The Beggar

kind sir have piry turn your attention to a poor hungry man for three days I have had nothing to eat I haven t five copecks for a lodging I swear it before god . for eight years I was a village sohoolteac .

intrigues. i fell a victim to calumny it is a year now since i have had anything to do the advocate sergei looked at the ragged fawn colored overcoat of the suppliant as his had seen  this aman somewhere before, I have not had an offer of a position in the province of kaluga the mendicant went on butI am obliged to by  circumstances . sergei eyes fell on the man overshoes one of bwhich was high and the other low and he suddenly remembered something ;

                  The Snake and Mirror

Has a snake ever coiled itself round any part of your body , A full blooded cobra all of us fell sell silent . the question came from the homeopath . the topic came up when we were discussing snakes. we listened attentiviy as the doctor continued with his tale ti was a hot summer night about ten clock i had my meal at the restaurant and  retuned to my room.

I heard a noise from above as I opened the door. The sound was a familiar one . One could say that the rats and i shared the rood I took out my box of matches and lighted the kerosene and the table. I took off my black coat white shirt and not sowhite vest and hung them up I opened the two windows in the room. it was an outer room with one facing the open yard. it had a tiled roof with long supporting gables that rested on the beam oves the wall. there was no ceiling there was a regular traffic of rats to and from the beam I mabe my bed verands for a little air but the wind god seemed to have taken time off. I went back into the room and sat down on the chair. I opened the box beneath the table and took out a book the materia medica . I opened it at the table on which stood the lamp and a large mirror a small comd lay besibe the mirror .One feels tempted to look into a mirror when it is near one. I took a look. In those bays i was a great admirer of beauty and I believed in making myself look handsome. I was unmarried and I was a doctor I felt i had to make my prsence felf i picked up the comd and ran it through my hair and adjusted the parting so that it looked straight and seera.

By now you have learnt that a number of important life processes continuosly take place within the body of is a living organism it is because of these life processes that organisms remainalive. The activities which keep an organism alive are nutrion growth respiration transportation and irritating etc you have already leam about nutrition let us read about respirator transportation of substances and excretion.

                        Why do we. Respire?

Our body needs energy for its various as activites.

This energy is produced in our body from the food we take the food we take has so stored chemical energy in it this energy is released when food is digested and the components of the digested food react with oxygen in the cell this process is called respiration. Therefore we respire to produce energy needed by the body for its various activities. To get oxygen we need to :

Breathe fresh air rich in oxygen. 

Transport the inhaled oxygen from respiratory organs to every call in the body.

you already know that blowing air biowing air is called wind. wind is very useful for us wind power is uned for pumping water for irrigation generating electricty moving blades of windmills etc . but when the wind blowe too hard it causes a lot of destruction . strong winds may uproot trees destroy electricity and telephine lines ;

                                         Soil

soil is one of the most important natural resources. it is a mixture of different types of rock particles and remans of dead plants and animals soil is found all around us in gardens school playgound at the parks at construction sites around us in gardens school playground at the parks at construction sites and also in the fields. it lies beneath our feet and is often hidden by roads and buildings. prodably this is the reason we often fail to realize how much soil affects our lives.

                                                     uses of soil 

soil plays an important role in the survival of organisms on the earth. its uses are as  follows.

  soil is also very important as a habitat-a home for millions of soil organisms like insects. earthworms  bacteria fungi ect .

it provides anchorage to trees and vegetation. 

look around what do you see.

Many things a row of houses large trees small plants peopls birds animals and many othres.

Each house in your locality and alos elsewhere remains at its allotted plact the tree in near yous house remains there itself. birds keep flying from one place to another . they may sit for a while on a tree top people may sit or move from one place to another so we see there are two different types of odjects these are.

     .      the odjects which do not change thir position with time.

     .      the odjects which do not change their position with time are said to be at rest.

the objects which change their positions with time.

We use different kinds of substances in our homes every day . These substances include milk vinegar lime juice curd pure water baking soda salt sugar stain cleaner oven cleaner etc. All of these substance can be classified into acidic basic and neutral substances on the basis of their properties. 

                                     Acids

The word acid is derived from the latin word acidus meaning sour to taste. Acids are present in a number of food items life curd lemons raw mangoes tomatoes grapes apples tamarinds and vinegar.  Substances the contain acids are called acidic substances.

                                Reach for the Top 

 the onls woman in the word who has scaled mt everest twice was born in a society where the birth of a son was ragarded as a blessing and a daughter thuogh not considered a curse was not generally welcome .

When her mother was expecting santosh a travelling holy man giving her his blessing assumed that she wanted a son but to everyone surprise the unborn child grandmother who was standing close by told him that they did not want .

A son the holy man was also surprised nevertheleless he gave the requested blessing and as destiny would have it the blessing seemed to work santosh was born the sixth child in a family with five sons a sister to fivr broyhers. 

she was born in small village of joniyawas of rewari district in haryana.

the girl was given the name santosh which means contentment. but santosh was not always content with her place in a teaditonal way of life. she began living life on her own termays content with has place in a traditional way of start.

                     Fear no More

fear no more the heat the heat the sun not the furious winter rages thou thy worldly task hast dons thou thy wordiy task hast done home art gone and ta

en thy wages golden lads and girls all must golden lads and girls all must as chimney sweepers come to dust.

fear no more the frown the great thou art past the tyrant stroke care no more to clothe and eat To thee the reed is as the oak to the screptre learning physic must all follow this and come to dust fear no more the lightning flashy nor the all dreaded thunder stone fear not slander censure rash thuo hast

hast finished joy and moan all lovers young all lovers must consign to thee and come to dust.

A small cottage interior . there is an entrance back right [ which may be curtaineg ]. another door to the left must be a practical door.

the furniture is simpls consisting of a small tabie towards the left a chair or two and a divan rather upstage on the right. On the tabls is a tetephone. 

[ when the curtani rises gerrard is standing by the tabls making a phone call. he is of medium height and wearing horn rimmed glasses ......He is dressed in a lounge suit and a great coat. his voice is cultured.]

well tell him to phone up directly. i must know..... yes I expect i ii still be here but you mustn count on that in about ten minutes time. Right ho  goodbye.

any thing you like i know all the answers. but before we degin i should like to change my position you may be comfortable but i am not .

sit dowe there asd no funny business [ motions to a chair and seats himself on the divan by the bag ], now then we have a nice little talk about yourelf

  at last a sympathetic audience lll tell you the story of my life how as a child i was stolen by the gypsies and why at the age of thirty two i find myself in my lonely essex cottage how.....