The Boy Who

Huskin Dond s one of hda s mot taous and tocved a o s As 8 c h a

o oed0 r d . Fo w ford of bocks by iahos e o o

Charictie Brort, Rudyard pieg and so on He wrote hs trst now
Broke the Bank The Room on te Rocfn186 when he a s ser
stoped wrtng sncs s D o t own r ta s
af FRnty, a senotveand imagnatve boy Horm he hils of Duron

athu.the.ateeper.bay.grumbled io himaelfas he.sweptthe.steps

of a smalllocal bank.owncd by Seth Goxind Ram. aman
ad paragraph 1again oE wealth whose.laplazazd busines.dealing. hadd ollenbeought
th e writer show im.ia.the.sge.oL.nuln, Nathu sed the snall broom hiurriedly
us what Nathu is feelinge and carelessly, The diust, after rising in a cloud above his head,
settied down again on the steps. As he banged his panloudly
gainst a dstbin. Sitazam.the.Nashezmans.aon-pascd.ay
Staram was on his delivery round He had a bundle.of.freshly
pressed clothes balanced on his head Don't raise such dust" he
called out to Nathu. "Are you annoyed because they are
s l Tetustng to pay you another five rupees a month

T don't want to talk about it, complained the sweeper boy

Thaven't even received my
regular pay. Soon owo months pay
will.be due. Who would think this was a bank, holding up
a
poor man's salary? As soon as I get my money, l'm offl Not
another week will I work in this place:" And Nathu banged
the pan aginst the diustbin several times.

Well, I wish you luck, said Sitaram. 11 be onthe lookout

for job for And he
a new
you. plodded barefoot along the road,
the big bundle of clothes hiding most of his head and shoulders
At the fourth home he visited, delivering the washing. Sitaram
overheard the woman of the house saying how ditficult it was
to get someone to sweep the courtyard. Tying his bundle, Sitaram
aphacard unorganised
and careiess said, "T know of a sweeper-boy
who s looking for work. He might
verge of rui almost be able to work lor you from next month. He's with Seth.
CGovind
at the point of losing all his
Ram's bank just now, but they aren't giving him his pay, and he
money wants to leave.
plodded walked slowly
with diffic
a u e he "Oh, is that so? said Mrs Prakash. "And why aren't
30ething
they
payng him
ovement Of his
houlders up and down to
"They.must .be short.of money, said Sitaram with a slug.
how that he did not know
or care
Mrs Prakash laughed, "Well, tell him to come and see me
when he's free."
 bodh a c u s t o m e
been of help to
that he had ent on h
Sitaram, glad can
hobsted his hag
sgracefu bad or friend,
nacceptable, that and his
way or.tne.taa toher a
make

Frakash set out tree

Soon after, Mrs L g t a d y tamarind
the.cloth.shopas A
here that she lound her iriend,
alternoon tour ol
d from othes grew nca the.cock.o"
Ma Bhushan,
shelering
om
e lea
slapse fal and oe Prakash saud, that Seth Govind
noney Ms
Do you know, my dear, ornng
CAR Ohething. made a.cmpPIO
Ram's
bank.canL.eenpay who hasnt received
trom their
complaint
sweeper boy
I heard a

dstiest f g or 9 pay
l o r hwo honths
woty and nnapy
exclaimed Mrs Blhushan
1f dhey cant pay
' s diagraceful" a bad way. None of the
ohers
must be in
the sweeper, they
CAn be getung paid ether
and went
Prakash at the taunarind.tane
Q Mn Bhuslhan lelt Ma
her who
husband,
Jound sitng
under.
was the fan
w wold yon
describw h s
search ot sop, taiking wh he owner
basthore.s.clencal gooxts you
language M ngal cnied Mn
been
Bhushan. Tve looking lor
So there you
are what's happening to this town
Jurncatb.an.hour.
I don T know

kao.he.bank
in gong bankrupt
Dadsou
a i d Mr Jugal
Ashore, sng up saddenily.
What did you say
W hich c u l

bank, of coune, 1 hear they have

Seth Govind Kam's
Why, salay for over.three
their employee-no
stopped paying have an account with them,
months' Don't tell me you
McKishore
has" he said, and he called out to the
N o , but my nelghbour you
nest door T a usain, hae
of the barber shop
keeper Kams bank is about to collapse
Govind
latest Seth
heard the nmoney out while theres still tine
take your
Youd
1d.betler

cutting the
hair of an elderiy gentem.an,
Faiz Hussain, who
was

shook and he nicked his customers

was so startled that his hand
Ihe customer yelped patn and distress pain
with

ad parsgph 17 ight.car. the.awtul news he

distress because.ol
gsin because al the cut and ol his stllhe
unshorm,
heard. With one sude neck
sympathy had just and sped acTOSK
Ihe.road to a general
of his chair
ustner
Why do 1 leaped out He dialled Seth Govind
slate where there. was a lelephone,

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 By.aternoon the bunk gone through
had
nady mones,
al its
and the hurased
and the hu banka manager was helpless. Emergency funds
could only be.obtainet
nment banks
eeeribng the actia o
and now it was nearly closing ne
but dowm their
counters. But people gathered outide, on the steps 0r the bank
oupe of unnaned people
shouting,We want our moneyGne t to us today, or well

utnou break in! Fetch Seth Govind Ram, we know hes hiding
in the vaunt

the foem ot cash that the Miachiefmakers. who did not have a paisa in
Denk has avallable for
the bank, joined
the.crowd, 1he manager stood at the door and tried to calm
hisangry customer He declared that the bank had plentyof
money, that they could withdraw all they wanted
the next moming

drhas We wantE now chanied the Peopie. oW, thow, hoOW

preciousihems are hept to

A few stones were thrown, and the manager retreated tndoor,
prventtherm hom being
stolen
cong the iro-gril gateA Dnck hurtied through the alr
hurtled few M great speed window which advertised
P ss
the. bankh. 8
 Kam s number. The Seth was not at home.
Lne.seth wAR holidaing in Kabniz. Oh, Where was he, then
he eman did not
elderty genteman was that so
beieve f
He huried back to the
barber's shop and told
The bird has
fown! Seth Govind Ram Faiz Hussaln,
1 8g
has left town.
captu means a
collapse. Iil have the ret of Detinitely
a nd then he my haircut another tme.
dashed out of the
oltoe and.chequa.book shop. nkinabeclincar.hia
The news
spread through the bazaar with the
re. From the general stote & rapidity of a forest
aOnL the.cutomen, taeled to the teasbop.ca
and thea
sptead
ala hcm.ns
ditectona
and the
aa the paat sclet, the. tailar,. the tmulsndot, he
besr sng ontbe
paenc
en stood in groups at street comers
ne sallow in the loothilla weldom discassing
the
situation.
had
oods, earthquakes or drought. And so the a.col.and
ocal bank set imiornl
never had
crash of the
everyone
talking andpeculating and
rushing about
ang 4t went
Some boasted of their
y dicty fo his laightedns.congrarulating themselves
On having5 already taken. out their
put money. ot on never having
P y et speculaled on the reaons ftor the .crash,
pOBibie t o Seth
1be Seth had lled the state,Govind Kams pleaaure loving way
sald one. He had
h e news
sald another. Others tnsisted that he was tled the country,
R f O many peopie
hiding somewbere

unplesant Someone who had a relative

e the crash of
decided to
working as a clerk in the
call him and get the facta 1 bank
n B y to dont know
p e veY 0on
anything
ying to except
take their money
that half the. town.i.here,
out. Everyone seems to have
gone
and efect of
olljowinhou There'sa rumour that none of
y tacts or details you has been
palid
o great Well, the clerka have had their salaries We
a t o F arety
otherwise. lt may be that some of the
wouldnt be working
partdime
dom paid late, but that tan t diue to a shortage of workers are getng
cones rom fhinAing
the.clerk who.looks after their payments is on money.ts at hat
uroetanding slck leave. You
en ihthe don't expect me to do his work, do you' And he put
utare telepbone down the

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 He waved
iafbaja too You'll be lucky l you get
cheerfully, and pedalied away e.
eeping the steps, nuttenng lo himself

Nathu we
When he had na
d he sat down on
the.botlom.sep.to waa
dafaste forthe manager
He wa.deternined
to
Set his
pay.
haaud Who would have
thought the woucopre,
he
sald
to himsell, and lookrd thougntuuy a wonder
bow it coulid have happened.

Understanding the Text

e r these Quest

Why was Nau e tecer Coy, annoy

Ms Prakash's toling to Mrs Bhuahan's?
ow dd nes sbout me bark change from
p a 11: pra 13 and 1S

ct to the news about the bank? What words

was more wornied about his money than his injury?

ee A w e r these auetons aoouit in,

c t hat the Seth had run away becaue of

b Wha were aburd numours that were soreading aboutSeth Govind? (para 21)
Doyau thrk meSet anecutation made the rumours sasierto beleve? Why?
5 eoe to gndpara 20
a Who ssd these woro nd wy
b Accordng to you wrat nodent n tme stoy refoctod the macness of the town
at ts pea?

Rod paras 24 and 30 agan and answer these questons

yconoern tor workers lke Nathu
d Rum o ected by the colapse o the bank? Busnessmen lke
Setn
nyour conor, wno was tuy ponste breoking he bank? Was it Nathu, Staram, the bark
er Seh Govind Ram or the town? Give for
reasons tor you answer
Appreciating the Text
1. Do we-e rders-ow someting about the colapse of the benk that
do nar How do we know tha? How d0 you think ths adds humour to the Nathuor Sitaram
text'?

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 chmbed the steps of the bank, and
Lhen the polioe arved. They
pushed the crowd back
until the peupie Depa
dhipened, shostng that they wou De
other, Gradually everyonie
Dack in the morng
bank the Fe
anved next moming to eep.the.seps.of
Nathu arte
Nathu
booken glass
glas a
and stneseing
the
dlipersed moved apart
sw the relie and broken
the
lal Hoolg
and went O m G
steps. Raising his hands tn
thosand
h fwan bad enough Deing
fer from
suller trom a
a thou e of work" He
May they
were don Tmust suler n e tine
paid inegularty-qow
wallh s
brol, aetng
th
tue
where sumacked the steps
heoken glass and the sad Sutaram,
dhe wasbermat s O
ones and othe Good aoning, Nathu, Ae ready to take p a
new

you
geting a
his
t bicycle.
month? You'll have
have ltoo 1I spp
ef b e r i n d e n e monh:
Tou suppoe,
net
the lint of
job irom
s coug
that the bank
Hind akd Nathu.
did you say
You d betier
ho What
bankrupt
bank's gne
heard? The start demanding
Haven't you and then
twan pubik others a v e ,

atund
unal the
especlaly na grou Thang

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, one of Johnson bet
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too Was an int 0 m mportart particpnt the Plurrh
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Sue Wond f 9 e a
Woman (191 Bon (192a.An
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Understanding the Poem

A Mark tnes enences 8s true ( or not true (NT) If the sentences are
rewrite therm correctly. not ue,
a po Dws on her own
experence to pe the ikudence a0c
with coura9. no O
p
2 When e ays wod, the speor rofers to our planet and the pecpls resorg fit
3 Accordng to the soeer, destiny or tate has an important role to play nour e
4 Here wngs represerts a person's abilites or talents

5 Here horzon reters orly to the line in the landscape where the sky meets the sou
8 Answer these questions
What is trhe speasr ke ntaly7 What foars 00 you thek kept her Form purnung the e
hat she warted7 Wihch ine from the poem tels us that she ws afrad?
to ieove fer nest and y?
2What nored the speaker
wtpo, r e 00 you
hk
he spear found he power
tUre
to purnae her ams?
h e strergh
speaker fnd tomaut to soar to the utermout reac ws7 What was the imost difeu
Da the
pat of her oumey or ramow?
what makes our wornd big
hyour cpinion
you aspie to
bg word mean to ou What oree oearo and irterest
What does a

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