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2. Summary – The Eyes Have It
The Eyes Have It is also known as The Girl on the Train & The Eyes Are Not
There. This is a short story by Ruskin Bond that was originally published
in Contemporary Indian English Stories.
Up to Rohana, the narrator was alone in the compartment. A girl
boarded towards the compartment . Her parents bid her goodbye at
the station and were anxious about her well-being and advised her a lot
regarding where to keep her belongings, not to lean out of the windows
and to avoid talking to strangers.
Once the train left the station, the narrator started a conversation
asking if she too was going to Dehra. The voice startled her as she
thought her to be alone in the compartment. The girl told him that she
was going to Saharanpur where her aunt would come to take her home.
She also envied the narrator as the hills of Mussoorie, where he was
headed to, presented a lovely sight in October (the present month).

3. After some more chit-chats, the narrator told her,
quite daringly (as he was blind and couldn't have
known her face for sure) that she had an
interesting face. She was happy at this and
replied that it was indeed a welcome deviation
from the often repeated phrase: "You have a
pretty face".
Soon it was time for the girl to bid goodbye as
the train arrived at her destination. After her
departure, a man entered the compartment and
apologized, as a matter of fact, for not being as
attractive a traveling companion as his
predecessor. When the narrator asked him if the
girl had her hair long or short, he replied that he
had noticed only her eyes, which were beautiful
but of no use, as she was completely blind.
Ruskin Bond

4. Ruskin Bond
Ruskin Bond was Born on 19 May 1934 in
Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh, India. His present age is 77.
His main occupations were Writer, Poet, Novelist. He is an
Indian. His genres was contemporary. The main subjects
on which he wrote are
Autobiographical
Semi-autobiographical
Fiction
Non-fiction
Novella writer
Novels
Children.
He came to the literature firm in 1951 and he is still
working in it at present.

5. Summary - One summer night
"One Summer Night" is a short, grotesque satire. A man named Henry
Armstrong had been buried but was not dead. (This was common in the
1800's, as doctors could not distinguish a coma from death.)
Two medical students were looking for a fresh cadaver to dissect. The
cemetery had a black caretaker named Jess who had a sideline of selling
corpses of the recently deceased. Armstrong hears noises as his grave is
dug up. As his casket is lifted out and opened by Jess so the students can
take the body, he sits up, frightening the medical students who run away.
The next morning the students were still in shock but goes into their
dissection room to find that Jess had smashed Henry Armstrong in the
head with a spade, killing him, and he wants to be paid for the corpse
who is really dead now and lying naked on their(student’s) dissection
table.
Ambrose Bierce

6. Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce was born on June 24, 1842
in Horse Cave Creek, Meigs County, Ohio,
United States. He was an American. His was
a
Short-story writer
Novelist
Journalist
Poet
Essayist
Critic
He died in Mexico on January, 1914.

7. Summary - Yoked with an Unbeliever
It is a short story by Rudyard Kipling. It was first published in the Civil and Military Gazette on
December 7, 1886, and in book form in the first Indian edition of Plain Tales from the Hills in
1888. It also appears in subsequent editions of that collection.
The story is one of Kipling's reflections on relations between the English settlers,
representing the British Raj, and the native population. As so often, there is no clear-cut
schematic version of the rights and wrongs - as Kipling himself says in the last sentence of
the story, "Which is manifestly unfair."
The 'unfairness' is that a worthless man is loved by two women, for no reason apparent to
outside observers. Phil Garron is an Englishman who has been sent out "to 'tea'". (This was
a form of disgrace for the ruling class in Britain: those who failed, like Garron, in the home
country were sometimes sent out 'to the Colonies' to try to redeem themselves.) Garron,
who "was really going to reform all his slack, shiftless ways" leaves Agnes Laiter
heartbroken behind him. He is a man of weak character, but he settles into decent (if not
exceptional, as he believes) competence - and as he works, forgets Agnes, other than as a
daydream. Her family bring pressure on her, successfully, to marry another (a 'better
prospect' than Garron): she writes to Garron to tell him, saying "she would never know a
happy moment all the rest of her life. Which was a true prophecy." (Kipling here shows his
deft touch with at least seemingly mature psychological insight, and deft narrative detail.)
Garron replies with a carefully drafted letter, which ordinary men might have called "the
thoroughly mean and selfish work of a thoroughly mean and selfish man": but it makes
Agnes cry; and Garron (in Kipling's ironic phrase) "felt every word he had written for at least
two days and a half." He takes up shortly after with a Hill-woman called Dunmaya, the
daughter of a senior soldier among the troops of the Native Army and marries her.

8. Agnes, now widowed, finds herself in Bombay and
seeks Garron out. She finds him "very little
altered, and Dunmaya was very nice to her." The
shame, and unfairness, is first, that Phil, who
really is not worth thinking of twice, was and is
loved by Dunmaya, and more than loved by
Agnes", and second, that "Dunmaya [the 'mere'
native] is making a decent man of him [the
'white man']; and he will ultimately be saved
from perdition by her training”.
Rudyard Kipling

9. Rudyard Kipling
 Joseph Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865 -
January 18, 1936) was a British author and poet, born
in India. He is best known for the book of children's
tales The Jungle Book (1894), the Indian spy
novel Kim (1901), the poems "Gunga Din"(1892),
and "If-" (1895), as well as many of his short stories.
 The height of Kipling's popularity was the first decade of
the 20th century: in 1907, he was awarded the Nobel
Prize for Literature and still remains its youngest-ever
recipient, as well as the first English language writer to
receive the prize.
 In his own lifetime he was primarily regarded as a poet,
and was offered a knighthood and the post of British
poet laureate, though he turned them both down.

10. Works by Rudyard Kipling
 Indian Tales
 The Jungle Book
 The Man who Would be King
 The Second Jungle Book

11. Summary - The Bordeaux diligence
 In summary, a Frenchman meets some men in a Paris street who
ask him, as a favour, to ask a woman in the street what time the
Bordeaux Diligence (a stagecoach) starts: though puzzled, he
does so. She, apparently disturbed, tells him to ask a gendarme;
the gendarme is shocked and arrests him; the magistrate he is
brought before is outraged and has him put in 'the dark cell'; the
trial judge is outraged, gets an immediate 'guilty' verdict from the
jury, and sentences him to 7 years in a prison colony; on hearing
his story, his fellow prisoners shun him, and the Governer treats
him harshly.
 When he is finally released and returns to Paris he encounters the
woman, now old and ill, in the street again, and asks her for an
explanation, which she agrees to give if he comes to her home at
midnight. When he arrives she is lying on her bed, and tells him to
lean over her because her voice is faint. He does so, she bites his
ear and falls back dead.
Lord Halifax