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The Farmhouse

The farm house was huge and filled with antiques. The drawing cum dining hall was large space. The kitchen was attached to dining place.Upstairs there was a narrow corridor, on one side of which was the large children's bedroom with three beds, one for each. And on the other side a small congested store-room stuffed with used old materials.

For the adults, it may be a simple store room but for the children, especially Max and Amy it was a special attraction.It was a storehouse of unimagined treasures. The other parts of the house were dull and cheerless as compared to it. Whenever they came to the farm house for their holidays, Amy and Max would spend most of their time searching for objects of fun and interest in the storeroom. It gave them immense pleasure when they found out certain old objects that they haven't seen earlier and for that whole they they kept rambling about it.

For instance, when they came here last two years ago and Amy and Max as usual spent their time finding for some object of interest, they found an old radio and guess what? It was still working but the sound coming out of it was harsh and broken. And when they heard that noise coming out of it, it appeared to them as the voice of some sort of alien speaking in an unknown tongue. They thought it was a kind of cellphone to connect to the aliens. They rushed to show it to their parents with exhilaration, only to make their parents burst into laughter. Then Dad explained to them what it really was and how it worked. But still they had a big doubt that they heard the aliens speak and dad might be hiding that from them so that they don't get scared.