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S A I I N T E R N A T I O N A L S C H O O L
SAI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
CLASS-X, ENGLISH
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• The author of the story is Gavin Maxwelll. In this
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PLOT decided to keep an otter. Here he is takingg us
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from Iraq to London and via a flight.
THE ENTRY • When Maxwell's dog Jonnie died, he was too sad to
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think of keeping a dog again. So he decided to keep
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his friend who managed to get an otter andd sent it
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OTTER to Maxwell through two Arabs. Thus, Maxwelll got
his tamed otter.
• Mijbil, the narrator's otter belonged to an unknown
MIJBIL race of otters that was later christened by zoologists s
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as Lutrogale Perspicillata Maxwelli. As it was
Maxwell's pet, it was named as Maxwell's otterr.
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