SAMACHEER - 9 STD - ENGLISH - THE THEIF

1. THE
THIEF
Class 9 Term-III Supplementary Reader

2. 2
Yarmuk – one of the top thieves of the solar system
Malkin – Yarmuk’s friend
Newly married couple
Wandering patrol boat
Space Craft MIG-31
Two grey – Clad men
CHARACTERS

3. Yarmuk meets one of his old friends Malkin
who informs about Planet-X, inviting him to
have drinks and meal.

4. Mixing a tranquillizer,
Yarmuk obtains the
address of the man who
knows the co-ordinates of
Planet X.

5. The next night, Yarmuk drives over to the address
he has got from Malkin.

6. Using a gas-gun
to sedate the
occupants of the
house, he uses a
hallucinogen to
get the
information
from the head of
the house about
Planet-X.

7. He searches for a suitable spacecraft by visiting
some dealers and picking up their catalogues.
At last, he decides to handle an MIG-31.

8. Roaming the local Space-Port on the third
day, Yarmuk sees a well dressed young
couple, who come by MIG-31 to a hotel for
their Honeymoon.

9. So, Yarmuk also checks in
into the same hotel late that
night. And then, he breaks
into the Couple’s suite to
capture space-port parking
lot pass, electronic card, and
hyper-wave Radio key.

10. As soon as he gets all his needs, he
immediately checks out by explaining to the
clerk that he has to hurry due to his wife’s
serious illness.

11. Taking a heli-taxi to the spaceport, he enters the
parking area with the things he has stolen from
the couple.
Using his wife’s illness as an excuse again, he gets
immediate permission to blast off with MIG-31.

12. Wandering patrol boat challenges him. He identifies his
ship successfully but fumbles when asked for pilot’s
personal particulars.
He is ordered to return to the spaceport for an investigation.

13. Near a planetary mass causes him blackout temporarily
and gives the ship an awful jerk.
Regaining consciousness, he finds himself in the Planet-X.
The Planet X

14. Landing at planetary capital space port, he pays entry fees
and gets a taxi to a hotel.
For two days he roams the capital city and finds the people extremely
disciplined and honest, no policemen, no guards or watchmen.

15. Most of the stores and shops
do not have any salesmen or
assistants or cashiers either.
People walk in, pick up the
items of their choice, punch
out required code on the
computer and put in credit
cards.

16. Yarmuk picks up a pair
of socks and pretends
to, absent mindedly,
forget to punch the
computer but nothing
happens.
He has located three posh
jewellery shops in the main
market. They have no attendant
or assistant.

17. He walks into one, fills a suitcase with the choicest
pieces. Within ten minutes suitcase is full, worth 50
million credits.

18. He checks out the hotel to get
taxi, asking the driver to wait
while he collects his luggage
prior to proceeding to the
space-port.
Two grey-clad men from National
Guard come out from behind a
pillar, one holds a sten-gun while
the other snaps hand-cuffs.

19. Planet-X is a world of
Telepathists, Mind readers and
clairvoyants.
Yarmuk could only stammer and
gets 10 years imprisonment in the
alien’s jail.

20. deftly - skillfully
tranquillizer - a drug used to make person drowsy
caliber - superior quality
sedate - cause to be quiet
hallucinogen - psycho active drug
superimposed - lay over on something
suite - apartment
stratosphere - the atmospheric layer
hyperspace - an imagined space
chortled - laugh quietly
reconnoitered - exploring, lingering
sauntered - wandering
20
Look up the dictionary and find the meanings for the following
words.
Project: Why Pluto is not considered as a planet? Discuss
and present.