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Story :-

Raja Krishna Chandra often heard his courtiers complaining that Gopal loved to make everyone appear like a fool. There was hardly anyone in the

court who had not at one time or another tried to get their backs at Gopal but always ended up looking like utter idiots. The Raja knew that this was true. It often rankled him that without uttering a single objectionable word the jester had made him feel silly more than once. So one day Krishna Chandra decided to amuse himself by baiting Gopal. "Ah, Gopal, I have had a strange dream", announced the Raja the next day as soon as he saw Gopal in the court. And everyone fell silent in order to listen to the king's dream.

"I dreamt Gopal, you and I were going for a walk in the morning and we reached a place where there were two pools. One of the pools was filled with kheer et made of rich thick milk and the other full of horibly smelly dung. Suddenly, I fell into the milky pool and you into rotting muck." On hearing this, the courtiers burst out laughing.

They obviously relished ush the thought of the jester covered from head to toe in muck.Gopal stood unruffled, waiting for everyone to finish laughing. And

then surprised everyone by telling the king with great humility that he had exactly the same dream. The king looked questioningly at Gopal and asked, "You mean everything happened in your dream just the way they happened in mine?" "Yes, Maharaj", replied Gopal, "only your dream finished earlier. My dream continued a little longer. l saw both of us coming out of the pool.

You covered in kheer and I covered in muck and then I saw that you were licking me and I was licking you in order to clean each other." The courtiers almost choeked when they heard this. But unfortunately

for everyone, the king was in a good mood and did not mind his legs being pulled a little. In fact he had a good laugh at Gopal's wit.

(Adapted from "Gopal Bhand, the Jester from Bengal" by Rupa

Gupta, Publication Division, 1994, Reprint 2006)