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Answer the following question.

What did the bear eat? There were two things he was not allowed to do. What were they?

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The bear had never tasted meat; he ate the same food as the dogs and often out of the same plate. He ate bread, porridge, potato, cabbage, turnip, apples, etc. Two things he was not allowed to do were to climb trees and touch beehives.

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Chapter 8: The Bear Story - Exercise [Page 57]

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NCERT English - An Alien Hand Class 7
Chapter 8 The Bear Story
Exercise | Q 3 | Page 57

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