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Lesson-3 His First Flight

The young seagull was afraid to fly and leave the ledge while his brothers and sisters had already learned to fly. His parents threatened to stop feeding him if he did not fly. After going without food for 24 hours, the young seagull saw his mother holding a fish just out of reach, giving him the motivation to try flying. With a loud scream, he launched himself off the ledge and felt his wings spread out, beginning his first flight. Relieved and excited, his parents and siblings flew around him celebrating. Exhausted from his first flight and still hungry, he landed on the water and began swimming, finding relief in the sea.

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Lesson-3 His First Flight

The young seagull was afraid to fly and leave the ledge while his brothers and sisters had already learned to fly. His parents threatened to stop feeding him if he did not fly. After going without food for 24 hours, the young seagull saw his mother holding a fish just out of reach, giving him the motivation to try flying. With a loud scream, he launched himself off the ledge and felt his wings spread out, beginning his first flight. Relieved and excited, his parents and siblings flew around him celebrating. Exhausted from his first flight and still hungry, he landed on the water and began swimming, finding relief in the sea.

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Lesson – 3

HIS FIRST FLIGHT


-Liam O’ Flaherty
EXERCISE 4:
1. How did the parents try to make the young seagull fly?
Ans: - The young seagull was afraid to fly with his brothers and
sister, he failed to muster up courage to take that plunge. His
father and mother had come around calling him shrilly,
upbraiding, threatening to let him starve on his ledge unless he
flew away.
2. How were seagull’s brothers and sisters in art of flight?
Ans: - The seagull’s brother and sister wings were far shorter
than that of his. But they ran to the brink, flapped their wings
and flew away. They know how to skim the waves and how to
drive for fish.
3. Why did the condition of the seagull on the ledge become
desperate?
Ans: - The condition of the seagull on the ledge had become
desperate because he did not know how to fly and he was
alone on the ledge for twenty-four hours he did not had any
food and he became weak and hungry.
4. Describe the behaviours of the seagull in the nest when he
was alone?
Ans: - The seagull had not eaten since the previous nightfall so,
he felt the heat of the ascending sky. Then he had found a dry
piece of mackerel’s tail at the far end of his ledge and there was
not a single scrap of food left. At that time, he ran a little
forward to brink of the ledge and attempted to flap his wings
but, he could not fly since he was afraid to do so.
5. How did the seagull begin to fly?
Ans: - The seagull started to fly when his mother was just
opposite to him with the piece of fish in her beak almost within
reach of his beak. He waited a moment in surprise, wondering
why she did not come nearer, and then, maddened by hunger,
he dived at the fish. With a loud scream, he felt out ward and
downwards into space and after that he felt his wings spread
outward and he began to fly.
6. Describe what other seagulls did to show their happiness
when the young seagull began to fly?
Ans: - When the young seagull began to fly his father flew over
him screaming and his mother swooped past him, her wings
making a loud noise. Then, he saw his two brothers and sister
flying around him curveting and banking and soaring and diving.
7.How did the young seagull begin to swim in the sea water?
Ans: - The young seagull dropped his legs to stand on the green
sea, his legs sank into it. But he cannot rise again as he was
tired and weak with hunger. His feet sank into the green sea,
and then his breast touched it and he sank no further and he
was floating on it. Thus, the young seagull began to swim in the
sea water.

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