![]() ![]() Kiwi would carry chappals, brooms and the like from around the house to the grove nearby and chew them up into bits. ![]() I’ve noticed that dogs often start stealing at some point in their lives. But, if I hadn’t held him responsible for it in some way, he would never have moved from where he slept. I knew he had nothing to do with the chappal’s disappearance. But he had never done such a thing, and he wouldn’t have started at his age. Maara could have stolen anything from around the house at anytime. He’d been blissfully asleep until just then and hated having to look for it. Do thieves steal just one chappal and leave the other one behind? It’s because of this wretched puppy that I get accused of being a thief.’ He cursed Kiwi and started looking for the missing chappal. You raise a thief in your house and suspect me instead! Look, one of the chappals is here. But now that you have started to quarrel, I wonder if you have actually stolen them. Did I say you had stolen the chappals? I only wondered if you had seen them while working near the front yard. How would it have helped me to steal them?’ ‘Would you have stolen them if they had fit you?’ His aged body had become so frail that I could hear his voice but not see him. ![]() Maara, who had fallen asleep on a bed of fallen leaves under a jackfruit tree, sat up. ![]()
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