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Articles: Short Stories | Bed Time Stories
- Mr. VNS Raju Inapakutiki
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7. The Breathing Stone!
(Characters prescribed by Krishna: Crocodiles and squirrels – narrated in the night of 1 Feb. ‘05)
In their search for a viable place that offers food continuously a family of squirrels migrated to the lakeside and started living there on the Palm trees. The favourite place for the kids in this squirrels family is the Palm tree that leans towards the lake almost touching the surface of the water.
On the second day of their moving to the lakeside place and living on the palm trees, the baby squirrels found a long rocklike thing floating on the water near the palm tree that leaned towards the water.
Without a second thought the three baby squirrels jumped onto the long rocklike thing floating on the water- half submerged. The squirrels ran all across and they found an up and down movement in the middle of the thing. The squirrels stood there for sometime to experience the movement and felt happy. With call of their mother the squirrels jumped back to the palm tree and went away.
No sooner did they see their mom, they competed with each other to narrate their unique experience. One baby squirrel said “ Mom it is a breathing stone floating on the wall.
Next day it was noon, the crocodiles in the lake had their lunch. Three of them swam across the lake and reached the other side of the lake where the squirrels live. The baby squirrels came out with their parents in amazement to find the three long black rocklike bodies floating on the water near the palm tree. The baby squirrels jumped on to one of the crocodiles with merriment and soon followed their parents.
All the squirrels experienced the up & down movement to their joy and returned to their home after an hour or so.
In the morning they came out to check whether these three crocodiles look like long black rocks floating on the water. They did not find any. As they were preparing for their lunch they saw their old friend Dr.Dove their long time friend. All the squirrels shared with the Pigeon their experiences of playing on the breathing black long rock that floats on the lake near the leaning palm tree. They had compelled Dr.Dove to have lunch with them. Soon after having the lunch the baby squirrels lead Dr.Dove to the leaning palm tree. They found – this time – six black long bodies floating on water.
The squirrels were lost at the sight of this. Dr.Dove understood the reason for their exhilaration. It took some time to dissuade them to continue playing on the floating crocodiles in the water.
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