A Coolie's Daring Act
One day, I was sitting on a bench on a railway platform. A train was coming at full speed. A child tried to cross the rails. He wanted to go to the other side. The driver of the train saw him. He gave a whistle. He applied his brakes also. But he couldn't stop the train so quickly. A railway coolie shouted at the child to run fast. The child was so afraid that he stood dazed between the rails. In the twinkling of an eye, the coolie ran to the child and pushed him to the other side. The child was saved. But the train had run over the poor coolie's legs. He was at the point of death!