An Unpleasant Dream
This year I have been taking part in games and neglected my studies. As the annual examination was drawing near, I became a little worried. I would keep sitting late into the night with books in front of me, but found it hard to concentrate. Thoughts of failure kept worrying me all the time. Last night, I went to sleep with some such thoughts in my mind. J dreamt that the results of the examination were declared and I had failed. My father refused to talk to me. I had not even the courage to go up to him and feel sorry for my neglect of studies. | was so unhappy that I decided to leave my home. I went to the railway station and boarded a train with no ticket or penny in my pocket. As soon as the train started, a ticket-checker came in. Finding me without a ticket, he twisted my ear. It pained me so much that I gave a loud cry. Just then I woke up. I found my mother standing by my side. She asked me what had happened. I could only say, ‘Nothing’, to her. Never before I had such an unpleasant dream