Swami never met anyone as
good as Samuel
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Samuel met everyone more than swami.
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Lying in bed, Swami realised with a shudder that it was
Monday morning. It looked as though only a moment ago
it had been the last period on Friday. Already Monday was
here. He hoped that an earthquake would reduce the school
building to dust, but that good building—Albert Mission
School—had withstood similar prayers for over a hundred
years now. At nine o’clock Swaminathan wailed, ‘I have a
headache.’ His mother said, ‘Why don’t you go to school
in a jutka*?’
‘So that I may be completely dead at the other end? Have
you any idea what it means to be jolted in a jutka?’
‘Have you many important lessons today?’
‘Important! That geography teacher has been teaching the
same lesson for over a year now. And we have arithmetic,
which means for a whole period we are going to be beaten
by the teacher… important lessons!’
And Mother generously suggested that Swami might stay
at home.