The girl quenched his thirst by giving him a green bamboo-mugful of water drawn from a pristine water trough she had set by letting water dip drop by drop from a green bamboo stem into the trough she had dug.
When Noor Muhammed kissed the girl, birds from the forest rose in bliss and the water in the trough rose and stirred. All at once the girl vanished.
Iswaran was an honest and resourceful man. He was always energetic and prompt at his duties. Iswaran accompanied Mahendra everywhere without any question or complain. He could turn any deserted inhabitable place into a homely habitable place. Iswaran was a wonderful cook. Whenever Mahendra was transferred to a new place, Iswaram produced vegetables and cooked…
Sergei was a kind and honest man. Sergei couldn’t tolerate lies and dishonesty. He thought that everyone should earn money by working hard. He was not the kind of man who took undue advantage of a person’s helplessness and exploited him. When Lushkoff came to his house to chop wood, he felt bad because Lushkoff’s…