Suvvidhi

A fire was burning at a fireplace, and the smoke had spread until all was half-hidden. A parrot has eaten the seed of the gram and left the husk. A cow has eaten its fodder and scattered half of it about. Two children are playing — one wholly absorbed in a single toy, the other only spreading his many toys around, not playing at all. And a great share of the world's food, they say, is left half-eaten and the other thrown away. A young man comes, and after we talk a while, tells me he thinks a...

A wooden horse a thousand years old, from the old times, was stumbling as it went along the ground. “Why do you stumble?” I asked. “I am old,” said the horse, “and the roads are new. I cannot bring the two into step.”

A fish was swimming past in a great hurry. What is it, another asked — where are you rushing off to? I have had news, said the first, that clouds have gathered over the far shore of the sea. And I must go and see what water is — so I am hurrying to see the water.