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A crow sitting on a tree at a distance flew down on the carcass of a huge bull. Even as
the dog was barking at it, the crow started eating the flesh of the dead animal. It took no

notice of the dog. After sometime it flew away.

In the afternoon, two men came that way in a small boat. The dog barked gratefully and
wagged his tail. He wanted to get into the boat. ‘See, there is a dog,’ said one of them. The
dog moaned. ‘Let it be there,’ said the other. The dog opened his mouth and groaned. He
tried to jump into the boat. But the boat moved off. The dog groaned once again. One of
the boatmen turned back.

‘Ayyo.’

The cry came not from

the boatman. It was from
the dog.

There was nothing to be
heard after that except
the sounds of the waves.
No one turned back

thereafter. Only the dog
stayed, looking at the
boat till it disappeared.
He climbed on to
the roof once again,
growling as if bidding

farewell to the world. Perhaps he was trying
to say that never again he would love a human being!

The night was terrible with rain and storm. The roof started moving in the waves. The
dog almost fell off the rooftop twice. Then there appeared a long
head from under the water. It was that of a crocodile. The dog Would you
started barking in great fear. There was also the sound of fowls have come Let’s connect
wailing together from somewhere nearby. forward to save the

‘Where is the dog barking from? Haven’t the people here gone dog? Why or why not?
away?’ Someone said from a boat carrying hay, coconuts and value helping others
bananas. ‘Oh! The dog is going to leap down.’ And then the dog leapt down from the
rooftop. One of the men got frightened and fell into the water, but the other man pulled
him out.

By then the dog had swum back to the roof and continued barking. The thieves took away

all the bananas in the plot. ‘You will be sorry for this later,’ they said to wailing: crying in a
the dog who was barking madly. Then they loaded the boat with more high-pitched sound

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