children was the old woman who had shown kindness to Putraka in his
loneliness and trouble. For when he told Patala the story of his life,
she reproached him for his neglect of one to whom he owed so much. She
made him feel quite ashamed of himself, and he flew away and brought
the dear old lady back with him, to her very great delight.

31. Which of the people in this story do you like best?

32. Do you think Putraka deserved all the happiness which came to
him through stealing the wand, the shoes and the bowl?

33. Can you suggest any way in which he could have atoned for the
wrong he did to the brothers whose property he took?

34. What is the chief lesson to be learnt from this story?



STORY V

The Jewelled Arrow.


CHAPTER I


In the city of Vardhamana in India there lived a powerful king named
Vira-Bhuja, who, as was the custom in his native land, had many wives,
each of whom had several sons. Of all his wives this king loved best
the one named Guna-Vara, and of all his sons her youngest-born, called