leopard only in his school text book; he is yet to see the animal in flesh and blood that
his grandfather faced so valiantly in his youth.
‘You will see a leopard soon,’ the old man assures his grandson.
Suman’s mother plucks tea leaves and very often Suman accompanies with her to
the tea gardens. He likes to run along the rows of tea plants and climb trees in the tea
garden. One day her mother went to pick leaves in the tea garden very near the forest
with a group of women. Suman followed her mother and as usual climbed a tree to have
good view of the tea garden and people working in it. But sitting on the branch of the
tree, he saw some movement in the plants in one corner of tea garden near the forest.
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