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    THE BLUE BEAD 2nd Part

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    Sibia was gathering grass by a river when she witnessed a crocodile attack and drag a woman into the water. Sibia bravely fought off the crocodile by stabbing it in the eye with her hayfork, saving the woman. After the ordeal, Sibia found a beautiful blue glass bead in the river, which she kept as a treasure. The bead represented beauty emerging from danger for the young Sibia.

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    THE BLUE BEAD 2nd Part

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    Sibia was gathering grass by a river when she witnessed a crocodile attack and drag a woman into the water. Sibia bravely fought off the crocodile by stabbing it in the eye with her hayfork, saving the woman. After the ordeal, Sibia found a beautiful blue glass bead in the river, which she kept as a treasure. The bead represented beauty emerging from danger for the young Sibia.

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    Sibia was gathering grass by a river when she witnessed a crocodile attack and drag a woman into the water. Sibia bravely fought off the crocodile by stabbing it in the eye with her hayfork, saving the woman. After the ordeal, Sibia found a beautiful blue glass bead in the river, which she kept as a treasure. The bead represented beauty emerging from danger for the young Sibia.

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    THE BLUE BEAD 2nd Part

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    Sibia was gathering grass by a river when she witnessed a crocodile attack and drag a woman into the water. Sibia bravely fought off the crocodile by stabbing it in the eye with her hayfork, saving the woman. After the ordeal, Sibia found a beautiful blue glass bead in the river, which she kept as a treasure. The bead represented beauty emerging from danger for the young Sibia.

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    THE BLUE BEAD

    21] Sibia lingered to check on the little clay cups and was alone when she
    reached the stepping stones

    A] The sunset struck up the gorge pink into ultraviolet shadows

    B] river water almost invisible-with no reflection

    C] Sibia exhausted- muscles stretched and aching

    D] packed dry grass on her head; hayfork squeaked in the grass-dug into
    her collar bone

    E] sari bunched up as a pad on her head

    F] halfway through put the load down and rested- leaning on the fork

    22] The attack

    A] gujar woman came with two brass pots

    B] walked on the stepping stones to get clear water without sand

    C] crocodile within a yard

    D] crocodile lunged at her –water slushing off him- livid jaws yawning-
    teeth flashing- slashed at her leg

    E] woman screamed- dropped the brass pots-recoiled from the


    crocodile- but its jaws closed on her leg

    F] the woman clung on to the log jammed between two boulders

    G] crocodile pulled at her leg- threshing his mighty tail

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    H] tried to pull her into the waters and carry her off into the deeps of the
    pool

    I] blood everywhere

    23] SIBIA FOUGHT THE CROCODILE

    A] came leaping like a mountain goat


    B] did not care about the big gap in between- as if on wings

    C] when Sibia reached the woman – the crocodiles eyes rolled on to Sibia

    D]one slap of the tail would kill her

    E] He threshed his tail- water went 20 feet up and fell like a chain

    F] on hesitation on Sibia’s part- incidents like this commonplace like


    thorn bush in the jungles

    G] She aimed at the reptile’s eyes with hayfork

    H] used all her strength- one prong went into an eye and other prong
    scratched his horny cheeks

    I] crocodile in convulsions – half his lizard body out of water

    J] crashed back- exploding the water- in an uproar of bloody foam he


    disappeared

    K] WOULD DIE- death will not be known for days- stomach blown with
    gas will float him- found upside down among the logs in timber boom

    L] Sibia got her arms round the fainting woman- dragged her out of the
    water- stopped her wounds with sand- bound it with a rag ; helped her
    to gujar encampment- where men made a litter[ crude stretcher] and

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    carried her to someone for treatment 24] Sibia went back for her
    grass-sickle & fork

    25] Luckily fork lying in the river – not carried away

    26] When she bent down to pick the hayfork- saw the blue bead

    27] Not blue in the dark- white-blue

    28] Its shape wobbling in the moving water- refraction

    29] Grabbed it somehow- perfect for her necklace- the reflection of


    sunset shuffled inside the glass like gold-dust
    30] Twisted it into the top of her skirt against her tummy- so she would
    know if it burst through the poor cloth and fell

    31] The dangers she faced when she stepped out of water

    A] stepped on wriggle marks of snakes- danger of snakes

    B] malaria mosquitoes

    C] a morose [depressed] old makna elephant – the tuskless one – which


    came to the river

    32] Anxious mother came down from the village in search of Sibia

    33] Sibia ecstatic- did not tell her mother anything about the crocodile
    when she thought something must have happened to her

    34] For Sibia something did happen to her- she found the blue bead for
    her necklace- this glass was a miracle for the child- the danger she
    faced was irrelevant-

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