THE LOST CHILD
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- A child goes to a fair with his parents. He is happy and excited and wants the sweets and toys displayed there. But his parents don't buy them for him. Why then does he refuse when someone else offers them to him ?
- THE LOST CHILD
- The child followed them in the air with his gaze, till one of them would still its wings and rest, and he would try to catch it. But he would fluttering, flapping, up into the air. When he had almost caught it in his hands, his mother gave a cautionary call
- His father looked at him red-eyed, in his familiar tyrant's way. His mother, melted by the free spirit of the day was tender and, giving him her finger to hold, said, "look, child, what is before you!"
- I want that toys and sweets
- It was a flowering mustard-field, pale like melting gold as it swept across miles and miles of even land. A group of dragon-flies were bustling about on their gaudy purple wings, intercepting the flight of a lone black bee or butterfly in search of sweetness from the flowers.
- He ran towards his parents gaily and walked abreast of them for a while, being, however, soon left behind, attracted by the little insects and worms along the footpath that were teeming out from their hiding places to enjoy the sunshine.
- They called the child, who had now gone running in wild capers round the banyan tree, and gathering him up they took the narrow, winding footpath which led to the fair trough the mustard fields
- Come, child, come!
- Come, child, come!
- A shower of young flowers fell upon the child as he entered the grove, and, forgetting his parents, he began to gather the raining petals in his hands. But lo! he heard the cooling of doves and towards his parents, shouting, "The dove! The dove!" The raining petals dropped from his forgotten hands.
- As they neared the village the child could see many other footpaths full of throngs, converging to the whirlpool of the fair, and felt at once repelled and fascinated by the confusion of the world he was entering
- The dove! The dove!
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