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08: The Blue Bead by Norah Burke
- #4Which thoughts never troubled her?Ans : Sibia was marked only for work since birth. She had started husking the corn and gathering sticks, putting the dung to dry, cooked and weeded, and carried and fetched the water and cut the grass for fodder, when she was just a toddler. She accompanied her mother to get the paper grass to sell it to the agent who was rich enough to sit on silk cushions smoking a hookah. But these things never troubled her.