Page 1 : Ans1:, , @ £EQAQ< :, , NCERT Solution, , Chapter-08 (Poem), Vocation, , (i) The speaker is a little child who goes to school. On his way to the school, he met a, , hawker, who cried “Bangles, crystal bangles!” When he returned from school, he, watched a gardener, who was digging the ground. When it got dark and his mother sent, him to bed, through his window he saw the watchman walking up and down., , (ii) The child in the poem wants to be a hawker, a gardener, and a watchman. When he, , (iii, , looks at the hawker, he wishes he could also spend his day on the road crying “Bangles,, crystal bangles!” He feels that there is nothing to hurry the hawker on. There is no road, he must take, no place he must go to, and no fixed time when he must come home. These, are the things that he cannot do himself and therefore, he wants to be a hawker so that, he could do all these things. Next, he wishes he was a gardener because a gardener does, what he likes with his spade. He soils his clothes with dust. Nobody scolds him if he gets, baked in the sun or gets wet. Therefore, if the little child was a gardener, nobody would, stop him from digging. Finally, he sees the watchman and wants to be like the, watchman so that he could walk through dark and lonely streets all night with his, lantern and chase shadows. When he is put to bed and is not allowed to roam outside,, he sees the watchman swinging his lantern with his shadow at his side and he feels that, the watchman never even once has to go to bed in his entire life. Therefore, he wants to, bea hawker, a gardener, and a watchman so that he could do all the things they did as, he could not do them being a child., , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , The Child Must The Child Must Not, , Come home at a fixed time Get his clothes dirty in the dust, , Go to bed when it got dark Get baked in the sun or get wet, , Go to school every day Walk on dark and lonely street at night