Ch 1
Father's Help
R.k.Narayan
Lying , in bed , swami realized with a shudder that it was Monday morning. It looked as though only a moment ago it was Friday. Already Monday was here. He hope he did not have to go to school.
At 9 o'clock , Swaminathan wailed , ,, I have a headache .
Mother generously suggested that swami my stay at home . At 9.30 , when he ought to have been in the school prayer hall, swami was lying on the bench in mother room
Father asked him, "Have you no School "today?
"Headache, Swami replied.
"Nonsense! Dress up and go"
"Headache"!
"Loaf about less on Sunday and you will be without a headache or Monday"
Swami new how stick his father could be. So he change his tactics . "I canno't go so late to the class .