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I am sure Gobinda Babu, the superintendent, would have shown more respect for my effort on so serious a subject. In singing I was Srikantha Babu's favorite pupil. He had taught me a song: "No more of Vraja for me," and would drag me about to everyone's rooms and get me to sing it to them.
I have many more such dream-given stories and other writings as well. This dream episode I worked into the annals of King Gobinda Manikya of Tipperah and made out of it a little serial story, Rajarshi, for the Balaka. Those were days of utter freedom from care. Nothing in particular seemed to be anxious to express itself through my life or writings.
From that time on, he would now and then ask me to complete a quatrain by adding a couplet of my own to one given by him. Gobinda Babu of our school was very dark, and short and fat. He was the Superintendent. He sat, in his black suit, with his account books, in an office room on the second storey. We were all afraid of him, for he was the rod-bearing judge.
If one hears to-day that some young lady does not write poems one feels sceptical. Poetry now sprouts long before the highest Bengali class is reached; so that no modern Gobinda Babu would have taken any notice of the poetic exploit I have recounted. Srikantha Babu At this time I was blessed with a hearer the like of whom I shall never get again.
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