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Friday, 11 October 2013

Foolish Alligator

                                     Foolish Alligator

Cheeku and meeku were best friends. They were famous in the jungle for their intelligence. One day, they went to the bank of the river to drink water. There stood a peepal tree whose roots were roots were spread into the river.

After quenching their thirst both friends sat under the tree and started talking.
The river was home to many deadly alligators. When one of them saw Cheeku and Meeku his mouth started watering.
"Today is a wonderful chance. I must not let the 2 rabbits go away."
He quietly swam under the water and caught their legs. "I have finally caught you      today. Where will you run now? I will eat you for dinner."
Cheeku and meeku knew that they were in danger. But they were brave and thought that getting frightened won`t help them. They had faith on their brainpower.
Cheeku suddenly laughed loudly and said, "Meeku how foolish is this alligator. It seems he has not know the difference between a tree`s root and the leg of a rabbit.
"He probably does not know that what he is holding is the tree`s root not our leg."
Hearing Cheeku the alligator felt embarrassed and quickly left their leg to rush for the roots of peepal.
Immediately, they jumped out of the water and taking a position far away, started making fun of the alligator.
The alligator realised his foolishness, "How stupid I am. Believing them to be correct I left my prey."
Murmuring to himself, he decided to take revenge.
At night, the alligator came out of the river and crawled towards Cheeku and Meeku`s burrow.
Both were not in their burrows then.
"let them come. I will not leave them now," said alligator.  He waited outside their burrow, pretending as if he was dead.
At midnight, when Cheeku   and Meeku returned home, they terrified at seeing an alligator outside their house.
"Cheeku, it seems this is same alligator whom we fooled that day," said Meeku whispering to Cheeku.
"He has surely come to take revenge on us and lying here pretending to be dead," Cheeku explained to Meeku is gestures and both stood at a distance from outside their burrow.
"It may be possible that he is actually dead," said cheeku. Standing at a distance from their house, cheeku said, "How this water animal has come here and died?"
Replying back quickly, Meek said, "No, he is not dead, rather he is pretending to e dead."
"How can you say that?" Cheeku asked.
"The alligator`s mouth opens up if he dies. If this one had died, his mouth would have opened," said Meeku.
With closed eyes, the alligator was listening to the talks of Cheeku and meeku. To show that he is dead, he quickly opened his mouth. Seeing him open his mouth both the friends laughed and ran away from there. The alligator kept lying there with his mouth open for a long time.
On opening his eyes and not finding anyone around him, he again realised his foolishness. He understood that it was not easy to make fool of the 2 friends.
He decided that he will never run behind the 2 rabbits. He walked back towards the river with a heavy heart.  ©
                                                                                            by -dkushwaha700™ 

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