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1154 4@@@- © 464 a, , QO @ successcds.net/cce-cbse/class-xi (3) :, , @, , thought. “There must be people nearby”. He, summoned all his strength, got up, and staggered in, , the direction of the sound., , Gloom: dark, , Despair: hopelessness, , Thumping: the sound of some heavy object beating, Summoned: gathered, , Stagger: To walk with difficulty, , As it was the month of December, it got dark early., As it got dark, his hope of escaping the forest, reduced. The danger to his life increased and so did, his feeling of being hopeless. There was no way left, for him. So, he sat on the ground and was so tired, , and terrified that he thought this was his last, moment and soon he would die. As he laid his head, on the ground, he heard a very strong regular sound., It was a hard sound that was coming at the regular, intervals. He soon realized that these sounds were, the sounds of hammer strokes from an iron mill. He, thought that he could find some people nearby. With, this thought, he gathered some strength and started, walking with great difficulty, towards the direction of, , the sound., , The Ramsjo Ironworks, which are now closed down,, were, not so long ago, a large plant, with smelter,, rolling mill, and forge. In the summertime long lines, of heavily loaded barges and scows slid down the, canal, which led to a large inland lake, and in the, wintertime the roads near the mill were black from, , all the coal dust which sifted down from the big, , NN 30-Day Free Returns, x ») 3 BlueStone Jewellery Frazer Road, Patna