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The Boalia Beel, not very far from our college, is a good haunt of game birds in our district. A few days ago I took two of my hostel-mates with me and went to the Beel on a shooting excursion. My hostel-mates were expert swimmers. We hired a boat and started for the Beel in the small hours of the night. We reached there before sunrise. I had my gun with me. We had also articles of food with us. A little while after sunrise we landed from the boat.  The shores of the Beel were covered with thick of reeds. We very cautiously made our way through the reeds and soon saw some flock of teals floating on water. A little a way ahead very tactfully and shot at a flock of teals. Some of the birds flew away but there rest was fluttering on water. My hostel-mates at once jumped into water, caught hold of almost all of them and carried them to the boat. Them we had our breakfast and started on our return journey. We reached our hostel amidst shouts of joy. It was really an exciting excursion.

Man has an unquenchable thirst for knowledge. He is never satisfied with what he has known a seen. He wants to know and see more and more.  This curiosity to know more coupled with his indomitable spirit of adventure has inspired him to undertake and carry out difficult and dangerous tasks. In the fields of science and technology man has already achieved want, which was once inconceivable. After the conquest of the moon, the scientists have turned their eyes to the Mars, which is our next-door neighbor in the kingdom of the planets. The scientists have launched the most massive research program in the history of space exploration with their Viking Mission to Mars. The Russian scientists were able to land a capsule in 1971 and then another in 1974. The first one transmitted Television signals only for twenty-seconds before it became dead. Following this mission American scientists continued their mission. Then on September 3, 1996 Viking-11 landed on the rock-strewn utopia plain just below the north polar cap of Mars. The most important purpose of July 4, 1997 the path Finder of this mission very successfully landed on the Mars. The Robot “ Sojourn’’ is working well and the press report that mankind within the next 15 years will land on the Mars. 

There is no denying the fact that Ekusher Boi-Malla is of great significance and utility to us. In the land of many litterateurs. “ Boi-mala/ Book Fair “ plays a very important role. Similarly, in the aromatic land of Bangladesh the Ekusher Boi-mala plays an utmost significant fore. With the help of it we are guided by the spirit of our Language Movement. Ekush signifies the 21^st of February. In this day of 1952 some of our valiant youths dedicated their lives to uphold our mother tongue, Bangla, as state language. Though this is a month of our sorrow, we bear respect and noble pride with profundity. To keep the venerable month everlasting in our mind “ Ekusher Boi-mala” is held in the month of February on the premises of Bangla Academy. There is no room for doubt that “ Ekusher Boi-mala” is the biggest book-fair in the country. to create more readers of books, book-fairs are also held in all district headquarters. These are immensely popularized in our country. Publishers come forth with their new publication. Many eminent writers come to Bangla Academy stalls and their admirers are thronged around them. Some autograph hunters beg autographs from their favorite writers. Recitation  programs and seminars are also   taken place on them open stage. In addition to these, there are snake where young students sit gossiping. The readers buy books after their choices. Finally, We can say that Ekusher Boi-mala/Book fair is serving better for the cultural welfare of our country.

The night had far advanced. Sitting beside the bed of the sleeping mother, the boy Bayazid was preparing his lesson. Suddenly his mother raised her head and said, “Give a little water, my darling. I am very thirsty.” Bayazid went to fetch water from the pitcher but he found it empty. Finding no other way he thought of fetching water from the neighboring house, and accordingly went out. But the whole locality  was then fast asleep. Whom would the boy awake at that late hour of night? He remembered of the fountain on the other end of the locality. Then went to bring water from that fountain. When he returned he found that his mother was a sleep. He did not a wake his mother for the disturbing of his mother’s sleep but he stood up by his mother’s bed. All their night he was awakening. It was the ultimate realization of serving the parents.