Brave Hearts

Author(s): Kumarpal Desai
Publisher: Eye Care Foundation

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Triumph Over Mind
In West Kansas City in the United States of America, cold breeze was blowing all around. It was winter. The morning sun was spreading its gentle rays all over the open spaces. Just then two lads were on way to their school, running fast on a dusty road. They wanted to reach school before anyone else had arrived there. They were a bit late on that day. The elder of the two, named Clyde was thirteen years of age while the younger one was only eight. Coming from a farming family, both were stoutly built. They were assigned the task of lighting the fire in the school before anyone had arrived so that the school building would be warm. Thus they wanted to make their teacher and their school mates comfortable on their arrival. That was their daily routine. They did not want anyone else to do the job. That would look bad and may even put them to shame.
Breathing hard, the two boys finally reached the school even before anyone else had arrived. First they collected a few pieces of wood and shrub and put the same in the. Glen, the younger of the two found a tin that contained some inflammable substance. Thinking that it was Kerosene, he handed it over to the elder one saying that once it was poured in the hearth and was lighted, the fire would start instantaneously. Clyde, the elder one took his brother by his
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