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The Banana Tree

By now, it was 4.30 pm. Sreenath kept looking up at the
bananas. “When would they fall?” he thought. There were
so many of them. “It can happen any minute,” he
convinced himself, so he waited some more. And waited.

By the time it was almost dark, Sreenath could hardly see
the bananas. He wondered if they fell at night. He was
very hungry. But he was not tall enough to reach the
bananas. So, he kept sitting. The bananas refused to fall.

By 7.00 pm, his stomach was on fire. He had eaten nothing
since lunch. He could not sit any longer. He got up and
went inside the house.

Veena aunty, her friends and his mother were all drinking
tea. Sreenath had completely forgotten they were at home.
“What Sreenath! You take this long to get buttermilk, is
it?” his mother asked.

Sreenath was so hungry he did not even hear her. “Please
give me something to eat, mother! I am very hungry.”

Sreenath’s mother heard his voice and quickly gave him a
banana from the kitchen. “Here…eat this,” she said.
Sreenath gobbled the banana up. “Where is this banana
from, mummy? Is it from the banana tree?” he asked.

“No, it’s from the market. The bananas on the tree outside
are not fully ripe yet,” she said.

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