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Bhavan's Mehta Vidyalaya

Delhi
CHILDREN'S CONTRIBUTIONS

HOW TO AVOID RUNNING ERRANDS!

By Aakash Ravichandran (VI A)

My grandfather was thirteen years old and was studying in the 8th standard. After school hours he used to play marbles with his close friend Nagarajan on the street in front of his house in Pudukkottai in Tamil Nadu which was a princely state then.
Srinivasan was an advocate who also lived on the same street and was in the habit of making the boys run errands like posting letters, bringing cigarettes, sending messages to his Clerk who lived far away. The boys resented, but could do little about it.
The vegetable vendors would avoid his calls as he was the worst haggler and demanded vegetables at unaffordable and rock bottom prices. Srinivasan was lazy to go to the market which was half a kilometre away. One day he called my grandfather and Nagarajan and praised them as brilliant and obedient boys. The boys smelt something fishy.
He gave them a two rupee note and asked them to go to the market and bring fresh ladies fingers, drumsticks and brinjals. He told them not to pay more. On the way to the market the two boys hatched a plan to outwit the advocate.
They entered the market and the vegetable seller showed them fresh vegetables. But the boys chose only yellowing brinjals, stiff ladies fingers and drumsticks. The vegetable seller dissuaded the boys from purchasing them as they were rotten and not fit for consumption but the boys told him that they were not needed for cooking but for preparing some desi medicines and they had been instructed to bring only rotten vegetables. The seller gladly gave plenty of them for two rupees.
On seeing them Srinivasan was angry. He asked the boys to return them and bring back the money. They pleaded “Uncle! We are novices and do not have any experience in buying vegetables. Further the shopkeeper sold them on the condition that he would not take them back.’ Srinivasan realized the trick played by the boys and stopped giving them work.

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