Madol Duwa

The whole village was agog to the next day because everyone wanted to be able to find the boys who had broken the watchman’s house. Some people thought that it must have been a gang of boys who came from another village. But the watchman’s mother said that two of the robbers looked like Upali and Dangadasa . But nobody said anything about Jinna. But Upali’s parents didn’t punish them because they didn’t know for sure whether they were the boys who broke the watchman’s house. Upali’s parents began to keep an eye on Upali and his friends. Upali and his friends didn’t do any mischievous things, but continued to play their usual games such as “Kalli”. About 2-3 weeks passed. People forgot about that house breaking incidence. And the watchman was no longer angry with them. Upali’s step mother stopped scolding him. And they began to play in the jungle again. One evening, when they were playing in the jungle, someone suggested that “we will be Veddahs today”. They were wearing leaves as t...

  Upali Giniwelle's mother dies when he was about 7 years old. He cried because everyone was doing so in the funeral. When his aunt carried him to the garden a woman stroked his head and said “ Ane the motherless thing ” Sometime later one day his father brought his step mother and the crowd of relatives to his house by a fleet of horse carriages. He didn’t know who is a step mother because he was a little boy yet. When he was a little older from the gossiping of women he could know who is a step mother. He understood that a year later from mother’s death, his father got married for the second time. He realized that his step mother is not like his mother. She didn’t care about him in the same way, even though she was much more loving and attentive to his father, than his mother had been. The women sometimes told him that his step mother was a miser. His step mother was very careful with housekeeping money that his father gave her. and she scolded the servants all the time and eve...