4. On what occasions would the author cross
the station at Deoli?
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Explanation:
The author used to spend his summer vacations at Dehra with his grandmother. He crossed the station at Deoli to reach Dehra and again while returning from there. ii) While the train stopped at Deoli, nobody got off the train and nobody got in.
Answer:
When I was at college I used to spend my summer vacations in Dehra at my grandmother’s place. I would leave the plains early in May and return late in July. Deoli was a small station about thirty miles from Deora, it marked the beginning of the heavy jungles of the Indian Terai.
The train would reach Deoli at about five in the morning, when the station would be dimly lit with electric bulbs and oil-lamps, and the jungle across the railway tracks would just be visible in the faint light of dawn. Deoli had only one platform, an office for the station-master and a waiting room. The platform boasted of a tea stall, a fruit vendor, and a few stray dogs; not much else, because the train stopped there for only ten minutes before rushing on into the forests.
Why it stopped at Deoli, I don’t know. Nothing ever happened there. Nobody got off the train and nobody got in. There were never any coolies on the platform. But the train would halt there a full ten minutes, and then a bell would sound, the guard would blow his whistle, and presently Deoli would be left behind and forgotten.
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