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Read the Lines Given Above and Answer the Question that Follow. in Stanza 3, Why Did the Man Refuse to Use His Stick of Wood? - English 2 (Literature in English)

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The next man looking 'cross the way
Saw one not of his church
And Couldn't bring himself to give 
The fire his stick of birch.

The third one sat in tattered clothes.
He gave his coat a hitch.
Why should his log be put to use
To warm the idle rich?
The rich man just sat back and thought 
of the wealth he had in store
And how to keep what he had earned
From the lazy shiftless poor.

Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow.

In stanza 3, why did the man refuse to use his stick of wood?

एक पंक्ति में उत्तर
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उत्तर

The man refuses to give up his stick because of religious intolerance as he sees a man not belonging to his church.

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अध्याय 1.02: The Cold Within - Stanza 3, 4 and 5

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