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Disappointed when a ship approaches without matching the red sails they know, they return to helping their mother at her vegetable stall. A trader’s wife guides them to ask sailors at the jetty, setting the story’s next search for news.","Sailing Home  \nAuthor: Subhadra Sen Gupta Illustrator: Tapas Guha  \nEnglish Story Book  \nSailing Home  \nAuthor: Subhadra Sen Gupta  \nIllustrator: Tapas Guha Reformatted for Bloom By: Cara Ediger Pratham Books  \nEnglish  \nSailing Home  \nAuthor: Subhadra Sen Gupta  \nIllustrator: Tapas Guha  \nCopyright © 2005, Pratham Books  \nYou are free to make commercial use of this work. You may adapt and add to this work. You must keep the copyright and credits for authors, illustrators, etc.  \nBasava and his sister Sundari sat on the sand watching  \nthe sun rise over the sea. Slowly, the sky turned from grey to blue and the edges of the clouds became an orange colour. They sat staring at the horizon – that line  \nin the distance where the bowl of the sky seemed to curve down to meet the sea.  \nTheir father was a sailor who had sailed away on a merchant ship many months ago. The children were eagerly waiting for him to come back home. So, every morning at sunrise, they came and waited by the beach  \nhoping to see the tall red sails of their father’s ship rise  \nslowly above the horizon. The children had seen many ships come and go because they lived in Mamallapuram,  \nwhich was a busy port. The ships came from many distant lands carrying exciting cargo – chests of silk and  \npottery, jars full of wine, perfumes and even horses. Their father’s ship had sailed out carrying logs of cedar  \nand sandalwood, and bags of spices, rice and ghee.  \n“It’s been so many months,” Sundari said sadly,“Appa never been away for so long.”  \n“Look, a ship is coming!” said Sundari excitedly,“But I can’t see the sails.” As they watched eagerly, a ship appeared on the horizon. It was a small dot that slowly  \ngrew larger as it came closer. First, they saw the sails filling out with the wind. Then the high masts and the wooden bow rose into view.  \n“No,” said Basava, disappointed,“Appa’s ship has red sails with a flying eagle painted on them. This one has black and green sails.”  \nThey felt disappointed and decided to go home. They had work to do—they had to help their mother at her vegetable stall in the market. Their father was often away from home and after a while all the money he left behind would get over. That is why their mother sold vegetables, so that they had enough to eat.  \nSundari enjoyed working at the vegetable stall. The market was such an interesting place! Often their customers were sailors from different lands – some with  \npale skins and narrow tilted eyes and some with dark skins and curly hair. They wore odd clothes and jewellery  \nand spoke in languages Sundari could not understand at  \nll  \nThis morning, as Basava was laying out bundles of spinach and cabbage, one of their regular customers came to buy vegetables. She was the wife of a trader who often sent spices to other lands by ship. She knew all about the ships coming and going from Mamallapuram.  \nAs she picked through the radishes and beans, the trader’s wife asked,“Any news of your father?”Sundari shook her head sadly.“Why don’t you go and ask at the jetty where all the ships are anchored?” she said.  \n“Ask what?” Basava leaned forward eagerly.  \n“Ask the sailors if they have seen your father’s ship on their way to Mamallapuram. My husband does that quite often when his ships are late.” That  \nafternoon,the  \nchildren headed towards the main jetty. They went through the market and took the street going towards the sea. They went past the warehouses where the merchants kept the goods meant to be loaded into ships.  \nIn one warehouse, labourers were unloading bags of pepper and coriander seeds. 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