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BEST SELLER BY O HENRY: CLASS IX (C.B.S.E.)  PART-1 L-5: Best Seller by O. Henry: Class IX The narrator was going to  Pittsburgh  on a business tour one day during last summer. He was travelling in a chair car which was filled with people. Some of them were ladies wearing brown silk dresses stitched in several styles. Men were also travelling among them. They seemed to from different business. The narrator was sitting in chair No. 07 and he was busy noticing the back side of the head of a person, who was sitting in the chair No. 09. All of  a sudden, the person sitting in the chair No. 09 hurled (threw) a book on the floor between his chair and the window uttering some critical comments. The narrator read its title ‘’The Rose Lady and Trevelyan’, one of the bestselling novels of that time. After that, the person turned his chair towards the window. The moment the narrator had a glimpse of the man in the chair No. 09, he recognized him immediately...

Song of the Rain by Kahil Gibran: Class IX Kahil Gibrana is a Lebanese-American, artist, poet and writer. The use of formal language as well as insight in life situations in his poetry is notable. In this poem, he presents rain in personification undergoing the cycle of birth and death. He uses devices like imagery, metaphor and personification to highlight the theme. Stanza 1: “ I am dotted……..valleys” Word-meanings : 1. Dotted: covered in dots 2. Adorn: decorate 3. Explanation: The rain says that it is dropped from the heaven by the gods in the form of dotted threads. It means that when the rain pours in, it seems that long silver threads with shining dots on them are coming down towards the earth from the sky. The moment they reach the atmosphere of the earth, they fall on the fields and valleys. The fields and the valleys become clean and bright due to rain. In a way Nature takes the rain to decorate the fields and valleys. Stanza 2 : “I am beautiful pearls…….gardens...