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The fog comes
On little cat feet.
It sits looking
Over harbour and city
On silent haunches
and then moves on.
One of the employees, who was a postman and also helped at the post office, went to his boss laughing heartily and showed him the letter to God. Never in his career as a postman had he known that address. The postmaster -- a fat, amiable fellow -- also broke out laughing, but almost immediately he turned serious and, tapping the letter on his desk, commented, “What faith! I wish I had the faith of the man who wrote this letter. Starting up a correspondence with God!”
We went for a walk in the country. We went to see an exhibition in the town. We saw a temple surrounded by thick mango trees. It was held in a green park. The park was surrounded by beautiful shops. Light and song filled the whole atmosphere. The chirping of birds filled the air. At a distance, men and women were walking in the fields. They were crowding the stalls. Small children were playing under the trees. They were sitting on the merry-go-round. Some women were at a well drawing water. Some boys and girls were looking at a small open circus. All was green and peaceful; all was bright and gay

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The bulk of our population is poor and illiterate. Their sorry condition poses a problem. On the one hand, there is a shortage of teachers for adult education and, on the other, the adults feel shy of starting to learn at a late age and attend classes like children. Moreover, the adult villagers have little time to spare for attending classes. The job of a farmer is very strenuous and he needs ample rest and relaxation. In addition, he finds that what is taught at adult centres of education has no bearing on his daily needs and therefore he has become cynical about adult education. It is necessary to make adult education in villages agriculture-oriented so as to make it more meaningful for the farmer. In towns and cities also, adult education needs to be made work-based. It should comprise types of system in which earning and learning go together side by side. Efforts should be made to discourage the tendency of the village folk to migrate to the towns.
The true Chameleon is small,
A lizard sort of thing
He hasn't any ears at all
And not a single wing
If there is nothing on the tree,
'Tis the chameleon you see.
So, in order not to shake the writer's faith in God, the postmaster came up with an idea: answer the letter. But when he opened it, it was evident that to answer it, he needed something more than goodwill, ink and paper. But he stuck to his resolution: he asked for money from his employees, he himself gave part of his salary, and several friends of his were obliged to give something for act of charity.
Akbar was a boy of thirteen when he became the king of Delhi. At the time when Akbar was born, Humayun, his father, was a wanderer in Sindh because he had been defeated by Sher Shah. When Akbar was only one year old, he was taken away from his parents and was brought up in Persia by Bairam Khan. Akbar came back to India with Humayun. Soon, his father died. Even as a young man Akbar looked like a king. He was about 5 feet 7 inches tall and had a strong body, a broad chest and long arms. He liked riding and spent a lot of time on horseback.

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The modern world is a world of gross materialism. Money is the pivot on which the present world seems to turn. The Western world, more than the Eastern world, is completely in the clutches of these money-making tendencies. The money thus made is put to a variety of uses — good, bad and indifferent. Even a casual observation of the working of the world reveals the fact that the abuse of money is the rule, and the right use of money, the exception.
Human nature is fundamentally selfish. As such, it is no wonder that money earned is in the majority of cases wrongly used. The right use of money consists in spending it for universal good, for the greatest good of the greatest number, in addition to meeting one's personal and family requirements.
Now
He senses first responsibility
In a world of possessions. People will take
Balls, balls will be lost always, little boy.
Coorg or Kodagu, the smallest district of Karnataka, is home to evergreen rainforests, spices and coffee plantations. Evergreen rainforests cover thirty percent of this district. During the monsoons, it pours enough to keep many visitors away. The season of joy commences from September and continues till March.
In the olden days in England, the laws were very cruel. A man could be hanged for a very small offence. The Sheriffs who were the keepers of the law. were ignorant men and would hang a man on little or no evidence. Often when a man feared some punishment from the Sheriff, he would run away to the forest. In the forest he would join the company of other men who had come there like him. Such men were called 'outlaws'. They made their living by hunting deer or by robbing travellers on the highways.

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Florence Nightingale was born in Florence in Italy on May 12, 1820. Her parents named her after the name of the city where she was born. Her sole ambition in life was to be a nurse and so she gave up all thoughts of marriage and personal happiness. She spent years visiting hospital after hospital. Day and night she visited every bed in the hospital to see that no patient was neglected and that all were as comfortable as possible. However hard she might have worked all day, every night she would take her lamp and move from bed to bed. "The lady with the lamp," the soldiers called her and that is the name by which the world has remembered her ever since.
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
It was nothing less than a letter to God.
“God,” he wrote, “If you don't help me, my family and I will go hungry this year. I need a hundred pesos in order to sow my field again and to live until the crop comes, because the hailstorm...”
Robert Bruce was the king of Scotland. He fought hard to free his country from the English, but was badly defeated. He hid himself in the mountains. One day, when hiding in a cave he felt very downhearted. He made up his mind to give up the struggle. Then he saw a spider trying to swing itself up on a long thread to the roof of the cave. It tried and tried, but always fell short. Bruce watched the little insect's effort. At the ninth attempt it succeeded. "Bravo!" cried Bruce. "Surely I can go on trying like the spider. I will try again. I will try again." And he did succeed and made his country free.

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Robin Hood was the leader of the company of outlaws who lived in Sherwood forest. His name was a terror to rich travellers, but he was loved by the poor, whom he saved from cruel landlords and often helped with money. The Sheriff of the nearby town was his bitter enemy. After many attempts to catch Robin Hood, the sheriff one day declared in the hearing of many people, “I am willing to give half of my wealth to anyone who will help me to catch Robin Hood.”
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbour and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
He wandered for seven years and finally sat down under a peepal tree, where he vowed to stay until enlightenment came. Enlightened after seven days, he renamed the tree, the Bodhi Tree (Tree of Wisdom) and began to teach and to share his new understandings.
When we enter New York harbour, the first thing we see is the Statue of Liberty. What impresses us most is its size and magnificence. Have you ever wondered how it came to be there? The Statue of Liberty was a gift from the people of France to mark the one hundred year anniversary of American Independence. In 1869, sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi began to plan his concept for the monument. Bartholdi envisioned Liberty as a strong and proud figure, one who personified not only the majestic Greek goddesses of the past, but also the working men and women of the present. Finally in 1884, the work was finished.
Describe the most important character of the chapter "A Triumph of Surgery" — Tricki, in detail.
Who was Nelson Mandela? What ideals did he set out for the future of South Africa in his inauguration speech?