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Mukul said in a hushed voice, ‘Hey Tony, see they’ve kept their tools beside

that bush. Let’s hide them away.’

‘Yes! That’s a wonderful idea,’ whispered Mukul.

After the discussion the men came back to get their tools. But there was

none.

‘Oh! where is my axe?’ shouted one.

‘Who took the saw from here?’ asked another.

‘G . . . g . . . ghosts!’ said a third one in a shivering voice.

‘Shut up you fools and search for the axes!’ shouted their leader.

They found no trace of their tools and decided to come back the next day.

Mukul and Tony found their way home the next morning. They told their
parents about the events of the previous night. The people of Kantar were
alarmed and outraged to hear about the wicked smugglers. It became clear

to them why there had been a disastrous landslip in the valley the previous
year.

The men came back to the woods with new tools that night. But before they

could begin their job, people of the town surrounded them.

‘You cannot cut these trees. They belong to all the people of the valley.’

‘Who are you to say that? We earn our livelihood by selling wood,’ said one
of the men.

Mr Narayan, a well-known journalist of Kantar, said, ‘Do you know what
will happen if you cut down trees? These trees keep our air clean, bring

hushed : quiet landslip : a large mass of earth and

shivering : shaking with fear rocks sliding down a slope
alarmed : shocked valley : a lowland area between

outraged : angry and shocked hills or mountains

wicked : evil journalist : a person who writes for
newspapers
smugglers : people who take away
things illegally from one

place to another
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