In the fete, for a ticket costing eight annas you stood a chance of acquiring a variety of articles-pin-cushions, sewing machines, cameras or even a road engine. One evening they drew ticket number 1005, and I happened to own the other half of the ticket They declared that I became the owner of a road engine! Don't ask me how a road engine came to be included among the prizes. It is more than I can tell you. I looked stunned. People gathered round and gazed at me as if were some curious animal. 'Fancy anyone becoming the owner of a road engine!' some persons muttered and giggled.
The writer was stunned because

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B