Bubbling Well Road

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Rudyard Kipling (1882-1936) is world renowned poet, essayist, novelist, short story writer and a journalist. Some of his classics are Kim, Jungle Book and Barrockroom Ballads. He was also a recipient of the Noble prize in 1907 for literature. ‘Bubbling Well Road’ is one of the humorous short stories. The author begins it with a reference to the location of Chachuran, a hamlet. Above this hamlet, the Chenab river falls into the Indus. Five miles west of Chachuran lies the bubbling well road, and the house of the gosain or priest of the Arti-goth. Though the priest showed him the road he was not willing to thank him. The Arti-goth patch was about three to four miles square. It was full of green plumed grass and whenever wind blows the grass turns over in silver rises from ten feet to twenty feet high. The priest of Arti-goth is a one-eyed man and carries burnt (the impress of two copper coins) between his brows. Every time he comes out of the patch he is stoned by the villagers and he runs back to the patch like a strayed wolf. Some people say that he was tortured by a native prince in the olden days. He was so old enough that he must have been capable of mischievous deeds during the days of King Ranjith Singh. His most pressing need is clothing and the help of British Government. These things happened when the grass was tall and thick. The villagers of Chachuran informed the author about a sounder of pig with foot long tushes had gone into the Arti-goth patch. Though entering the jungle grass is always an unwise step he entered it. Although he knew nothing of pig hunting he accepted the challenge. He decided strongly to ride it down in a fair chase. The writer’s dog Mr. Wardle, the terrier went with its master into the grass patch. Mr. Wardle strongly believes that its master was incapable of existing for an hour with out its advice and

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