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Class 8 Lesson 1 The Wind Cap Unit 3 Bengali Meaning
WBBSE Class 8 English The Wind Cap Bengali Analysis
Class 8 Lesson 1 Unit 3 The Wind Cap
The Wind Cap By Jane Yolen
The Wind Cap
Class VIII
English
Lesson 1
The Wind Cap
By Jane Yolen
Unit III
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"Oh, let me go ashore just for one day," he begged the captain when they had sighted land. He promised he would return but the captain was unmoved. However, Jon could not stop dreaming of the land.
One quiet afternoon, he lay fast asleep and fell to dreaming again. Unknown to him, the ship stood offshore from his old farm. In Jon's dream the seasons turned rapidly and as each turned, so did Jon in his bed. Consequently, the cap on his head twisted round and about. It called up a squall from the clear sky that hit the ship without a warning.
The wind had been whirling about the boat tearing the sails and snapping the spars. "It's his fault," the sailors cried. They shouted in anger and fear and tried to rip the cap off his head.
Well, they were unsuccessful, for it was a fairy cap. They pulled it and twisted it
and so the squall became a storm, the mightiest they had ever seen. The captain ordered his men to bring Jon before him. In anger, he grabbed him by the tail of his striped cap, twisted him thrice and flung him out to the sea .But the winds called up by the cap spun the ship three times around.
As Jon went under the waves, the cap came off his head. Soon the storm stopped, and Jon swam ashore. The cap followed him. When he got to the land, Jon picked up the cap and ran home to his mother and farm.
Again in the winter, when the snow lay heavy on the fields, he began to dream of the sea. Jon went to the wardrobe, got out the fairy cap and stared at it for a long moment. Tucking it in his shirt, he ran out to the field. He placed the wind cap under a stone where he knew the fairy man would find it. Then he left again for the seas.
For the rest of his life, Jon spent half the year on a ship and half on the shore till at last he owned his own boat and a hundred acre farm land. From then on he came to be known as Captain Turtle for he was as much at home on the water as he was on the land.
Word nest:
offshore
a little away from the sea shore
squall
a sudden, strong wind
snapping
hitting suddenly with a sharp noise
spars
strong poles used to support the sails
spun
turned round and round quickly
wardrobe
: a large cupboard for hanging clothes
tucking
:
folding and putting in place for a neat look