(a) What was there in the sack?

(a) What was there in the sack?

(b) What started for the author with the opening of the sack?
(c) How did the otter look like?
(d) How long did it take the author to remove the mud from the otter’s body?
(e) Find a word from the passage which means ‘came out’.
Answers: (a) There was an otter in the sack.

(b) With the opening of the sack, a phase of life started for the author.

(c) The otter looked like a very small medievally-conceived dragon.

(d) It took him a month to remove the mud from the otter’s body.

(e) ‘emerged’.