Saturday, March 8, 2014

Conversion of Indirect into Direct

Exercise 109.
Turn the following into Indirect Speech:-
1. “Cheer up, mother, I'll go and get work somewhere,” said Jack.
2. But the sea-god cried, “Do not be afraid, noble prince. I have taken pity on you and will help you.”
3. “No,” said the child; “I won't kneel, for if I do, I shall spoil my new breeches.”
4. “What a horse are they losing for want of skill and spirit to manage him!” exclaimed Alexander.
5. Telemachus replied, "How can I drive away the mother, who bore me and nourished me?"
6. “Call no man happy,” was the reply of the philosopher, “until he has ended his life in a fitting manner.”
7. Then said the wolf to the fox, “Now either yield thyself as vanquished, or else certainly I will kill thee.”
8. “I believe,” said he, “that we are in this country among a people whom we like and who like us.”
9. he said, “Take that bird away. Its gilded cage reminds me of my father whom I imprisoned.”
10. “I have just one word to say to you,” said the dealer. “Either make your purchase, or walk out of my shop.”
11. “My hour is come,” thought he. “Let me meet death like a man.”
12. “Be not cast down,” said Mentor, “remember whose son thou art, and all shall be well with thee.”
13. Bhishma said: “Boys! boys ! remember you play a game. If it be Arjuna's turn let him have it.”
14. “Friends,” said the old man, “sit down and rest yourselves here on this bench. My good wife Baucis has gone to see what you can have for supper.”
15. “Ah! you don't know what these beans are, said the man; if you plant them overnight, by morning they grow right up to the sky.”
16. “How clever I am !” he said. “All my life I have been talking prose without knowing it.”
17. “I am old and lonely,” said she. “Hast thou no pity on my lonelines? Stay with me, my best son, for thou art yet more boy than man.”
18. “I do not practice”, Goldsmith once said; "I make it a rule to prescribe only for my friends." "Pray, dear doctor," said Beauclerk, "alter your rule, and prescribe only for your enemies."
19. He said: "Who are you to speak to me like this? I am the master. Why should I help
you? It is your work, not mine, to draw the cart."
20. "I cannot hope to see these trees which I am planting come in perfection," said the
duke, "but it is right for me to plant for the benefit of my successors."
21. "Are you angry, my friends," said the king, "because you have lost your leader? I am
your king; I will be your leader."
22. Said an old Crab to young one, "Why do you walk so crooked, child? Walk straight!"
"Mother," said the young Crab, "show me the way, will you?"
23. "Who are you?" said the Deer. The Jackal replied: "I am Kshudrabuddhi the Jackal. I
live in this forest all by myself; I have neither friend nor relation."
24. One summer some elephants were very much distressed by the heat, and said to their
leader: "We are absolutely perishing, for want of water. The smaller animals have
bathing-places but we have none. What are we to do? Where are we to go?"
25. When the king saw him coming he said, "Pray who are you, and what do you want ?"
The Rabbit said, "I am an ambassador from His Majesty Chandra - the Moon." The
Elephant King replied, "Declare your errand."
26. A young Rajah once said to his Vizier, "How is it that I am so often ill? I take great
care of myself; I never go out in the rain; I wear warm clothes; I eat good food. Yet I am
always catching cold or getting fever."
27. "My sons," said he, "a great treasure lies hidden in the estate I am about to leave
you." "Where is it hid?" said the sons. "I am about to leave you." said the old man, "but
you must dig for it."
28. "How very well you speak French!" Lady Grizzel said. "I ought to know it," Becky
modestly said. "I taught it in a school, and my mother was a Frenchwoman."
29. "What are you going to do with the tinder-box?" asked the soldier. "That's no
business of yours," said the witch; "You've got your money; give me my tinder-box."
30. "My name is Noman," said Ulysses, "my kinsmen and friends in my own country call
me Noman." "Then," said the Cyclops, "this is the kindness I will show thee, Noman; I
will eat thee last of all thy friends."
31. "I am a dead man, Hardy," said Nelson; "I am going fast; it will be all over with me
soon. Come nearer to me. Let my dear Lady Hamilton have my hair, and all other things
belonging to me."
32. He said to the shoemaker: "You are a big blockhead; you have done the reverse of
what I desired you. I told you to make one of the shoes larger than the other, and, instead
of that, you have made one of them smaller than the other."
33. “I can extend no other mercy to you,” said the Raja, “except permitting you to choose
what kind of death you wish to die. Decide immediately, for the sentence must be carried
out.” “I admire your kindness, noble Prince,” said the jester, “I choose to die of old age.”
34. Her mother said, "You must go straight to your grandmother's cottage and not loiter
on the way. There is a wolf in the wood through which you are going; but if you keep to
the road he won't do you any harm/Now, will you be a good girl and do as I tell you ?"
35. Next morning at breakfast his wife said to him, "George, I think I can tell what is
amiss with our clock." "Well, what is it?" he sharply asked. "It wants winding up," said
his partner.
36. A fawn one day said to her mother, "Mother, you are bigger than a dog, and swifter
and better winded, and you have horns to defend yourself; how is it that you are so afraid
of the hounds?" She smiled and said, "All this, my child, I know fully well; but no sooner
do I hear a dog bark, than, somehow or other, my heels take me off as fast as they can
carry me."
37. Said a young mole to her mother, "Mother, I can see." So her mother put a lump of
frank incense before her, and asked her what it was. "A stone," said the young one. "O
my child !" said the mother, "not only do you not see, but you cannot even smell."
38. "What are you doing, good old woman ?" said the princess. "I'm spinning, my pretty
child." "Ah, how charming ! Let me try if I can spin also."
39. "You say," said the judge, "that the bag you lost contained one hundred and ten
pounds." "Yes, your honour," replied the miser. "Then as this one contains one hundred
pounds it cannot be yours."
40. He answered slowly, "Alas ! my dear son, why do you ask the one thing I cannot
grant you ? Your hands are too weak to rein those fiery beasts ; you do not know the path.
Come, ask something else, anything but that,"
41. The speaker said, "I entirely object to the proposal. I object to it as founded on a
wrong principle, and I object to it as highly inconvenient at this time. Have you
considered all that this proposal involves ? Gentlemen, I entreat you to be cautious."
42. Kausalya said to Rama, "Do not desire, O my child, to possess the moon, because it is
thousands of miles off, and it is not a plaything for children and no child ever got it. If
you wish I will bring some jewels that are brighter than the moon, and you can play with
them."
43. The hen bird was just about to lay, and she said to her mate: "Cannot you find me
some place convenient for laying my eggs?" "And is not this," he replied, "a very good
place for the purpose?" "No," she answered, "for it is continually overflowed by the tide."
"Am I, then, become so feeble," he exclaimed, "that the eggs laid in my house are to be
carried away by the sea ?" The hen bird laughed and said, "There is some considerable
difference between you and the sea."
44. A cat hearing that a hen was laid up sick in her nest, paid her a visit of condolence,
and creeping up to her, said: "How are you, my dear friend ? What can I do for you ?
What are you in want of ? Only tell me. Is there anything in the world that I can bring
you ? Keep up your spirits, and do not be alarmed." "Thank you," said the hen. "Do you
be good enough to leave me, and I have no fear but I shall soon be well."
45. "Sweet child," he answered, "do not fret, for I can make you happier here than ever
you could have been on the earth ; I will give you beautiful things to play with, which a
queen would envy. Rubies and diamonds shall be your toys, and your plates shall be of
solid gold. All the beautiful things you see, belong to me, for I am king of this rich
underworld." But she only replied, "I was happy playing with the pebbles on the
seashore, and I care only for the sparkle of the little waves on the shining sand. Here
there are no flowers, no sun," and she wept a new.



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