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08: The Blue Bead by Norah Burke

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    Under what conditions did Sibia work? What did she keep in the cave?
    Ans : Sibia was a hard worker. She worked nonstop under her mother's vigilance but her imagination sore high over the bright water and golden air to the banks where she had played as a child. She had stored some little bowls, moulded of clay while they hardened for painting. The only thing that cooled her sweating body was wind coming across the hundreds of miles of trees.