1 The old banyan tree “did not belong” to
grandfather, but only to the boy, because
The grandfather at sixty-five could no longer climb it.
2 The small gray squirrel became friendly when he found that the boy did not arm himself with catapult or air-gun.
3 When the boy started to bring him pieces of cake and biscuit, the squirrel grew quite bold and was soon taking morsels from the author’s hand
4 In the spring, the banyan tree was full of small red figs, and birds of all kind would come there.
5 The banyan tree served the boy as a library.
6 The young boy spent his afternoons in the tree when it was not too hot.