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What do you like best about your school? Tell your classmates about, I must have been about seven, , when my father left Porbandar for, Rajkot to become a member of the, Rajasthanik Court. There I was put, toa primary school, and I can well, recollect those days, including the, names and other particulars of the, teachers who taught me. As at, Porbandar, so here, there is hardly, , , , anything to note about my studies. I, could only have been a mediocre, student. From this school, I went to, the suburban school and then to the, High School, having already reached, my twelfth year. I do not remember, having ever told a lie during this short, , , , a, , period, either to my teachers or to, my school-mates. | used to be very, shy and avoided all company. My, books and my lessons were my sole, , companions. To be at school at the, stroke of the hour and to run back home as soon as the school closed-that was my, , daily habit. | literally ran back, because | could not bear to talk to anybody. I was, , , , , even afraid lest, , , , , , , , andhiji was alw, "Two incidents belonging to this period have always clung to my memory. As a, rule [ had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books. The daily lessons had, to be done, because | disliked being taken to task by my teacher as much as I disliked, deceiving him. Therefore | would do the lessons, but often without my mind on them., Thus when even the lessons could not be done properly, there was of course no, question of any extra reading. But somehow my eyes fell on a book purcbaggey my, father, It was Shravana Pitribhakti Nataka (a play about Shravana's devotion to his, parents). I read it with intense interest. There came to our place, about the same time,, , , , -41