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प्रश्न
Go to your school/college library and read some other stories by O’Henry like, ‘The Gift of the Magi’, ‘The Last Leaf’ and ‘After Twenty years’. Write the stories in short in your notebook.
उत्तर
Do it yourself.
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______(8 syllable)
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| surprised | |
| strange | |
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