Chapter 27 Marbles

Playing marbles were one of Fabian's activities in the days of old.Initially he had to play with cement marbles which were big,slightly more than half an inch in diameter.When Fabian had a lot of them filling both pockets,it sagged down wards dragging his pants down,thus exposing everything below the waist.

Teacher seeing that yelled at Fabian,"Why are your pants down?".All in the class laughed and applauded loudly.How embarrassing.Fortunately it was a boy school but only the teacher was a woman."You come here".
Pulling his pants up and clinking to awkwardly to it, Fabian went in front of the class."Unload all your marbles onto this tin",giving him a tin.

Fabian quietly put all his marbles into that tin provided.After he had done that he was penalized and made to stand at the corner of the class.Poor Fabian was punished until recess time.When school was over the teacher refused to hand over all the marbles to Fabian.

However,that teacher told,"You must come with a container tomorrow to collect back those marbles,failing which you will not have them back.Dutifully Fabian came with a container for those marbles and he got back all his marbles.

Later glass marbles were introduced they were half the size of cemented marbles.obviously very much lighter to carry in pockets.Now Fabian had no problems and Fabian always had pocket full of them.Many of which won from classmates.

Likewise due to his carelessness many a times the marbles were littered around the floor.The teacher said,Why?You again Fabian dropping marbles every where disturbing the class.So the teacher said,"Bring all you marbles here and keep all on my table".

"As a reminder to you,all these marbles will be confiscated,and I will not you have them back",said the teacher."Yes teacher",replied Fabian as he returned to his seat.

Later a small type of glass marbles were introduced.This smaller marbles like the bigger ones were tinted with colors within making them very beautiful.With it introduction playing with marbles also slowly faded away.

Nowadays these marbles adorned the bottom of aquarium.Children today do not play with marbles any more,they were attracted to computer games and computerized gadgets.