Champaklal Speaks

Careful

You know those small chit pads from France with perforated sheets. Once Mother wanted a sheet, and she tore out one from the pad, but it was not properly torn. Amrita tried, again not properly.

Mother: “Oh Amrita, you also have done the same thing!”

A: “It was caught by a wire, so I could not do it properly.”

Then I took the pad, tore a sheet and gave it to the Mother.

Mother: “Champaklal is careful.”

She wrote something on that chit, looked round and said:

“This paper is to be kept by one who can remember and who can keep it carefully.”

Then, turning to me, she said: “Champaklal, you keep this.”