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Toontoony and Other Stories

Once upon a time-long-long ago, there was an age called Satya Yuga or the age of truth. In that golden age the people were truthful and they had plenty of food and happiness in all the houses. In that golden age, birds, beasts and other animals could talk and understand each other. In that age there was so much riches that the happy people would air their money in the open courtyards or roofs of their houses.

In that golden age there lived a king in the ancient Bangladesh. He lived in a luxurious palace surrounded by pools of clear blue water. Around the pools were beautiful gardens with many kinds of flowers and plants and trees.

Among the trees was a very tall one, and in that tree lived a tiny little Toontoony.

 


Bhombal Dass

That farmer had a goat. 

That goat was very old. 

Old men become wise with many experiences.

That goat, also, gathered experiences. Old men sometimes grow beards— For beards show experience. 

That goat also had a long beard.

 


Swim Little Fish Swim

Little Fish was small.

He had a small head 

and he had a small body.

He had a small tail

 and he had two small eyes. 

But his eyes were bright and shiny,

and he had a brave little heart.

 


A Tale of Two Brothers

This is Ratanpur. Biltu lives here. There is a school and a big play ground in this village. Everyday Biltu goes to the school by walking. In the afternoon many boys come to the play ground. They play football, cricket and many games there. An earthen road goes up to the river bank. The river is flowing along the village.


David Copperfield

The story traces the life of David Copperfield from an impoverished childhood to his mature manhood. The story of David Copperfield starts with his birth to his mother who was widowed shortly before his birth. He spends his early life happily with his mother and his housekeeper Peggotty. But his mother remarries, and this radically changes David’s life. He has enough reasons to hate his step father, and was sent to a boarding school. The story further continues into the death of his mother and his life working at Mr. Murdstne’s warehouse. David later starts living with his aunt Betsey, who treats her well and sends him to a good school. He falls in love with Dora and marries her, but she succumbs to illness and dies.