Footprints ch09 Bholi - CBSE Revision Notes

CBSE Class 10 English Language and Literature
Revision Notes
Chapter 9
Bholi

A Girl Sulekha called Bholi youngest daughter of number dar Ramlal.
An Accident made her a backward child (10month old) and had pox marks on body (when 2 years old).
She spokes first time (when 5 year old) and stammered.
Parents did not care for her.
Primary school opened (She was 7 year old).
People did not want to marry educated girl.
But she was sent to the school.
Meeting with a kind hearted lady teacher.
The teacher encouraged her to speak.
She hoped for a new life.
Years passed village became a small town.
Bishamber nath a rich grocer was ready to marry Bholi.
Marriage ceremony with, pomp and slender Bishmbhar Nath.
He saw the pox marks on Bholi’s face.
Demanded for thousands to marry her in the name of dowry.
Ramlal requested him to marry his daughter and gave him the money with great difficulty.
But now Bholi refused to marry him.
First time she did not stammer and said “I can marry with a man of the age same to my father, who is even a lame but can’t marry with a greedy man and conceptive coward just for the sake of your izzat.
People whispered.
Bholi answered them smartly.
Ramlal was tensed.
Bholi asked him to not to worry about her & said “ I will teach in the school and serve both of you (parents) in your old age.”