Unity Is Strength

Once, an old man was very ill and lay dying in his bed. He had four sons who were al­ways fighting with each other. He always worried about them and wanted to teach them a lesson and asked his sons to come to him. When they came, the old man gave them a bundle of sticks and said, “Can you break these sticks?”

The first son tried to break the bundle but nothing hap­pened. He tried very hard and finally gave up. Then it was the turn of the second son to try his luck. He thought it would be an easy task and picked up the sticks easily. He tried his best to break the sticks but nothing happened. Then, the third son tried to break the bundle of sticks, but he couldn’t do anything either.

Meanwhile, the youngest son jeered at his brothers and thought they were very incom­petent. He thought he was very clever and took one stick at a time and easily broke all of them.
The old father then smiled at his sons and said, “Children, do you understand what hap­pened? It is always easy to break the sticks one by one. But when they are bundled to‑ gether, none of you could break them. In the same way. you four brothers should always be together. No one will be able to hurt you then.” The four brothers realised what their father was trying to teach them and forgot all their enmity and learnt that unity is strength.
From that day onwards, they never fought with each other and lived together in peace and harmony.

A Bus Conductor

A bus conductor is the most important organ of public transport system. He has a very difficult duty. His day starts early in the morning as he is to reach the depot early. He is picked by the staff bus to reach the depot.
As soon as he reaches depot he marks his attendance and takes charge of his bus. He is provided a form known as waybill.
He notes down the opening number of the tickets of different denominations on the waybill. He issues tickets of different denominations to the com­muters and keeps an account of the tickets sold on each trip. At the end of the trip he notes the closing number of the tickets.
His job is comparatively easy in the morning and noon time. He has to deal with passengers from every walk of life But he is much busy at the hours of the day.
He has a small leather bag to keep money and tickets. He moves from one end to the other to distribute tickets to the passengers.
At peak hours there is a great rush of passengers at every stop. Generally there is no queue at the stops so he has to prevent the overcrowding of the bus. Very often he has to deal with typical passengers.
He has to keep a watch on pick pocketeers also. He has to be very vigilant and tactful. Some passengers try to cheat him. They try to travel without paying fare. College students generally tease him for the sake of fun.
He gets a rest of few minutes at the end of each trip. During this period he takes a cup of tea or smokes. At the end of his duty, he deposits the cash with the cashier.

A Book Fair

A book fair is a fair for selling and displaying books. A book fair is usually arranged on the important days of a year. Sometimes any institution or a group of books 
are found on miscellaneous subjects. People from different sects come and gather here.

Mainly literate people take interest in a book fair. Young boys and girls gather here to find out their favorite books. In a book fair there are different stalls of different publishers.

Many publishers, poets, and writers come here. Besides selling and buying books, different cultural functions are held in a book fair. Even some stalls are found in a book fair to sell snacks, cigarettes and trifling items of daily necessities. Sometimes in a book fair some unpleasant incidents take place for the evil motive of the miscreants. So, the complete interest for the book fair is often marred. Anyway despite little untoward events, a book fair is very important for the enlightened section of people.