Narrator:- Our school had a odd assortment of boys, but the oddest boy in the school was Bodh Raj, Everyone was afraid of him. If he pinched anyone's arm, the arm would swell up as if from snakebite. He was Utterly Callous. He would catch a wasp with his bare fingers or else, stick a pin through it and pin it in his notebook. Even his mother called him a "Rakshasa"
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Hmmm....
My Father was given a promotion in his job and we moved into a large bungalow. It was old-style bungalow on the outskirts of the city. It had brick floors, High walls, a slanting roof and a garden full of trees and shrubs. Though comfortable, it seemed rather empty and big, and being far from the city, my friends seldom came to visit me.
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"Look! This is a Ganga Mynah!"
There was a big room were my mother stored the extra luggage. This room had become a haunt of pigeons. You could hear them cooing all day. Near the broken glass of the ventilator, there was a mynah's nest. the floor of the room was littered with feathers, bird droppings, broken eggs and bots of straw from the nests.
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My mother did not approve of my friendship with Bodh Raj, but she realized that I was lonely and needed company. One Day, my mother said to me, "If your friend is so found of destroying nests, tell him to clean our storeroom. The birds have mad it very filthy." I protested. "You said its cruel to destroy nest." " I didn't suggest he should kill the birds. He can remove the nest without harming them."
The next time Bodh Raj came, I took him to the godown. It was dark and smelly as we entered into the animals lair. I confess I was somewhat worries. What if, true to form, Bodh Raj destroyed the nests, pulled out the birds' feathers and broke their eggs? Bodh Raj brought his catapult. He studied the position of the nests under the roof. Near the ventilator, was a mynah's nest. I could see bits of wool and rag hanging out.
Bodh Raj Saved the Chicks from the kite which was going to eat them. When Bodh Raj came the next day, he has neither the catapult nor pebbles. He carried a bag of seeds. We fed the mynah's young and spent hours watching their antics.