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Even an ordinary everyday activity may lead to an insight into human nature. A picnic had been arranged by the department. Everyone was supposed to join it. I, being older than a good many, was ill at ease at he thought of joining a bunch of callow youngsters dreaming of some soft and sweet company on he way to the hill resort.

But the morning of the adventure found the boy in me climbing the first ascent-rather steep and hard, to the applause of all Adams and Eves in the troop.

Half way through we started finding snow all around us, but, the boy in me by then was once again lost into oblivion. I found myself lagging behind and often falling down on the soft snow due to soft foam rubber soles of my shoes.

A laughing stock I was. But soon I found strong, healthy arms supporting me. I pleaded, "Let me go, I'll not be able to make it," but they would not let me.

They were the arms of two hill folks who as people, had been described as withdrawn, selfish and aloof by my friends from the plains.