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BAHADUR : I saw a strange creature today on the banyan tree near the great Buffalo

Lake in the forest. It was still like a stone. It looked so frightening. It
was blood-red in colour.
SHYAMLAL : Oh yes, I know about this creature. Last week, one of my master’s

horses had gone missing. I went to the Buffalo Lake looking for it.
There I saw this strange creature. But it was green, not red as you
said.

BAHADUR : [Puzzled] But how can that be? It looked all the more terrible because
of its red colour.
RAJARAM : Very well my friends, you are both right except about one thing.

SHYAMLAL : [Eagerly] What is that?

RAJARAM : About the colour of the creature.

BAHADUR : Then what colour do you think it is?

RAJARAM : The strange creature in the jungle has a special bluish colour. I have
seen it quite many times while collecting herbs from the forest.
SHYAMLAL : [Laughing] This is very funny. Why don’t you ask your master, the
doctor, to give you some medicine for madness? [Looking at Bahadur]

What do you say Bahadur?
BAHADUR : Yes . . . if the medicine is bitter, let me know Rajaram. I’ll give you

some honey to mix it with.

RAJARAM : [Angrily] Shut up you fools! It is you two who need medicine, for
blindness!

Rajaram and Shyamlal shout at each other. Shyamlal gets angry.

SHYAMLAL : I’ll break your head you quack!

Shyamlal pulls Rajaram by the collar.

BAHADUR : [Pushing Rajaram and Shyamlal apart] Calm down, Shyamlal and
Rajaram. Let’s not fight over little things. Why can’t we go to the
banyan tree together and see what colour the creature is?
RAJARAM : Yes, that sounds better.

SHYAMLAL : Let’s go straight away then.

bluish : almost blue in colour quack : a person who pretends to
herbs : sweet-smelling plants used in know about medicines

medicine or food straight away : at once
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