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2023-12-06THE SAILOR THE boat of the boatman Madhu is moored at the wharf of Rajgunj. It is uselessly laden with jute, and has been lying there idle for ever so...
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2023-12-06THE FURTHER BANK I LONG to go over there to the further bank of the river, Where those boats are tied to the bamboo poles in a line; Where men cross o...
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2023-12-06THE FLOWER-SCHOOL WHEN storm clouds rumble in the sky and June showers come down, The moist east wind comes marching over the heath to blow its bagpip...
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2023-12-06THE MERCHANT IMAGINE, mother, that you are to stay at home and I am to travel into strange lands. Imagine that my boat is ready at the landing fully l...
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2023-12-06SYMPATHY IF I were only a little puppy, not your baby, mother dear, would you say "No" to me if I tried to eat from your dish? Would you dri...
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2023-12-06VOCATION WHEN the gong sounds ten in the morning and I walk to school by our lane, Every day I meet the hawker crying, "Bangles, crystal bangles!...
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2023-12-06SUPERIOR MOTHER, your baby is silly! She is so absurdly childish! She does not know the difference between the lights in the streets and the stars. Wh...
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2023-12-06THE LITTLE BIG MAN I AM small because I am a little child. I shall be big when I am as old as my father is. My teacher will come and say, "It is ...
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2023-12-06TWELVE O'CLOCK MOTHER, I do want to leave off my lessons now. I have been at my book all the morning. You say it is only twelve o'clock. Suppo...
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2023-12-06AUTHORSHIP YOU say that father writes a lot of books, but what he writes I don't understand. He was reading to you all the evening, but could you ...