ohan was 8 years old. He lived alone in his small hut.Unfortunately he was a bonded labour. Poor boy had to work for maximum twelve hours.His only ambition was to go to school& become a rich man in future.

Once , while he was working he heard two men describing about a school which was very far. He, then, quitely listened to the conversation of those two men. He then decided to go to that school. It was about 50 kilometers away from his hut.He took some money with him & set off for his long and tiresome journey.After 3 hours , he reached to the school which named after a saint. He went straight to the head master room.But , his impression got down infront of hie head master because of his filthy clothes.The head master name was K.K. Joseph. When he saw Mohan he was not in a mood to gave him admission.But, when Mohan told him how eager was he to be as a pupil in his school.

Mr. Joseph was very large hearted, he did'nt want to break Mohan's little heart.As Mohan was poor he could not be able to pay the school fees. And Mr. Joseph asked him to do a little deed for him. He asked him to broom a room which was very dirty. Mohan thought that this was his I.Q test. Then what? he started working & after 2hrs he called the master.

Mr. Joseph came & his mouth hung in amazement. The boy cleaned it so nicely that there was no dust particle inside it. And impressed by his ability to do his work Mr. Joseph gave him admission in his school.

AND THAT BOY WAS THE MOST HAPPIEST SOUL ON THE EARTH...

The End

Story by: vithika, age 13, India

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