Story | A Ready Wit Boy

One sunny morning a boy of eleven years old was tending cattle by the side of a railway line. Suddenly he noticed a small railway slipper which was about to collapse. A little while later, he remembered that a mail train was supposed to cross in about half an hour. He thought that something should be done. Otherwise a serious accident might occur. He was thinking what to do He was looking here and there but found none. Suddenly he remembered that if he showed red signal, the train might be stopped. At once he took off his shirt and hanged it with a stick. Then he began to weave it in the air. The driver saw it from far away and stopped the train slowly. He came to the boy and asked what happened. The boy took him to the railway slipper. Seeing it the driver thanked him and said that he had saved them. The next day the news was published in different newspapers. The government and many institutions awarded him for his ready wit.