A HERO
Swami is a nine-year-old boy, who lives in Malgudi villayey his parents and grandmother. One-day, \( h \) is father was ready newspaper.
Swami lister to this, a news of the bravery of a village lad who, while returning home by the jungle path, came face to face with a tiger till some people came that way and killed the tiger.
After reading it through, father looked at Swami and asked, "What do you y to that?"
vami
: I think he must have been a very strong and grown up person, not at all a boy. How could a boy fight a tiger?
: A man may have the strength of an elephant and yet be a cowate whereas another man, who may have the strength of a straw bur has courage, can do anything.
: Suppose I have all the courage. What can I do if a tiger attacks me?
: Let alone strength, can you prove you have courage? Let me see if you can sleep alone tonight in my office.
(Swami had always slept beside his granny which irritated his father.) ami From the first of the next month I will sleep alone father.
: No, you must do it from today.
her
In the evening, Swami went to his granny and slept under her blanket. His er came and said to him:
ner : Get up.
nny (Father rolled his do you disturb him?
(Father rolled his bed and took it under his arms)
