Read thestory and find the sentences where Maxwell describes his pet otter.Then choose and arrange your sentences to illustrate those statementsbelow that you think are true.

Maxwell’sdescription

(i) makesMij seem almost human, like a small boy.

(ii) showsthat he is often irritated with what Mij does.

(iii) showsthat he is often surprised by what Mij does.

(iv) ofMij’s antics is comical.

(v) showsthat he observes the antics of Mij very carefully.

(vi) showsthat he thinks Mij is a very ordinary otter.

(vii) showsthat he thinks the otter is very unusual.

(i)Hespent most of his time in play.

(iii)Iwatched, amazed; in less than a minute he had turned the tap farenough to produce a trickle of water, and after a moment or twoachieved the full flow.

(v)Asuitcase that I had taken to Iraq had become damaged on the journeyhome, so that the lid, when closed, remained at a slope from one endto the other. Mij discovered that if he placed the ball on the highend it would run down the length of the suitcase. He would dasharound to the other end to ambush its arrival, hide from it,crouching, to spring up and take it by surprise, grab it and trot offwith it to the high end once more.

(vii)Itis not, I suppose, in any way strange that the average Londonershould not recognize an otter, but the variety of guesses as to whatkind of animal this might be came as a surprise to me. Mij wasanything but an otter.

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