Salma

                    There was a girl  named Salma. She lived with her parents in a small house. Her brother’s name was Saleem. Salma used to call her brother Sallu.

          Salma used to get up early each morning. After getting ready she would go to her school. After returning from school and having lunch she used to take rest. In the evening all her friends would come to her home.

     Raju,deenu,sheela,Paro and Maku. And then they would play games. All  children enjoyed this a lot.

        In summer their schools closed for vaccation. Now these children started getting bored. They did’nt know how to spend their long vacation. To them,their homes felt like jails. Their parents were not allowing them to go out during the day time because of the warm winds. They were allowed to play only in evenings.

        One day Salma’s maternal aunt came to live with her for a few days. She was a teacher in a school. Children again started enjoying their vacation because of her. They always gathered around Salma’s aunt. Some children wanted to hear fairy tails. Others choice was to hear ghost stories. Some wanted to play outdoor games with her. Children enjoyed a lot for ten days. Their most demanding activity was to hear ghost stories from aunt.

         On Sunday Salma’s aunt took them to an exhibition. They enjoyed the exhibition a lot. Some boys and girls purchased clay toys, some purchased musical toys, and some brought only sweets and ice-creams. But salma’s nature was different from other friends. She was not interested in toys or candy. She wanted to spend her money on some thing different and useful. Suddenly her eyes got fixed on a book shop. And she went there. She selected some picture story books and purchased four of them.

       When Salma returned to her aunt she laughed and asked her, “What will you do with these books?”

                “ O, these books…..I will read these stories after you go back to your village.” Aunty laughed again.

                 After some days Salma’s aunty went back to her village. Salma and her friends again started getting bored. They wondered how they would spend their vacations, kill their time.

       Raju said, “come on we will play…”

“Hm…..that we do daily.” Paro wade a face. Maiku suggested to revise their school work.

“No..no…summer vacations are meant for enjoying not for studying.” Sheela cried.

   “Then what else can we do now?” someone asked restlessly.

   Suddenly Salma remembered the story books which she had purchased from that exhibition.

“listen, I have an idea. I have some story books.” Salma rejoiced.

   “hm…so what are we going to do with those books.” Maiku asked.

     To this Salma said, “Someone will read the stories and all of us will listen. This will be a great time pass and we will gain knowledge too.”

 Everybody agreed to this suggation.

          Next day onwards, all friends would gather at Salma’s place in the afternoon. There they would enjoy the stories and snacks, thereby having a great time.

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Hemant Kumar

       

       

Sugar candy

Cockroach,Cricket,fly and little Ant were best friends.Whole day they enjoyed and played in their homes.Their movement starts in the darkness of night.One dark night they moved from their homes.

      At first Cockroach reached in the kitchen.Then Cricket came.Both were in search of food.They were thinking about the place where they could get food.In the mean time fly also joined them.They started their discussion.

             “ Friends, on which way we can go today?” cockroach asked.

             “ On that way.”Cricket answered.

             “Oh no, there are only potatoes.I don’t like potato.I want any sweet dish today.”cockroach told them.

            “O.K. then we can go behind that almeerah.”Cricket suggested them.

And all three moved in that direction.They saw the sweet sugar candy kept  there.They were going on the way suddenly two big ants blocked there way.Cricket was afraid.But Cockroach and fly were normal.They decided to face the problem.

           “Please,don’t bite us.We will give you sweet sugar candies.Cockroach tried to brive them.

             “sugar candy---?where is it---?”Both ants cried with curiosity.

             “There ---behind  almeerah-----“ cockroach replied.

             All four of them started moving together.Cockroach was ahead and others were following him.Suddenly Cockroach stopped.His moustaches were shaking.

   “What happened?”ants enquired.The Cockroach replied,”there is danger ahead….a cobweb.”

 The Ants again cried,”now what?How will we get our sugar candies?”

To this the Cricket replied,”apply your brains.Think of a solution.”

Ants suggested that they could jump over the web.

“o…no ..fools if you will try ..surely you will get stuck in the web.”Cockroach told with anger.

                Every body started thinking.The Ants tried to think while rubbing their feet to the ground.The cricket was getting impatient and was continuosly flapping its wings while thinking a solution.Cockroach’s moustaches started shaking.

        Suddenly,cricket saw a broken broom.”Every body follow me..”he shouted with excitement.

         Now all four of them were busy pulling out a stick from the broom.“come on”,”yes pull it tightly”….”little more strength and we will be done.”All were shouting.

   After a while the stick was in their hands.They moved with that stick towards the web.And tried to pull the web down.After two attempts they succeeded in pulling it down.

The spider got scared thinking that there was any earthquake. And she escaped to a hole.

        Now they were all by themselves. All four of them jumped together to grab the candy.

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Hemant Kumar

           

 

           

FRIENDS

A big old tamarind tree stood at the outskirts of a village. Its branches were so thick that nobody could climb it. This tree was the house of many small and beautiful birds. Many birds like parrot, pigeon, cuckoo, magpie, golden bird lived on this tree. All the birds were good friends. They always played together, sang together, and made sweet music.

   

      One fine sunny morning all these birds were playing and singing. Suddenly, a woodpecker came and sat on a nearby tree and watched the birds play and dance together. Those birds hardly noticed him. After a few minutes, he went to them and requested, “ Friends, I am alone in this world. I have no home. Can you give me shelter? Can I also be your friend?”

       All birds stopped their game and gathered near the woodpecker. The crow said in his rough voice, “ get lost….we don’t have any place for dirty and ugly fellows.”

       “We don’t need your friendship”, Hari parrot shouted. Ultimately the woodpecker went away from there. He was really upset with their rude behavior.

         Next morning all the birds went in search of their food. At the same time, a wicked hunter came there. He carefully observed the huge tree and thought, “ Wow!! I think many birds must be living here. This tree can surely bring me some profit.”

         He thought for a few minutes and then threw his net on the whole tree and hid in the nearby bushes.

          In the evening, all the birds returned to their homes. As they started sitting on the branches, they all got trapped in the net. The wicked hunter was very happy. He folded his net and went away. At home, he shifted the poor birds in a wooden box and said, “Sweet friends, sleep here till morning. And then I will sell all of you to your new masters.” And after locking the box, he went to sleep.

        All birds started crying and weeping. Hari parrot tried to console them. But none of them listened. At last, he shouted, “Don’t weep friends. Lets try to face this problem with courage.” All the birds nodded. They started discussing the ways through which they could escape.

       Suddenly, they heard a knocking sound on the wooden box. They stopped murmuring and listened. The sound grew louder and louder. Hari parrot asked, “who is there?”

        But there was no reply. And the knocking continued. They got scared.

         Suddenly they saw a very big hole in the wall of the box. And a face appeared there. It was the face of the poor woodpecker. He whispered “Don’t be afraid…I am your friend. I have come to save your lives. I have made a hole in the wall of this box. Now you can come out one by one.”

         All the birds came out safely. They started going out through the open window. The woodpecker said to them, “ ok friends…bye bye.”

        Hari parrot told him,” why bye???? you will also come with us. We were wrong. You saved our lives. Now you will live with us because you are our dear friend.”

        And all the birds flew with the woodpecker as the open sky was inviting them to fly with their new friend.

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Hemant kumar

Vegitarian Lion

                           

                        Gabaroo lion was too old.His mouth was totally teethless.So he was unable to eat any thing.Feets were so week that he could not walk. His whole body was going weak to weaker day by day. So he was always feeling sad. He was always thinking what I will eat? How will I survive?

                           One day he called a meeting of all animals of jungle. He showed his teeth less mouth and jaws and told, “Friends, as you are seeing  I am unable to eat any hard food. So please bring any soft food for me that I can eat without teeth.”

                        All animals replied, “Yes Lord, we will bring some thing soon.” and all returned to their homes.All started thinking,started discussions.What we should give to Gabaroo lion?What type of food would he like?

                         Next day dog brought bread(Chapaties) for lion.Lion became very happy.But breads were too hard.Liondid not succeed in eating breads. 

                                                 In noon horse came with fresh and green grass.Lion smelled and told with unhappy face, “hmmm.. grass is not my food.How can I eat this?”

                         In eveaning Puccy cat brought a pot full of sweet milk.Lion tested milk, but did,nt like it.

                         Two days passed.But Gabaroo lion did’nt like any food.A small squrrel came with Almonds and Chestnuts.Lion was very happy to see that.But alas…..he could not eat Almonds os Chestnuts.

                         Gabaroo roared with anger.All animals gathered on the spot with fear. Lion shouted, “You all are not taking care of your king ? Have you forgotten me?You want to die me of hunger?”

                          “Lord ! we will solve your problem very soon.”Animals tried to convince him.

                     “O Dear monkey, you always traveled in human’s colonies.Search some thing from there.”Gabaroo lion shouted to monkey.

                                  ”Yes, lord king,I promise to bring some thing for you till evening.”told monkey.And he went through thin branches of tree.All animals thought,let us see monkey will provide what type of food to Gabaroo?

                              In evening lion lion was sitting in front of his cave/dane.His condition was very bad due to hunger.Suddunely monkey jumped from tree. He had a bunch of yellow bananas in his hands. Banana’s sweet smell provoked lion’s hunger. Monkey peel a Banana and feed that to Gabaroo’s teethless mouth.Monkey peeled Bananas one by one and fed him all. At last his hunger was subsided.He roared again with joy and happyness.All animals gathered there again.

                “My dear friend,you bring this sweet fruit daily and feed me….”told Gabaroo lion to monkey.

                            And from that time monkey brings daily big bunch of banana for him.And Gabaroo lion also very happy.One more thing ---from that time monkies also traveleing in human’s colonies in search of any new food items for their king Gabaroo.

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Hemant Kumar

           

                         

Search of Home

                                     The  most  beautiful  home in jungle was Chunmun rabbit’s home.Chunmun was so cute.And his house was also cute like him.

                             One day an elephant named Ramu passed by his house.He saw Chunmun’s house and thought---it,s so nice and airy.I should have a home like this.

                Immediately he called Chunmun and told him,“ from today, this beautiful airy house is mine and I will live here .”

             “What? In my house? But it’s to small.”rabit replied with fear.

          Ramu elephant looked at the house thoughtfully.First from left and then from right side to.“o,yes it’s too small for me.”He said to Chunmun rabit and walked away to look for other house.

         Ramu went to the ant’s colony.He tried to peep in their small houses.Ants  explained him,“your body is too  big.So try to search big house.

        Elephant walked towards the hill. Jackale’s cave looked really big. He walked around the cave.But he did,nt find it very comfortable. All the jackals told him,“Brother Ramu you are too fat and big.So please search a big very big house.”

            Ramu elephant get angry.and went away.Now ramu was standing under a Tamarind tree.A weaverbird peeped out from her nest and requested,“O big brother,please don’t disturb us. Because we are tired and are resting.”

          “Hummm…… no one wants to give me his house.Where will I live?” Ramu elephant cried in anger.He walked away in the fields.

            He saw some rats playing out side their home. “o,no….no…. I can not  live here. It’s a dirty place.” He thought and went ahead.

      Now ramu thought,“Wow…..Lion is my best friend.And his home is big also.Why  did’nt I think of this before?”

      He went to the Lion’s cave.the cave was impty.He thought,“nice!it’s a good time.”He entered quickly in the cave.

     But it was his bad luck.His back crushed in the cave’s roof.He got stuck there.Nither could he go forward nor could he move back. He tried again and again.

               Ultimately he was thrown out by his own force.He stood under a tree and took a deep breath.

                “O god…!I was wrong.I am too big and fat.So I can not fit any body’s house.My home is an open field. The whole Jungle,hills and ….open fields. I can go and live any where.”Ramu elephant told him self.And he moved towards the river for a bath.

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Hemant Kumar