The narrator in Ruskin Bond's short story The Eyes Have It "" took a conceal the fact that he was without eyesight.

 THE EYES HAVE IT

"..........I faced it, making a pretense of sty studying the landscape."--What did the speaker pretend? Why did he do so? What did he actually do instead of studying the landscape outside?

The narrator in Ruskin Bond's short story The Eyes Have It "" took a conceal the fact that he was without eyesight. great effort to That is why he took his seat in a dark corner in the train compartment. He talked in such a way that nobody could guess his blindness. But suddenly the girl, his co-passenger asked him about the happenings outside the window. He feared that the girl would now easily came to know that he was blind. But the girl. being herself blind, could not understand anything. Then she asked him to look out of the window.

As he was blind, his eyes were only sensitive to light and darkness. He could hear the panting of the engine, the mumble of the wheels and in his inner vision he could bee the telegraph pasts flashing by.