Puppy

Ten years ago our neighbours were transferred to another tea estate. They left on Christmas Day and gave us a puppy. My sister wrapped it in a cloth and gave it a full jug of milk to drink. I did not like it because it was ugly.
I came to Colombo soon after and didn't return for two or three months. When I arrived back a big fat dog came out of the house and started barking at me. Amazingly the small puppy had become a big dog although he was still called "Puppy."
Other dogs looked very small in comparison to him. He was a very peculiar dog.
One day when I set off to catch the bus for Colombo with my bags. As I was walking I heard something coming after me. I looked back, it was Puppy. He jumped all over me with his muddy paws, howled and licked me all over. I tried to chase him away but he wouldn't go. When the bus came he leapt aboard and wanted to come with me. I was so embarrassed! Everyone was looking at me. I had to get off the bus and was only saved by my sister who arrived with a chain and with the greatest difficulty carried him off home.
My family said that Puppy used to eat small goats and would return home with a full tummy and sleep it off for hours on end. He we went anywhere by car he would chase after us and returning home would refuse to eat for days.
This is not the only story about Puppy--there are many others. But the saddest part is that Puppy is not with us today he died three years ago of distemper.
VAGIRA

The Lunatic and the Doctor

One day a doctor is walking around the wards in a psychiatric hospital. He saw a lunatic running at him with a mango in one hand and a knife in the other. The doctor thought the lunatic was going to kill him so he ran.
After a few minutes the doctor came to the end of a corridor with no doors or windows...he was trapped. He prayed and closed his eyes.
After a moment the lunatic rushed up to the doctor and said:
"Oh, doctor! I'm exhausted. I never thought it would be so difficult to offer you a piece of mango!"
ISHARA

The Tramp

A tramp was sleeping on a park bench late at night. A man and woman were walking past. One of them tapped him on the shoulder and asked,
"Excuse me! what is the time?"
The tramp was very annoyed at being woken up.
"I don't know!" he said angrily. "I haven't got a watch" and he went back to sleep.

Sometime later another man was passing. He woke the tramp up and said
"I'm sorry to bother you' but I wonder if you could tell me what the time is it".
Again the tramp said he didn't know.

By this time he was very fed up, and he asked himself:
"How come these insane people don't let me sleep?".
He started thinking for a while and..
"Ah...I've a nice idea!"
Then he got a pen and a piece of peaper and wrote:
I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE TIME IS on it.
"There you go!" he said and he kept the paper on the bench and went back to sleep.

After an hour later, a policeman was passing. He read the sign, woke the tramp up and said:
"It's 2.30 sir"
BANURA

Our Little Secret!

This happened when I was in grade II. There was a small nelli tree behind the classroom. When the nelli fruit comes we usually pluck and eat it. As there weasn't any fruit close to the ground we had to get them from the upper branches using a long stick.
One day when we couldn't find a long stick we thought we would shake the tree to get the fruit down. We grabbed a large branch but it snapped off and we hurt ourselves.
As we did all of this without permission we had to hide the evidence. We threw leaves into the dustbin and we hid the branch inside a cupboard. Until now no one knows what damage we did. Up until now we were safe it was our secret.
ISHARA