👮The policeman and the strange boots👮

The policeman and the strange boots

One day, a colony watchman was making his rounds.Suddenly, he noticed something black and shiny under a tree. Moving closer, he saw that it was a pair of high boots, quite new. 'Now, who could have left these here?' the watchman wondered. But there was nobody around to ask. It was afternoon and everyone was indoors. So, the watchman took the pair of boots to the nearest police station.

"You may leave them here," said Mr. Kumar, the policeman, pointing to the floor. He was busy writing reports and did not look at the boots carefully.

After some time, Mr. Kumar put his pen down and decided to have his lunch. He had taken off his boots because it was very hot day. As he bent down to wear his boots, he found two pairs lying side by side. 'Oh! which one is mine they both look alike!' Mr. Kumar thought. It did not really matter which pair of boots Mr. Kumar put on, because they were of the same size. He put his feet into the boots that were kept on the left. From that moment onwards, strange things began to happen to him. As Mr. Kumar opened his lunch box, he gazed out of the window and sighed, "Ah! How lucky those birds are, flying wherever they please! How I wish, I were a little sparrow!"As soon as he said these words, the policeman found himself changed into a sparrow!

'Oh!' he thought. 'I must be dreaming!' He flew out of the window, on to the grass and began to look for worms - quite a different lunch from the one that he had brought. But the very next moment, he was surrounded by darkness. A naughty boy had flung a tablecloth over him an held him tightly.

"You naughty boy! Let me go. I am a policeman" shouted Mr. Kumar angrily. But, because he was then a bird, the only sound the boy heard was, "Tweet, Tweet!"

The boy sold the sparrow to another boy who carried his mother.

"What a waste of money!" the boy's mother said. "This is only a sparrow, a very common bird. Anyway, you may keep it for day in that empty cage near the window.

At least, Polly will be happy."

Polly was a large parrot kept in a big cage.

The only words she knew were, "Now, let us be men.'This she kept saying all day long.

Next to Polly's cage was another bird's cage, a canary's. When she saw how unhappy the sparrow was, she said in bird language, "Fly away! Quick! The boy has forgotten to lock your cage. The window is open!Fly away!Fly Away!"

The sparrow quickly flew away straight to the police station. But how was he to become Mr. Kumar, the policeman again?

Then the sparrow remembered Polly's words and said them aloud, "Now let us be men." All at once, the sparrow became Mr. Kumar again, sitting in his chair at the police station!

Can you guess what  was the first thing he did? He quickly took off the wrong boots, locked them in a cupboard and wore his old boots again