Binya belonged to the mountains, to this part of the Himalayas known as Garhwal.ĭark forests and lonely hilltops held no terrors for her. The cows preferred having Binya with them, because she let them wander.īijju pulled them by their tails if they went too far. Sometimes her brother Bijju went with her, but these days he was busy preparing for his exams and didn’t have time to help with the cows.īinya liked being on her own, and sometimes she allowed the cows to lead her into some distant valley, and then they would all be late coming home. If the cows didn’t come home at the right time, Binya would be sent to fetch them. They were fond of wandering off on their own, down to the stream or into the pine forest, and sometimes they came back by themselves and sometimes they stayed away-almost deliberately, it seemed to Binya. The other cow, which was white, was called Gori, meaning Fair One. She scrambled barefoot over the rocks, ran over the short summer grass, up and over the brow of the hill, all the time calling “Neelu, Neelu!” Neelu-Blue-was the name of the blue-grey cow.
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