The Agonies of a Drummer   ‘The fair of this world is very short to live; Morning is not known when night has gone.’ These lyrics of a famous song, at that time, may not have reached the ears of many children, but the sound of the beating of the drum had reached them. With the echo of- the drummer arrived.... the drummer arrived, the silence of the entire street turned into an uproar. All the big and small children on the street started running towards him. Those who were older had reached there first. The girls were angry at