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FROM THAT DAY I DECIDED NOT TO TRAVEL ALONE

l was about to visit my friend ROHIT who lived about four kilometers away. I decided to use a short cut to reach her house. The short cut was actually a small path cutting across a rubber plantation. It was rumored that an accident has taken place there a long time ago. So, people didn’t prefer to use that track. But in excitement to meet my friend, I went on that path. Suddenly, I heard a loud moan from behind the rubber trees to my right. I was in a dilemma whether to help the poor soul or run for my life. I mustered all my courage to help the unknown person. My name is JAGRIT”, her voice was soft and mellow. Her skin was very pale almost as if she had bleached herself”. ”Perhaps, I should take you to clinic,” 1 said cautiously. She declined my offer and decided to follow me to my friend’s house. She began telling me about her accident which took place ten years ago and how she died on the spot. I screamed an ran back home. I fainted at the doorstep and was down with fever for th

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN

Two roads diverged in yellow wood, And sorry i could not travel both And be one traveler,long i stood And looked down one as far as i could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same. And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh,I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back, I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence; Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.