Chitra Bharati : No. II THE TALKING TREE When little Gopal fails in his efforts to capture the notorious dacoit Kalsen, he decides to commit sucide. But the “Talking Tree” stops him to do this cowardice act and encourages him to fight against difficulties. “The Talking Tree” is the story of akind tree which provides in its shelter the humble and noble persons not only food and comfort but complete protection. Based on friendship and love among man, animal and nature, this is an inspiring tale for our teenagers to realise the worth of hard work in life. Did the tree really talk like a man? This suspense is revealed in this story in an interesting way. Other titles available in this series : Jai Bharat : Chandrahas : Bahadurshah ‘Zafar’ : Dhruv Tara : The Devil’s Web : Chaupatanand : Munshi Totaram in Heaven : The Sea Monster : The Gallants of Chittor : Secret Agent 005—Junior James Bond— The Death Trap (Book 1) Forthcoming titles in this series : Secret Agent 005—Junior James Bond—The Traitors (Book 2) : Space Star—The Mysterious Planet : Black Cat : Nawab Latpat : Secret Agent 005—Junior James Bond—Back to the Jail (Book 3) These comics are also available in Hindi. @ S. CHAND & COMPANY’ LTD All Rights Reserved Published by S. Chand & Com- pany Ltd, Ram Nagar, New Delhi-110055 and printed at S. CHAND & COMPANY LTD Head Office : Ram Nagar, New Delhi-110055 Show Room: 4]16-B, Asaf Ali Road, New Delhi-110002 Behari Ganguly Street, Rajendra Ravindra Printers (P) Ltd, Ram Nagar, New Delhi- 110055, Editor : Ravindra Kumar Gupta Script Writer: Shankar Sultan Puri Artworks Designer . R. K, Rai ‘Aminabad Park, Lucknow-226001 Blackie House, 103/5, Walchand Hirachand Marg, Bombay-400001 182, Anna Salai, Madras-600002 613-7, M. G. Road, Ernakulam, Cochin-682011 100012 ‘Sultan Bazar, Hyderabad-S00001 3, Gandhi Sagar East, Nagpur-440002 KPCC Bidg., Race Course Road, Bangalore-560009 Khazanchi Road, Patna-800004ONCE HE PLAYED_HAVOC IN THE KINGDOM OF RAJA PRITHVIPAL SINGH, KILLING & PLUNPERING AS HE WENT. ceo — REMOVE ALL THESE JEWELS OR | SHALL CUT YOU TO PIECES! RAJA PRITHVIPAL SINGH MADE AN ANNOUNCEMENT — DACOIT KAALSEN & BRINGS HIM TO COURT DEAD OR ALIVE, GETS TWO VILAGES AS REWARD.7O RUN AWAY TIME AGO, IN NORTH INDIA, THERE LIVED AN BY THE NAME OF KAALSEN. HE ALWAYS WORE A FEAR TO, SEE FACE PEOPLE HAD ONLY A LONGTHAT NIGHT KAALSEN & HIS GANG BROKE INTO THE HOUSE RICH WIDOW ‘AINED ON THE WIDOW, — Y our with THE \ | KEY To THE SAFE OR (tL KILL You! 7 TAKE PITY f on my cHILP. \\ ee [THE CHILD BEGAN TO | __ WEEP BITTERLY. | EN, \ MA...! 5 Zs MOTHER, HE THREW HIS ARMS AROUND KAALSEN. 7 aging MY BACK TO ME! ff << \He THOUGHT OVER THE PROBLEM _NIGHT @ PAY. ay THEY SAY /F ONLY } KAALSEN ISA 4 A f | COULD Cap- ie le FEROCIOUS. TURE KAALSEN, ) PACOIT. HOW | ALL OUR TROU- \ BLES wouLp BE OVER. 4 IS GOPAL'S MOTHER WAS ILL, ONE , PAY SKE BURST INTO TEARS. UNLESS YOU EARN SOMETHING. We _J ALL SOON ad THEY PONT ove Ye ME ANY WORK BECAUSE | } = | VM A CHILD. BUT LL CATCH KKAALSEN AND ‘ARN THE REWARP.__ J a. — on \ hs > ae KAALSEN Witt )i KILL YOU! : “aly ~ ee BUT GOPAL/S MIND WAS MADE UP. 4E SET OUT IN SEARCH OF KAALSEN, r HE WALKED ALL DAY: IN THE EVENING, COMPLETELY TIRED, HE WENT TO SLEEP BY THE ROAD SIDE.N THE STONE-HEARTED JOST THEN SOLDIERS B T KAALSEN MELTED WITH PITY. | UPON THE SCENE _ — CATCH HIM! HE MUSTN'T ESCAPE. SEN LEAPT OUT Oo} OW & RAN AWAY. » ( R xaacsens) TiGOPAL WAS SHAKEN OUT OF SLEEP. Yo WHAT: KAALSEN RUNNING AWAY ? | LL GIVE CHASE, me IN THE MORNING GOPAL PICKED UP THE TRAIL AGAIN, FOLLOWING THE GOPAL RAN AFTER KAALSEN BUT HE HAP NOT GONE FAR WHi EN. KAALSEN DISAPPEARED IN THE DARKNESS. Peay — WHAT SHALLI © / PO. NOW?I CANT HEAR THE SOUND OF HIS HORSES HOOFS ANY MORE ! HOOF-MARKS ON THE GROUND. AFTER SOME TIME HE REACHED A STREAM & THERE THE HOOF MARKS ENDEP ABRUPTLY. IVES IN THE JUNGLE ON THE OTHER SIDE jsscllel se id J THIS MEANS KAALSEN a ‘y ye ) ] COME WHAT May, 1 MUST CAPTURE { KAALSEN,___al COMPLETELY WORN OUT, GOPAL RETURNED HOME. GOPAL'S ELVE! R SISTER WAS GROWN- | UP BUT BLIND. SHE MET HIM JUST IN FRONT OF THEIR: HUT.BEEN STARVING “ZA | / BE ABLE To TRACI | POWN KOALSEN. 7p A MOTHER, MOTHER... SAY SOMETHING / SgWHAT'S HAPPENED To your, iS THE CRIES OF GOPALR | R, THE NEIGHBOURS Came SOPAL Your MOTHER DIED _O HUNGER & SICKNESS TEE But Now | suai. [Py GATSH KARL SEN MOTHER... GOPAL i GET SOME WATER, __ Ruicrs || MiTH THE HELP OF NEIGHBOURS) oo THEY PERFORMED THE ol LAST RITES eeeGORA BEGAN TO WEAVE ‘ ___ BASKETS AT HOME. GOPAL SOLD THE BASKETS IN THE MARKET, AND THAT 1S HOW CARRIED ON. THEY ONE DAY GOPAL'S NEIGHBOUR POORAN TAUNTED HIM — POORAN LAUGHED Ol! ONE SLAP FROM KAALSEN & YOU'LL HOW LONG wit L.| KRALSEN, WIN A ON SNISHED, | YOu LIVE OFF THE) RE: SEN eevous BASKETS mare By _!| WARDS FIND oe YOUR SISTER? WONT F | GOPAA MATCH 2 } YOU GET HER MARRIED? \;. | FROM A NOBLE § a f FAMILY, GOPAL MAPEA STRONG BOW 2 | ARROWS & BEGAN 70 PRACTISE ARCHERY IN EARNEST. | Yj, t pip; WE. HAVE PUT B ; gs { Dibl, WE. HAVE PUT BY SOME. “N7# 5S MONEY FROM THE SALE OF BASKETS. NOW | SHALL 7 SOON BE LEAVING IN SEARCH = OF KAALSEN Foes AH,RUCK AGAIN — GOP4 & GOPAL IN THEIR HUT_ < CET By OPA DiDi, DY adi sen HAS ATTACKED AGAIN. TO-MORROW <=, MORNING | SHALL LEAVE. , 'N SEARCH OF HIM. Saree \ eee ARMED WirH His BOW 2 ARROW, GOPAL WENT 70 THE STREAM. / ONCE AGAIN THE HOOF ( MARKS ENP HERE,AS ON ) THAT PAY. | MUST CROSS OVER T NIGHT KARLSEN AND HIS GANG | | L_OF THE STREAM. | THERE WAS PANIC ALL ROUND. /) {WELT HELP! pokes!) UME ROBBERS! EARLY MORNING, FRESHLY BATHED, GOPAL WENT TO THE TEM THE SRENGTH \ To capture | KAALSEN,OR |(® | SHALL Give uP my ure) ; GOPAL JUMPED ON TO THE DRY BED |ON CROSSING THE STREAM, HE SAW THE HOOF MARKS ONCE AGAIN — THEY'RE JUST LIKE THE ONES ON THE OTHER SITE. LET ME SEE WHERE THEY LEAD. HE SOON LEFT OPEN GROUND & CAME 10 THE EDGE OF A DENSE FOREST. Z KAALSEN MUST . HAVE HIS HIDE-OUT IN THIS FOREST. ma THIS TRAMPLED GRASS ELLS A TALE _ HORSES ) 2 HAVE GONE THIS WAY) THE JUNGLE BEGAN TO GET MORES eRe CaNee BUT GOPAL STILL PUSHED THESE GRASSES ARE SO TALL,| CAN’T MAKE OUT THE HOOF- MARKS ANY MORE.BUT I’M NOT TURNING BACK.4 Day 15 DONE, iT's 2 GETTING PARK BUT NOTA TRACE OF THE DACOITS ! WHAT SHALL 1 DO? SNAKE ADVANCER TOWARDS HIM. SUPPENLY, THROUGH THE BUSHES GOPAL SAW A MAN SEATED ON THE. GROUND, EATING & MANGO, A PEAPLY a WN, | THE ARROW PIERCED THE ASOD OF | THE SNAKE, PINNING [T TO THE GROU- NB. THE SNAKE WRITHED IN AGONY. < 4 SS Wed oa sh; to Oe THE MAN TURNED ROUND & LOOKEP, | FIRST AT THE WRITHING SNAKE & THEN AT GOPAL. LCV Ang y S Sapa¥ BRAVOIWELL DONE, My \ = 2 YOUNG SAVIOR. TELLME =] & } WHO ARE YOU'® WHAT CAN 1 BO FOR YOU ? _ Px MY FATHER LEFT HEARTH & HOME & WENT AWAY EVEN BEFORE | WAS BORN. MY MOTHER IS PEAP & MY SISTER IS BLIND... ( BUT WHAT ARE You By ) DOING IN THIS TENSE ( Forest ALL By YOURSELF ? ya ft THE KING HAS ANNOUNCED A REWARD OF TWO VILLAGES FOR | | ANYONE WHO CAN CAPTURE DACOIT KAALSEN. 1 WANT. To. BAG THIS RE- WARP & GET MY SISTER MARRIED. BUT WHO ARE you, SIR? THE ¢ a ABIT& sAip_ MAN THOUGHT ma SEE, GOPAL, | WORSHIP / THE SPIR(T OF THIS FOREST. 8 THE TREE BEFORE YOU IS THE) ABODE OF THAT SPIRIT. I7 _ANYONE WHO PRAYS TO VERS i tws SPIRIT With sincerity \fAS | IS BOUND To HAVE HIS PRAYER ANSWERED, WHY | DON'T YOU ALSO MEDITATE UNDER THE TREE ? GOPAL SAT POWN To MEDITATE AS THE MAN HAD TAUGHT HIM HE PROSTRATEP HIMSELF. BEFORE THE TREE & ASKED FOR A BOON, A VOICE ROSE FROM THE TREE SON, 1’M PLEASED WITH YOu GOPAL WAS AMAZED. HE LOOKED. AROUND HIM BUT THE PRIEST HAD DISAPPEARED, WHO IS THAT ( TALKING 2AND. WERE HAS THE, PRIEST GONE ?. nar: YOU ACTUALLY, PEAK THE LA| NGUAGE’) OF HUMAN BEINGS ?,THETTREE SAI AGAIN. Zor, s YES..THAT ISA 4a a LONG STORY... < BUT DON'T Lose <= ae “ « HEART, SON BO vou wa HOW WILL MY PROBLEM ) BE SOLVED? } FOR THE PRESENT, 27> EARN A LIVING BY SELLING MY FRUITS, FIND A GOOD MATCH FOR YOUR SISTER. ALL WILL BE WELL. GOPAL WAS THRILLEV. HE BEGAN TO CLIMB UP THE TREE WHEN SUDDENLY HE HEARD THE ANIMAL SNARL. LORD, bass A LANGUR!. a A FAT LANGUF LEAPT OUT OF THE BRANCHES AND POUNCEP ON GOPAL.GOPAL SCRAMBLED DOWN & AN ARROW TO HIS BOW. Lae P BUT THE TREE MAPE PEACE BETWEEN THEM STOP GOPAL/MANTU, <> BEWARE ! IT WAS J WHO ALLOWED GOPAL TO PLUCK THE FRUITS. MANTU STRETCHED OUT A HAND IN FRIENDSHIP TOWARDS GOPALAS GOPAL SET OFF WITHA LOAD OF MANGOES, THE TREE TOLD HIM _ he ™ Lhe * GOPAL, PON'T \ TELL MY SECRET We TOA SOUL, OR Re youl. BE’ STR- ZZ, SKEN DUMB! N ¥ BROTHER & SISTER BEGAN TO. LIVE IN COMFORT WHEN GOPAL WENT TO THE FOREST THEY ATE TOGETHER LIKE THE TO PICK MANGOES HE CARRIED BEST OF FRIENTS. SOME FOO? FOR MONTU. r weGOPALS NEIGHBOUR,POORAN, WAS ONE DAY HE QUIETLY FOLLOWED VERY JEALOUS BY TUR HE io SOPAL SM r HOW IS (T THAT GOPAL \ HAS SUDDENLY \ Come INTO Wo ¥ Tv. THE SECRET OF GOPAL'S PROSPERITY WAS OUT. va yet SO THAT ts tty NEXT DAY POORAN ALSO WENT HE WAS ABOUT TO CLIMB TO PICK MANGOES. THE TREE WHEN _ eae AYMONT POUNCED ON POORAN— MONTG THREW HIM TO THE GROUND EAT GOPAL HAPPENED TO COME By THAT VERY MINUTE. near {BUT is "POOR AN! MONTH, cet, pis GO. Feienoour. if YOU HADNT COME, HE’? HAVE FINI- ‘SHED ME. Nee ke Te. 1 KNOW.MONTU IS THE KEEPER PR OF THIS TREE. | ge| NexT pay. | IT1§ TIME THOUGHT OF copA's MARRIAGE. POORAN MIGHT BE ABLE TO ADVISE ME. OPAL SAID POORAN, CAN YOU SUGGEST A GOOD He Gas MATCH FOR MY SISTER GOPA? ‘or SURE, MY SISTER'S SON |S JUST THE PERSON. BUT HE WANTS TWO VIL~ \ LAGES 4S DOWARY., TALK To. BEHALF. THEIR TERMS ARE QUITE ACCEPTABLE TO ME. ALL | NEED IS TEN DAYS’ TIME. THEM ON MY. REMEMBERED WHEN GOPAL HAV LEFT, | PoORAN BEGAN TO Tuil ONE DAY GOPAL HIS RESOLVE. GOPAL SEEMS TO BE VERY RICH. BUT HOW CAN ONE BECOME RICH SIMPLY BY SELLING MAN- GOES ? THERE |S SOME- THING FISHY. TWO MONTHS HAVE GONE BY & | HAUN'T YET CAPTURED KABLSEN. HOW WILL 1 GIVE THE DOWRYWHAT MAKES, YOu SO sap, GOPAL? SOME TIME AGO | HAD RESOLVED TO caP- TURE KAALSEN. BUT TO THIS DAY MY RESOLVE REMAINS ONLY A WHAT DO You GAIN BY CAPTURING HIM 2 TWO VILLAGES BY WAY OF REWARD. WITH THESE AS POWRY, MY SISTER CAN BE MARRIED OFF. | ALREADY HAVE BESGOr MARCH IN FIX UP THE MATCH & COME HERE YOUR WISHES WILL COME TRUE, FOR SURE.GO HOME IN PEACE. GOPAL BOWED Low PEFORE THE SPIRIT OF THE TREE & WE BACK HOME SMILING.THE MEMBERS OF, KAALSENS GANG HELD A MEETING oa you Be ee 7 . OUR LEADER KAALSEN reales HAS DESERTED US HE WE SHALL LOOT & : PLUNPER IN TH! HAS NOT COMMITTED A AA OE EAALSEN. DACOITY FOR DAYS & WEVE a BEEN LEFT To STARVE. Ssh u THE FOLLOWING NIGHT KAALSEN'S MEN BROKE INTO THE ROYAL PALACE REMONE ALL THOSE: JEWELS THEY LEFT BEHIND RAJA PRITHVIPAL SINGH wi Ri PIECE OF PAPER 1 HINGE AE ET oa nee 2 STIFF, HE ANNOUNCED AN EVEN BIGGER REWARD. ANYONE WHO CAP- TURES KAALSEN, PEAD OR ALIVE, WILL RECEIVE THREE VILLAGES AS REWARD.Fx TOW | POORAN GOT VERy] = onan y ey J since you CAN'T AFFORD: A GOOP POWRY, WHY DON'T } | YOUGIVE GOPATOME IN MARRIAGE ? a = i /_ NEVER! I’M SORRY = / BaT | CANT MARRY GOPAL Has BECOME TOO PROUD OF winaseuE 2 TKNOW WHAT? PLE CUT DOWN THAT Manso TREE. THAT WILLEIX HM ( OFF My SISTER TOA SOOP-FOR-NOTHING. | MONTUWAS NOT WW THE TREE | -- JUST THEN bas \ | ‘ Now 1s my Ah CHANCE / U7. © V Foe BUT MANTU TURNED uP KE STRAIGHTAWAY SUDDENLY &.. POORAN:GOPAL WENT UP_TO THE TREGHE MEDITATED FOR SO} TIME & A VOICE GREETED HIM _ ae be THE RAJA HAS WHAT'S THE MAT- << ANNOUNCED A REWARD Fie ae Se iBRee eases 2 RRE YOUSO SAD? OT a) ? KAALSEN. TELL ME HIS WHEREABOUTS. PLEASE, OUT OF KINDNESS FOR My BLIND SISTER a Wan, 3 THE TREE a GOPAL WAS AMAZED, S. VERY WELL. BRING © << Je THE RAJA TO THIS Be PLACE TO-MORROW ">> MORNING. 1 SHALL AR- <= f), RANGE FOR THE CAP- 7 TURE OF ee aoe / THS TREE SURE es SOM MIRACU: Lous POWERS. MES. GOPAL PRESENTED HIMSELF. BERG SE An a, REMEMBER, IF YOu : HAVE MADE A FALSE CLAIM, YOU WILL BE MAHARAG, I'VE TRACKED IGEP. DOWN KARLSEN. CLEASE COME WITH ME SO SHAT WE CAN CAPTURE KAALSEN.AS THEY APPROACHED THE MANGO THE PEOPLE WERE ASTONISHED TREE, MANTU POUNCED ON THe TKE TREE WAS QUICK TO STOP wee aversTHE TREE | SWEAR | SHALL KEEP MY WORP. _ YES, O KING, IM THE TREE TALISING.! SHALL PRESENT KAALSEN TO. YOU JUST NOW BUT FIRST YOU MUST PROMISE TO GWE GOPAL THE THREE — VILLAGES AS REWAR? = AND OUT OF THE HOLE JUMPEP A MOST FEROCIOUS LOOKING MAN.Ff WHAT, 1S THAT you, ALU ? ae, Soe baiest : ) \ ale 21 SHALL RE- LATE TO You HOW | BECAME A U ~ ln ae AND KAALSEN ALIAS KALYU PLUNGED INTO HIS STORY. MAHARAJ, PERHAPS YOU REMEMBER_ TWELVE YEARS AGO | WAS A WATCHMAN AT THE PALACE. = & REMEMBER)WITH A LOT OF WEALTH TIED UP IN A BAG, HE WENT BACK TO HIS WIFE, HERE, KAMALA, LOTS OF MONEY, LIVE IN STYLE! WHERE DIP YOU GET ALL THIS MONEY ? UM ONLY PLUNDERING Z THE TYRANT WHO FORCED ME TO LEAD THE LIFF OF pep APACOIT. NONO!1 DON'T NEED YOUR ILL-GOTTEN WEALTH! | DON'T WISH TO SEE YOUR FACE } AGAIN AND DON’T rou CAST YOUR EVIL SHA- POW ON MY CHILDREN, BUT KALL’ WAS INNO MOOR TO LISTEN TLL GIVE UP HOUSE & HOME BUTI WON'T STOP TILL VE DESTROY= ED THE KING, THAT Bay | inter LEFT HIS HOME FOR EV Ty VERY WELL LL NOT CAST MY_ SHADOW _ON MY CHILDREN. / LEAVE THEM IN GOD'S HANDS.KAALSEN CHEWED THE LEAVES ©: TAMERIND TREE TO MAKE HIS VO! BEEP 8 HOARSE Tis REIGN OF TERROR SPREAD” THROUGH THE LENGTH & BREADTH OF THE KINSPCAA © Gap, \ PROTECT us | FROM \ > KAALSEN. _) AND THAT 'S HOW | WAS TURN- ED INTO THE WICKEP PACOIT KAALSEN... BUT MY HEART WAS: PIERCED BY THE CRIES OF THE RICH WIDOW’S CHILD. HE SOBBED HIS HEART ,OUT & KEPT TELLING ME, BRING MY MOTHER BACK TO ME..."FROM THAT PAY 1 GAVE UP A LIFE OFONE DAY_ KALU, YOU HAVE STOLEN THINGS FROM THE PALACE. My LORD, THAT iS A FALSE CHARGE STOP TALKING \ ROT./ORPER_ | YOU TO LEAVE MY KINGZOM. My CHILDREN. WILL STARVE TO DEATH. IN TRUTH, KALU HAD NOT COMMIT - TED A THEFT ATALL.WHEN THE KING TURNED DOWN d/s APPEAL, KALU_WAS FILLED WITH A BURNING DESIRE FOR REVENGE. KING, YOU'RE A TYRANT! FOR THIS CRUELTY TO MY CHILDREN, YOU SHALL PAY VERY PEARLY / j J KALU DONNED A MASK, COLLECTED A BAND OF OUTLAWS & BEGAN TO LOOT & PLUNDER IN THE NAME OF DACOIT KAALSEN.| NOW KAALSEN BEGAN TO MiSs HIS. CHILDREN. HE SET OUT TO LOOK FOR THEM, KS #E WENT BAC HOME, VOW NOL My House Has oh ) COLLAPSED/ MY CHILD- REN MUST HAVE 8EEN BURRIEP UNDER, Pe Aa eg ¢ | TERRIBLY UNUAPPY, HE WAS RETURNING | TO HIS HIDE-OUT ‘WHEN — io eaeemaienne HH, WHAT'S THAT ? A BABY LANGUR, SHIVE- RING WITH THE COLD/ POOR THING! KALU MADE A FIRE OF GRASS ANP TWIGS FOR THE BABY LANGUR re} "Be ed oS SY 1 eas) EFUL FOR THE WARMTH, THE GRATI LANGUR CLUNG TO HIM SEATED UNDER THE MANGO TREE Wid] THE LANGUR, KALU WAS THINKING | Snow you Ss. (SHALL CALL you MANTU, azo SHOW SHALL | FEED BOTH MYSELF & THis LITTLE BABY LANGUR ?/ OKING,| HOLLOWED OUT THIS MIGHTY TRUNK OH, MANGO / HOW BOUNTIFUL THIS / TREE (s/f SHALL fee cua \ MANTY SHALL BE ) MY COMPANION & PRAYER ES mie a————— | | 1 WAS DEEPLY MOVEP TO SEE GOPAL HUNTING AROUND FOR |, 4 THE DACOLT KAALSEN, IMAPE UP MY MIND TOHELP HIM. AND WHEN HE SPOKE OF HIE MOTHER 2 SISTER, J KNEW FOR SURE THAT < 80TH WERE MY CHILDREN SS ED YES, MY PAUGHTER Tr AD GOPA IS BLIND... Wi Poe I LEFT HOME, SHE WA ONLY FIVE YEARS OLD & GOPAL WAS YET T0_) seitam wuaratl THE RAJA WAS PEEPLY SRIEVED ey rm: lg SORRY AN) INJUSTICE ON MY \ PART PUT YOU ON THE iy WRONG ROAD. GRIEVE NOT, MY LORD. ALL THIS WAS PESTINEP TO HAPPEN. PLACE ME UNDER ARREST S GINE THE THREE VILLAGES TO GOPAL. OH FATHER, (i's ALL BECau- 2 SE OF ME MUST BE PuNI- SHED, My SON. you MusT ARRANGE 4 GOOD WED- DING FoR \ Cr asset 5 Sere i | } GOPAL STOOD IN FOR HIS FATHER aT | cae PRIMER SINGH ORDERED A THE ral OF HIS SISTER. TONE ET TO BE Ri EI WEPPING CEREMONY Ss SS UNPER THE TREE + fe IT 1S ONLY FOR THE OOP OF MEN THAT TREES BEAR FRUIT, THAT RIVERS, FLOW Sid aye. PAINTS TAKE Cees ES cueing 4The Kennett Library Supplementary Readers This is a series of great classics of English literature retold in simple English for school children, The books are attractive- ly illustrated and simplification is based on structure contro! and graded vocabulary principles, Exhaustive notes giving exer- cises on vocabulary, comprehension: and language study have been given at the end of each book. Rs. Rs. 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