Work makes holidays delightful - Russell

"work makes holidays delightful"...RUSSELL

 END OF TERM

Holidays become delightful when they come after a long period of hard work. Children enjoy them most because their class work is usually tedious. There is a lot of fun in weekly holidays. Every child feels the thrill of long holidays like summer vacation. DAVID DAICHESS, in "End of Term", recalls the joys of holidays and the pangs of unfulfilled wishes.

As a schoolboy, the writer had to get up early in the morning. Although he enjoyed the class work yet the ling hours were pressing. He used to wait for the weekend eagerly Friday night was the best time of the week. Saturday night with full of the threat of Monday morning.

Sometimes, there were unexpected respites. The students were given a half holiday to watch a football match or because of some unforeseen crisis or celebration. But these were very rare. Once a term they would get an additional holiday on Monday. This made the weekend pleasantly long. "Skating holiday" had its own charm. But these breaks were nothing as compared to Christmas and Easter holidays. It was painful that these holidays were reduced from fifteen to ten days only.

But 'the' holidays were summer vacation. They were of two month duration. The whole year moved round these holidays. They joy of the writer new no bounds at their star. While leaving for home he had a strange sensation for these vacation, yet unspoiled.

In the end, there is an element of pathos. Wishes did not come true in this life - the writer knew that. His poor parents could not buy him a tricycle in his childhood. Later this desired transformed into a bicycle. However, he bought his first bicycle with the prize money he had won in the university. He was twently one then. In his childhood he also longed for sweets and ice-cream with empty pockets. He would stand at the ice-cream corner in the hope of getting one free of charge.

Despairingly this never happened. But summer holidays never disappointed him.

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