Class 10 English - First Flight - Chapter A Letter to God NCERT Solutions | What made him angry?
What made him angry?
The difference in amount made him angry. After finishing counting the money, he found only seventy pesos in it. But the demand is a hundred pesos. He was confident that God could neither make a mistake nor refuse him what he had requested. So,he was definitely sure that the remaining thirty pesos were taken by the employees of the post office.
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