Bareilly had a sugar factory and naturally a large quantity of sugar cane from the nearby fields found its way to Bareilly in the cane crushing season by the goods trains. These, if I remember correctly, were brought in closed as well as open wagons. Well, an open wagon full of juicy sugarcanes (apparently unprotected) was irresistible bait for the children’s brigade. We would swoop down on them and try to pull out as much sugarcane as we could handle and........ bolt.
There was a practical problem though. Our tiny hands were unable to reach the high wagons. But then there were elders ready to lend us a helping hand,”helping” themselves in the process.
Eating fresh, juicy and “stolen” sugarcane using bare hands and teeth was an incomparable BLISS!
'Bachapan ke din bhi kya din the !
ReplyDeleteI too did steal and had lots of juicy sugar canes. I used to get ready energy for playing all day all 365 days. I used to run after trucks whenever they were on an up hill at low speed and jump from behind and catch the cane. Three of us used to collect whenever we needed energy.Lo we were ready for new games 24/7, 365 days!
ReplyDeleteThose innocent childhood days are indeed memorable!
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