Page 1 : Poets & Pa ncakes, Going Places, , The Third Level, , Evans Tries an O-Level, , Memories of Childhood, , Aunt Jennifer's Tigers, , , , , , , , , , to capture any golden goose that happened to pass, by. So the next morning, when the headhunter saw, , this flock of geese approaching he was very excited, to see their golden leader. He immediately went, , oo 7 about setting up a snare amongst the water lilies, was the wife of King Bahuputtaka. One night, the — ,, , and lotuses, as he that the leader would, Queen had a dream of a beautiful golden goose | definitely be the first t®8fight. The whole flock came, that spoke with great wisdom, almost as if he was |, , flying down in one mighty swoop and as expected, a sage. She told her husband that she desperately, , | _ tt was the King‘s foot that touched the water first,, wanted to see a bird just like the one in her dream. He was SSE could not escape. Seeing this,, _ So the King asked his ministers to find out all that —, , ? the other geese flew into a panic. But none had the, they could about a bird such as this. He was told coumge a ae eir king and so flew back to, that such a bird did exist but was extremely rare Mount Cittacuta for safety. All except one. He was, and difficult to find. They advised him to build a_ the chief captain, Sumukha. King Dhatrattha, beautiful lake on the outskirts of Benaras so that entreated him to fly to safety too, as he would surely, he may attract such a rare and lovely creature to be captured if he stayed by his side. But Sumukha, reside there. In this way, the queen might have her replied that he would never desert his master in the, , wish. Towards the north, on Mount Cittakuta, there — face of danger and would either try to save him or, lived about ninety thousand wild geese headed by — die by his side. At this point the hunter approached, a beautiful golden goose called King Dhatarattha. and as Sumukha saw him he decided to appeal to, He got to hear of this exquisite lake surrounded by hig compassion. The huntér asked the golden goose, water lilies and lotuses floating on the suriace. The ~ how come he had not noticed the trap that was, King had invited all the birds to come and live on ‘got, The golden goose-replied that when one‘s time, it; promising that none of them would ever be was up it was no use to struggle against what was, harmed. Com was scattered on a daily basis in fated and one must just accept it. The huntsmian, order to attract the birds. So a couple of geese went was very impressed with his grace and wisdom. He. —, up to their King, the golden goose and told him, ,, , , , , , , , , n. - goose was his King, best friend and master and, k that he could never desert him even at the cost of —, his own life. Hearing this, the hunter realised that _