Blue Bead Flashcards
Where did the crocodile come from?
From deep water
The color of the water?
Black
The water was curved with?
Whirlpools
The color of the shallows?
Frill Gold; Also as Glassy in later description.
Croc’s size?
Twice the size of a tall man.
What was being floated, from where and on what river?
Timber; Forests further up; Great Indian River.
Croc balanced in a ___ and where?
Tip toe in rippled sand among logs
Where were sleepers lying stuck and till when?
Around the stones. Till someone came to dislodge or floods jostled them.
The sand were
Rippled
What did the crocodile swallow to aid digestion?
Stones along with Silver Bracelet
The Gujars were from the ______ age
Wandering Pastoral age
both Gujars and Sibia were
Junglis
The Gujars did 2 businesses. They are
Sold White butter and Butter white milk; Sold Young male buffalos for tiger-bait.
The gujars were not of which two ages?
Stone age hunters, cultivators
the river was ________ between the _____
Twinking. trees
Which were the part of the crocodile that was only raised above the water?
Eyes and Nostrils
The crocodile was breathing
the clean sunny air.
The water around the crocodile was and came from?
sparkling water; travelled between cliffs and grass and forested hills.
how was the river beyond the trunks
sunlit
how was the trunks
dark
Where did the jungle track come from?
Out of scrub each side and down to the stepping stones
How was the stepping stones?
Sun-whitened.
what did the women make for ?
stepping stones
what two words would u use to describe what the women were doing while crossing the river
laughing and bickering
how was the crowd of women crossing the river in terms of sound?
noisy
what did the women do with their skirts while crossing the river and why
Girded the skirts to jump from stone to stone
what did the women clank over their shoulders and why
sickles and forks to have ease of movement
what did they shout and where
the shouted their quarrels above the gush of the river
why did they shout
to frighten crocodiles
for what purpose did the women go
to get paper grass
to get the paper grass what did they have to climb
still hillside
how was the river from above and how was it pouring and from where was it pouring
broad; powerfully; deep narrow pools
What was flirting and trilling along and where?
Little flycatcher on the stepping stones.
The mugger crocodile was ___ below
Yellowy White
The mugger crocodile was _____ above.
Blackish brown Above.
Crocodile has an ability to wait till
Forever till food came.
Another names for the crocodile?
Ante-diluvian Sauiran; Pre-Historic Juggernaut;
Crocodile in general was ____ and ______ (alliteration in these 2 words)
Ferocious and Formidable
The croc was a ____ force in the water
vast
How was the croc’s body part by which it it propelled?
Huge Tail; It had irresistible power
The crocodile lay lapped by?
Ripples
There was a __ in his throat.
Throb.
Croc’s mouth was running ____ of his head.
Was it open or close?
Whole length and was closed.
His skin was now described as an and which can’t penetrate through it and would bounce off?
Inch thick armored hide. Rifle Bullets.
In the smile, ___ underside came up to it and it was tinged with ______
Yellow underside; Green;
where was the deep narrow pool, where was the river spreading
among cold cliffs and shadows; spreading into warm shallows
what lit the river
kingfishers
name 3 animals living in the river
crocodiles, mahseer, Great turtles
how much did the mahseers weigh
more than a 100 pounds
on what can we sometimes see the crocodile lay on and were they laying on it while the women were crossing the river
slabs of clay; no
When did the crocodile hatch?
A day hundred years ago.
What had hatched the crocodile and where?
The sun; In a sandbank;
The crocodile broke his __ while he was hatching.
Shell.
The crocodile was ready to ___ before he was even fully hatched.
snap at anything.
When the croc was ready to fend for himself, he he lived by his
brainless craft and ferocity.
The crocodile escaped ____ and _______.
The birds of prey; The carnivores fishes that will eat baby crocodiles.
He stored the food till it ___ in the hole in the bank.
Putrid.
_____ and _____ grew him to this great length.
Tepid water and Plenty of rotted food.
Via where does the wind come to cool Sibia’s sweat
hundreds of miles of trees
she could look down on the river as if she were a ?
bird
what did Sibia not dare to do
stop for a moment under her mom’s eye
where did Sibia’s imagination take her and over what and when
it took her to the river banks; over bright water and golden air ; when she had played as a child there
The “points which offered a place” where?
Eyes and Soft Underarms.
He lived in the river, ____ himself with other crocs
Sunning
The 2 types of crocodile- and what does the 2nd type eat and looks like?
Muggers and Long-Snouted Gharials which eats fish.
Where were the crocs sunning themselves?
Warm Rocks and Sand Banks -> Sun had dried the clay on them white.
What could do they do if they are alarmed while they are sunning?
Plop off in a moment.
The big crocodile fed on ? (the list excluding the things at the ford)
Mostly fish, Deer and Monkey (that came to drink water), duck or two.
Where were the cavelets ?
above the high water mark of the highest flood
what had Sibia stored in the cavelets and why
little bowls of moulded clay ; in order for them to harden
what were the bowls painted with and when they would look fine
painted with marigolds and elephants; if they r used for colouring
what word did her mom use to call her?
Child
how was her mother’s face
angry and sweating
when other loaded women crossed the river why did Sibia hang back? what will she do for a bit before going home
to see if the cups were still in the cave waiting to be painted ; dawdle
The big croc fed on (at the ford)
pi-dog full of parasites’ or a skeleton cow.
The big croc fed on (at the burning ghats)
Hald-Burned bodies of Indians cast into the stream.
Where was the blue “gem” glimmering?
Besides him in the _______
Besides him in the shoals.
It was not a germ but a _____ glass. ____ Right through.
Sand-Worn; Perforated;
It has been _____ in the river for a long time.
Rolling
