THE BUBBLING WELL ROAD ( Study Material)

 The chenab falls into the indus about fifteen miles above the hamlet of chachuran.Five miles to the west of the hamlet lies the bubbling well road and the house of the priest of arthi-goth.Fivemiles to the west of chachuran,there is a patch of ten to twenty feet high jungle grass in a plot of three to four square miles.In the middle of this plot hides the priest.
The priest is one -eyed man with the impress of two copper coins burnt between his brows. some people say that in the day Runjit sing, this old
man must have been tortured for his mischief. Only British Government can control him now.
 A pig with foot-long teeth enters the grass patch. the narrator goes into the patch to shoot it for the sake of honour.He carries a gun.He is accompained by his dog, Mr Wardle.The dog slips in and out of the grass clumps, but the narrator finds it hard to go through the grass, creeps around the well an after walking through the grass for sometime, comes to a good patch .  This patch takes him to the priest`s hut. The priest is afaried of the white coloured narrator . Being tried, he goes to sleep on a bed stead outside the priest`s hut. After waking up, he asks the

priest runs back into the thick grass. The villagers throw stones at him if they see him. The narrator walks to the village of Arthi-goth for a drink.
  The narrator learns from the villagers of Arthi-goth that the patch of grass is full of devils and ghosts. They are all in the service of the priest. Men, women an childrean who enter the grass never return . The priest uses their lives for his mitchcraft .Before leaving the narrator tries to burn the grass, but in to green .He decides to come back in summer with a bundel of newspapers and a match-box and put an end to the mystery of the Bubbling Well Road.