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One evening we ,my brother,his friends,our maid servant's daughter and me  were playing hide and seek, in the backyard of our house.Boys climbed the trees and one climbed the attic of the cow shed and we girls hid behind  the

heap of hey and inside the quarry, from where the stones were dug for the construction of the house. When we entered the quarry we heard a shrill kiyo

kiyo… voice of  chicks. .We looked every where    to find out

from where the sound comes from  .At last we saw a big hole, like a cave

in the wall of the trench. When we peeped into it we saw in dim light ,very young  egg like chicks with shining eyes, frightened ,clinging together.We took them out carefully.They were eleven in number,.By the time from a distance

the mother hen came running making a sound and looking at our face  demanding  her baby-chicks. We.We took the chicks and hen also inside the house

gave them a basket ,spread  hey inside and made it soft for the chicks  and kept it at the attic of our barn.

Hen got into the basket and sat spreading it’s feather and wings and kept all the chicks inside her wings.Only then mum and others knew that the hen laid eggs in that hole and hatched.

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On full moon days, we put two, or three mats in the courtyard in front of our house mum ,dad sisters brothers and me  sat on the mat and mum showed us the five stars named pancha pandavas,and the seven stars,

Saptharshis,and the most  glittering one Karthika. .When ever we sat in the moon light,she  repeated this.My brother and me ran around and played.

The whole world around us were immersed in the milky moon light and we could see the blue mountains,just below  the green hills ,just below the vast

green paddy fields fading out in the distance and the cool breeze carrying the fragrance of the wild flowers. All these  are still in my memory like a canvas painting.

On such a day, we  enjoyed the moon light , the breeze,  and the beauty of the surroundings and then went inside for dinner.After dinner mum the maid servant and her daughter started cutting vegetables and doing other household works  like washing plates ,making pickles ,polishing lamps  because there was a small function on the next day.My eldest sister and her husband were coming home to celebrate her birth day with us. Two or three times mum chased us to go to sleep,but we came back lingering around watching their work. Towards the late hours of the night we heard the sound of a motor car;from

a distance, coming nearer and nearer and  entering our boundary.We were expecting my sister and  husband so we peeped through the window.Then we

were so excited to see  a number of deer big  and small running  around and playing in the moon light in our court yard.with out making any sound mum woke up my elders and dad and we watched  the beautiful sight for a few minuets.They might have heard  the rustling sound of us moving, for a moment they looked towards the house ,then ran away and disappeared

In the forest.

There was a vegetable garden  in the back yard of our house and adjacent to

the vegetable garden there was avast land where tapioca

chorm,banana,cashew nuts and mango trees were grown.Once in a way

monkeys in battallion rushed into that area and with in seconds they will pull out tapioca and pluck banana,stuff it in their mouths and hands full and run

away into the forest.To pull out tapioca one of them will climb up and swing

to and fro like children swinging in a swing.By the time two or three of them would pull it upwards from the bottom. There is a stream running down

at our boundry..Monkeys always do everything in groups.A group of them jumped into the stream,swam,dived and took a bath.After bath they sat in the sun to dry their body;and  then plucked leaves of teak wood,put it in a flat stone

and smashed it up with another stone.,With both hands smeared the juice in their cheeks to get a pink colour,like our modern girls using roosh  in their cheeks.

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By the time of the second term exam I was the top in  class and the class teacher made me the  class.leader So also I was very active in extracurricular activities like painting ,playing badminton,ping-pong,giving speeches

In class meetings .During the x’mas vacation we went to Bharatheepuram.Life in the forest area was quite different and I enjoyed it with my brother.We my brother ,his friends and me went into the forest to see monkeys ,squirrels,rabbits , birds.and to pluck fruits like gua mango etc.

One day my dad brought home a baby monkey.During the winter season ,at times  forest  fire broke out,and the animals inside that area used to run away to save themselves .Monkeys while jumping from one branch to another to get out of the fire; to save the baby monkey;they used to threw them away out of burning area.Some how dad got a baby monkey ,which was thrown away.My brother and me were so excited to have a baby monkey and we spent most of the time nursing it .We managed to have a woollen wrapper ,a feeding bottle and a cradle for the baby monkey.First it was so scared of us and within a few days it started playing with us and came running as soon as it saw  the feeding bottle.

like a baby it was laid down in our laps to drink the milk.

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