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The grandmother was a great animal lover. When she lived in village, she regularly fed the village stray dogs. She never forgot to carry stale chapatis for them when she accompanied the author to the village temple.

When she went to the city to live with her son, she started feeding sparrows. She sat in the verandah to feed the sparrows. She broke the bread into little bits, and threw them to the birds. Hundreds of sparrows collected round her chirping incessantly. A few of the birds sat on her legs, others on her shoulders. Some even sat on her head; but she never ever shooed them away.

The sparrows mourned the grandmother’s death and appeared to be grief-stricken. They sat around her and did not chirrup at all. Everyone felt sorry for the birds and the author’s mother fetched some bread for them. She broke it into little crumbs, the way his grandmother used to, and threw it to them. The sparrows took no notice of the bread. When they carried the grandmother’s corpse off, they flew away quietly.