The Cherry Tree by Ruskin Bond

Author:Ruskin Bond
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9788184757095
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2012-10-08T06:00:00+00:00

The cherry tree had no intention of dying.

By the time summer came round again, it had sent out several new shoots with tender green leaves. Rakesh had grown taller, too. He was eight now, a sturdy boy with curly black hair and deep black eyes. ‘Blackberry eyes,’ Grandfather called them. They were like the wild blackberries growing on the hillside.

The berries ripened in July. Rakesh collected a bagful of them, and Grandfather made blackberry jam—three jars, which lasted through the summer.

Another monsoon came and went, and during it Rakesh went home to his village, to help his father and mother with the ploughing and sowing and planting. He was thinner but stronger when he came back to Grandfather’s house at the end of the rains. He found that the cherry tree had grown another foot. It was now up to his chest.

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