An Old Notebook
(unique)

Part-2

written by
Zach Preston &
Nightingale Eminem

title by
Quinn Holmes
edited by
Jackson Snyder




Fifty years back my father was the headmaster of a high school in a small agricultural village of two thousand people on the banks of the holy river Godavari. It was just before his retirement. The village was full of greenery everywhere—green fields, green forests, ranges of high hills full of thick forests of evergreen vegetation. We lived in a one of the three or four very neat government houses at the far end of the village constructed for the teachers. Our house was quite spacious and had thick bright white walls and had nice tiled roofs and had three or four rooms. It had a small front garden full of vegetable plants and flowering bushes.
A neat path led from our front door to the gate at the middle of a long barbed wire fencing. Flowering creepers formed a beautiful arch over the gate. There were low compound walls on the sides of each house but only common long barbed wire fencing on the front side with nice little wooden gates. At the back of the house there was a far bigger seemingly endless backyard. It was separated from the endless farm lands on the other side by a high wall on three sides of the backyard. There was a sky-high silk -cotton tree which had huge red flowers in flowering season. Father was a gardening enthusiast and so we had lots of vegetable plants, oilseed plants and...