THE SKELETON is a translation of Rabindranath Tagore's short story 'Samasyapuran' written in 1892. Read on to know more... In the room next to the one in which we boys used to sleep, there hung a human skeleton. In the night it would rattle in the breeze which played about its bones. In the day these bones were rattled by us. We were taking lessons in osteology from a student in the Campbell Medical School, for our guardians were determined to make us masters of all the sciences. How far they succeeded we need not tell those who know...
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