Unforgettable Character
I have seen some very strange persons in my life. The strangest or most unusual of them is "Uncle Sam." Some people call him Samu Chacha. I do not know whether people call him Uncle Sam for fun or just because he himself likes to be called so.
The fact is that this person is quite old, married, but still childless. He could have been father of half a dozen children. Perhaps the absence of children has made him feel that he is young enough for a second marriage. He sometimes tells his friends that he may have a child some years later. "But then, Chacha, you will be too old, and so also your wife" someone remarks. Here comes the reply from Chacha: "Old, old, old. I will ban this word just as a political party is banned. I will ban any person who calls me like that, you see I am still young."
Then Chacha stands up and begins walking up and down the room, pulls out his pipe and proudly smokes it like a third-class Englishman. At times, he takes out the pipe from the mouth, looks into it closely, and then strikes it hard against the heel of hard shoe. Once he struck it against his head and cried hard. Sleeping children woke up and began crying in anger (began cursing him indeed).
Samu Chacha is a proud old man. He tells others that he is the ablest member of his profession. "No one is my equal" is the sentence that he often repeats. When people say that so many people have gone above him in his own profession, he says:
I don't look up to them, I look down at those who are below me, and they are Thousands and thousands, and thousands..."
Samu hates all those who in any way disagree with him. He thinks he is always right, and others wrong when they look the other way. In fact, people have begun hing him. Some openly say that he is burning in the hell of his own creation (making).
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