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 Just I am here but my mind is dwelling towards past, so let me share what I am thinking now. ,  I just couldn't control my mind and it drifted into my childhood. Once there was one family, who had turtle in their well. My brother and I, we heard about this from a passer-by who told us that "There was a turtle in MR. Das’s well”. Then both of us without getting permission from our elders, we walked towards the house with hope; very soon we were going to see a turtle. We had read in our book a story called "Rabbit and turtle”, so we were longing to see it. That house was situated one kilometer far from my house; despite that we didn't bothered about distance.

                              After reaching this unknown person’s house, we requested them to show their small lovely creature. They made excused and told us, now they were sleeping. We were so heartbroken, after putting our best efforts; we thought that no problems if they were not willing to show, their turtle. We made a quick decision that we didn't like to give up our idea and by hook or crook, we had to see the turtle, so as there were lot of trees near their home. We climbed over tree and we were staring from there to the well by an eagle eyes. We waited till afternoon and when all members of the house were inside. Thereafter we slowly reached near the well with tiptoes but we weren't able to see anything inside the well. Then abruptly, an idea came in my mind and I wanted to take out that small sweet creature by rope and bucket. Due to lack of knowledge and practicing, instead of taking out turtle by bucket, the rope slipped and the bucket dropped, making a big splashing sound and soon all house members came out from room. Now my younger brother started crying on the top of his voice. My heart also felt timid but I didn't lose my confident and slowly whispered to my brother’s ear that Please don’t cry because now we will sure get success to get (awake) it up. He brought a smile on his face. I also felt relief after pacifying him.

                            Mr. Das who was erupting with anger wanted to punish us. He wanted to know our father’s name, after knowing our father’s name, he started talking with us politely and dropped us to our home. We normally used to stay inside the big huge home surrounded with big fancying therefore sometimes people were coming out of our house for attestation of their documents for getting a gazetted officer sign. So sometimes he also came to take sign from my father for his documents. But on reaching house our elders punished us mercilessly also. Soon, We totally forgot about that baby turtle .One day when we came back from school, we found that man was sitting in our shop and waiting for us. He wanted to take us in his house so as to show us the turtle from the well. Being a child mind we forgot all past incident our punishment .We were sent to that fellow home along with our servant. We were very happy and got dressed in new clothes on the pretext that Mr. Turtle might like seeing us in new clothes. In this way we happily finished our journey of visiting a turtle in stranger’s house.