~Eagam Khaling~
One full moon night, a fully drunken poet visited a lake. There, he managed to get a traditional boat to row around the lake. His thin dog was barking at him from the land. Hearing the dog barking in that way, he shouted from the boat, “Why barking? Damn it! I am not going to die, this early!”
After rowing a little ahead, he remembered from the word ‘die’ that once a poet had died trying to catch the moon on a lake’s water. He got a little angry on thinking of that poet. But after a while, he also found the moon mesmerically smiling and teasing him on the lake’s water. The moon ghostlily enchanted him. He, with all of his heart, loved to touch the moon, even only for once. He tried but could not control himself. He suddenly jumped down on the moon and effortlessly came out swimming. Then he said with a sarcastic gesture, looking towards the lake, with an attitude, “Bro’, you had to swim!” But the dog barked much at him after seeing him in such a wet condition.
Next day, again fully drunk, he brought a female dog for his dog and kept them free in a room for hours. But they did nothing except smelling each other. The poet was so stunned that his mind began to doubt. Thus he checked the dog’s sex organ but that was also a female. He immediately walked away to search for a male dog.
Eagam Khaling,
Darjeeling,
734209.
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