![]() ![]() The trouble was, it was a very busy road, linking one city to another, and on it flowed a constant stream of cars, trucks, motorcycles, bicycles, vans, even the occasional steamroller. And any snail would prefer lettuce to cabbage. And just across a busy road-his international boundary-was a field full of delicious looking lettuce. It was just that the cabbage patch in which he and his fellow snails had been living did not appeal to him any more. Not that Samuel had any global ambitions. Birds and butterflies recognized no man-made borders, so why should snails? They’d been around longer than humans and were likely to be around even longer. Some considered him to be the bad snail in the family, but that was because he did not listen to his elders and liked to do things in his own way, trying out new plants or venturing into forbidden places. Samuel was a snail of some individuality. Read the complete short story ‘Crossing the Road’, that has been excerpted from the book.Dazzling, comic, and gripping, this book is the latest masterpiece f rom India’s most beloved writer.The book starts with the title story, ‘Song of the Forest’, which has never been published before, and includes extraordinary pieces of fiction like ‘A Man Called Brain’, ‘Rhododendrons in the Mist’, and ‘Miracle at Happy Bazaar’. ![]() ![]() The book “Song of the Forest: Tales From Here, There and Everywhere” by Ruskin Bond brings together the very best tales he has written in the twenty-first century. ![]()
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