Children at Work — ENGLISH (NCERT) STD 8 — Question

After reading this moving story we find that Velu is more or less a smart boy. He is just eleven years old. But still he runs away from his village, without even having money. For two days he ate nothing except some peanuts and a piece of jaggery. He walked upto Kanur from his village for most of the first day. Then he himself catches the train to Chennai and travels without ticket successfully upto Chennai. At Chennai platform he meets Jaya, a ragpicker. He is smart enough to decide to do the work of a ragpicker until one day he finds a better job.