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From Behind the StorieS

Aayesha has not scored well in her mathematics examination, as usual. She is sitting

under a tree in her colony park as she doesn’t feel like going back home.

Aayesha: (speaking to herself) I can never practise mathematics again. I can never

score well. I don’t seem to understand anything. If I have to add numbers,
I have to carry them over. Why can’t numbers stay at one place? Why

do I have to carry them? Now I have to study multiplication also! This
is so tough!

While she is thinking about her bad result, she notices a row of ants passing by

her feet. She quietly watches them climb over a pebble. They walk towards a drain
surrounding the flower bed. Some ants walk away from the flower bed but some
others team up to float on water and manage to cross the drain.

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