NCERT Solutions for Poorvi Chapter 3 Mystery And Magic

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The unit sets three kinds of the unexplained side by side: a puzzle solved by reasoning, a magic that answers to a promise, and natural wonders that science can explain but cannot make ordinary. The Case of the Fifth Word (Donald J. Sobol) is an Encyclopedia Brown mystery. A dying jewel thief, Tim Nolan, leaves a will and a calendar sheet reading Nom Utes Sweden Hurts ; Leroy 'Encyclopedia' Brown reads the four words as Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday with the letters d-a-y removed, and names the unwritten fifth word — Fir , or Friday. The Magic Brush of Dreams is a narrative folk-tale ballad in ABCB rhyme. Gopi is given a brush on one condition — 'Paint not for the wealthy ones, / But only for the poor' — and keeps that promise through a Zamindar's order, a prison cell, an escape

• The Case of the Fifth Word
• The Case of the Fifth Word, Part I
• The Case of the Fifth Word, Parts I and II
• (Transcript, page 151)The Case of the Fifth Word
• The Magic Brush of Dreams
• (Transcript, page 152)The Magic Brush of Dreams
• Spectacular Wonders
• (Transcript, page 153)Spectacular Wonders