THE 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...
THE 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...
THE 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...
THE 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...
SYMPATHY 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...
VOCATION 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！...
SUPERIOR 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...
THE 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 ...
TWELVE 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...
AUTHORSHIP 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 ...