By: Shreyas, 4D
Robodo woke up very late on Friday. His mother was busy with her work. Robodo’s father was a trader who owned a house with a courtyard. Robodo’s sister, on the other hand, was so quick that she was already dressed up. As Robodo came into his sister’s room, he said, surprised,
“Oh, sister! You are so quick, you are already done, it seems like I have to be alert!” his sister chuckled.
“Lazy big brother, do you not know when to shower?” Robodo felt a bit ashamed, but he went to take a bath.

Robodo finished bathing but it was just the beginning. His mother was in the kitchen where she had left the bags of wheat, but as she searched more and more, and she came to know that they were not there! Robodo, meanwhile, was playing with a parrot that he had trained. The two of them had a good relationship. He had trained it so well, all by himself, that he could even understand human language!
His mother came out of the kitchen and said to him,
“Robodo can you go to the nearest farm and get me a bag of wheat and in exchange give him these coconuts?” Robodo never refused his mother’s orders, so he took a bullock cart and began his journey. His mother did not give him his parrot, but he still went. Robodo approached a farm; took the wheat; gave them the coconuts and went back to his bullock cart. Robodo then felt a little sleepy, so he thought that he should have a short nap and he did.
The wind blew hard; the bell in the cart rang and Robodo’s cart moved because of that. The bullocks started moving somewhere with the cart, unnoticed by Robodo. Soon the cart ended up in a forest. Robodo woke up; he called for help, but no one responded, and he was in the forest for more than an hour.
His parrot was smart and soon wondered why her master had not yet returned. It knew everything that Robodo’s had said. It went for a search for a long time and found a farm. It saw footprints and followed. It came to a green, luscious forest and there, it heard someone shouting. The parrot went closer and saw her master, Robodo.
Robodo was very happy to see her.
“Yes, I’m safe!” Robodo said. The parrot led the way, and soon, they returned home. That night, Robodo said to himself,
“If I had not ever trained my parrot, or if I had never had a parrot, I would have been stranded in that forest for the rest of my life!” Saying that, he slept early that night in relief.

The end.