?)
Ans:-Toto was a pretty monkey as he was very naughty which grandfather liked most.His eyes were bright and sparkling.His teeth were pearly white.His hands looked dried up but his fingers were quick moving and wicked.He used his tail as his third hand and used to hang from a branch .He could scoop up any delicacy with his tail when he found it out of reach of his hands.In these sense Toto was considered as a pretty monkey.
3.Why does Grandfather take Toto to Saharanpoor ane how?Why does the ticket collector insist on calling Toto a dog?(ককাদেউতা ই কিয় তোতো ক চাহাৰানপুৰ লৈ গৈছিল আৰু কিয়?টিকত কালেক্টৰ জনে কিয় তোতো ক কুকুৰ বুলি গণ্য কৰিছিল?)
Ans-Grandfather wanted to go to Saharanpur to collect his pension.To keep sectet the presence of Toto at his home from Grandmother he decided to take Toto with him.Grandmother didnot like to bring any new animal and bird to her home.
So Grandfather provided a big canvas kit bag for Toto and some straw was laid at the bottom of the bag.Then Toto was put into it.The bag was closed and there was no escape for Toto. The canvas was too strong to bite his way through.
The ticket collector told that Grandfather had carried a dog with him and demanded the fare for it.Grandfather said that That was a monkey,not a dog.But Toto was classified as a dog by the ticket Collector and he had to pay a sum of three rupees to him.
4.How does Toto take a bath?Where has he learnt to do this?How does Toto almost boil himself alive?(তোতো য়ে কেনেকৈ গা ধুইছিল? সি এনেদৰে গা ধুবলৈ ক'ত শিকিলে?তোতো য়ে কেনেকৈ নিজকে জীয়াই জীয়াই প্ৰায় সিজাই পেলাইছিল?
Ans:-Grandmother provided a large bowel of warm water for Toto during the cold Winter evenings for his bath.He would cunningly test the temperature with his hand,then gradually step into the bath,first one foot,then the other until he was into the water up to his neck.Once comfortable,he would take the soap in his hand or feet and rub himself all over.When the water became cold,he would get out and run as quickly as he could to the kitchen fire in order to dry himself.
Toto has learnt to bath observing the narrator when he took his bath.
One day Toto entered the kitchen and removed the lid of the kettle.He tested the temperature of the water if it was warm enough for bath.He got in the kettle,with head sticking out from the open kettle.This was just fine for a while,until the water began to boil.Then Toto felt Cold at the top of the kettle and warm at the bottom.He continued hopping up and down for sometime,until Grandmother arrived.He became half boiled and Grandmother then save him.Thus Toto almost boiled himself alive once.
