Essays

Introduction. All houses in a town have not water laps. The municipalities of the town make arrangements to supply water for those who have no private laps. For this purpose every street has one or two laps. They are generally at the ends of the steel. They are meant for those who need them. They are not private properly. Scene before the running of the tap. Long before the taps are turned lo run, men, women and children come to them with pails. Pitchers or buckets in their hands. They place their pots about the la]' those who come first place their pots near to the lap. Some of them go back to finish work in their houses. Others remain silting there. They fear they will lose their turn,

Scene during the time when tap is running. Here is a description of scene at the tap in a street. On hearing the hissing sound of the tap everybody becomes active. Some of them who remain silting push others to gel water. This leads lo exchange of' hot words. After few minutes of hot words arc followed by blows and elbows. These municipal laps are means of creating bad blood between neigh hours. When some were lighting and breaking one another's head, the lap ran uselessly. Others dared not to put their pots under taps. They got angry but they are helpless. An old man cried ".Stop fighting, you foolish people". But none hears his words. Everybody thinks that the tap will run out after some lime and they will have to go without water. People, therefore, separate the men who are righting. They request them to fill their pots with water. At last the quarrel comes to an end. Scene when the tap has run out. During the quarrel some people fill their buckets 'with water for drinking, washing and bathing. As the lime of the running of the lap is very short, some persons have to return home without a drop of water. They wish to crush the heads of quarrelsome people. But they do nothing.

Conclusion. Besides [he men and women, there comes a group of young men to the lap. They need no water. They come there with bad motives every morning and evening. They sit on the platform of the houses near the tap. They indulge in loose talk. They pass unbecoming remarks. Sometimes they address the lady by name. They tease young in very insulting way. Who can check them? They are goondas. They can threat everybody. Ladies hear their remarks.