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Read these lines: "Are all these tales such cobwebs and moontalk?" said the boy. "That tiger limps because he was born lame, as everyone knows. To talk of the soul of a money-lender in a beast that never had the courage of a jackal is child's talk." What is his objection to the hunter's account?
AA hunter should never speak of his kills
BA money-lender could not have been wicked
CA plain cause already explains the limp
DA tiger cannot limp on a lame front foot
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. A plain cause already explains the limp
1. 1. The hunter explains the limp by a dead money-lender's soul living in the tiger.
2. 2. The boy answers with a simpler cause that needs no ghost: the tiger was born lame.
3. 3. He adds that the beast lacks even a jackal's courage, so the grand explanation does not suit the animal.
4. 4. He objects to the explanation, not to hunters talking, and he never defends the money-lender's character.
_Source: The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (1894)_
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