Sunday, October 4, 2009

TALE TOLD BY VINOD RAPHAEL



Thus spake Vinod in a tiny room stifled with pungent odors:

“This event took place in a nearby college of fame and repute. Postgraduate students of chemistry, with the active assistance of a teacher, manufactured the lethal poison potassium cyanide. Since guinea pigs were not available, they settled for a guinea dog. A wandering mongrel was baited and kept ready. They kneaded the poison with rice and fed the dog. Last Lunch, a student said. Cocksure of the instant death, they counted seconds. To everyone’s surprise, the dog only squirmed a bit and bolted. That is possible, you know. Chemicals react differently in animals and humans. Still there is no doubt of death as the poison is too powerful, assured the teacher stroking his aspiring goatee. The dog must have retreated to the nearby woods to breath its last in peace. Such things have occurred before, you know. Perhaps we will have to confirm its death by the stench in a few days. Well, to cut a long story short, a strange sight greeted their sulfuric eyes next noon. The dog was back, grinning from ear to ear, in the pink of health. It was furiously waging its tail to thank yesterday’s food and asked with the impeccable manners of a college lecturer: “Would you mind you give me one more meal?”
(The photo of the dog is given above)

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