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Bando and the Water Demon

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Story told by
Indira Ananthakrishnan

Illustrations
Sabu Sarasan

Editor : Reena I. Puri

ISBN 978-93-87304-51-2
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Bando the monkey was worried. He peered
down from his tree, making little chattering “Our pond is drying up,” Bando replied.
sounds. “We won’t have water to drink.”
“What is the matter, Bando?” asked his “Don’t worry,” Bindi said. “When it rains the
friend, Bindi. pond will fill up.”
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But it did not rain and the sun
became hotter and hotter.
The water in the pond dried up slowly,
till there was only a bit of wet mud
left at the bottom. Very soon
even that disappeared,
leaving the mud hard
and cracked.

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“Even if I dig the mud “I really do want some water,” cried
there is no water,” said a baby deer.
Danti the elephant, “This can’t go on,” said Bando. “We must
scraping the bed of the find another pond.”
pond with his trunk.

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So Bando set off to look
for water.
He swung from tree to tree,
holding on to the branches
with his long arms and legs.
Keela Kingfisher flew along
with him.
“I need to catch some fish,”
she said. “I am hungry and
thirsty.”
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Bando travelled to the edge of the forest.
In front of him was a big hill
and at the bottom of the hill
was a sparkling blue lake!
“Yippee!” yelled Bando.
“Wowzeee!” shouted Keela.
They rushed happily towards the lake.
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Suddenly, a whirring sound filled the air.
Out of the lake rose a whirling, snarling
watery shape.
“Who dares to come to my lake?” screamed
a horrible voice.

tall,
It was a

scary
Water Demon!

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The demon caught Bando and Keela in his
watery arms and whirled them round and
round.

Swirling, whirling, flowing, gushing,

Springing up, then downward rushing,
Swaying left, then to the right,
The Water Demon holds them tight.

“Oh please . . . glub. . . leave us . . .

glub!” cried Bando.
“Only if you promise not to
come here again,” screeched the
Water Demon.
“We promise!” Bando and Keela wept.

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The Water Demon dropped them on some
prickly bushes and splashed away, laughing.
Suddenly, a small voice spoke up near by.
“If you are thirsty you have to wait till the
sun sets.”
Looking at Bando and Keela was a grey-
brown squirrel. She hopped closer and
whispered, “That’s when the Water Demon
goes to sleep at the bottom of the lake.”

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“But the animals cannot come at night to
drink water,” said Bando.
“I cannot fish at night,” said Keela.
“Can we chase the demon away from here?”
asked Bando.
“No,” said the squirrel. “He gets his power
from the water, and no one can get him to
leave the water.”

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Bando thought hard and then
smiled. “Then, maybe we can
make the water leave the
demon,” he said, feeling very
excited.
“Huh!” exclaimed
Keela. “How are you
going to do that?”

“Come on, Keela” said Bando, waving

goodbye to the squirrel. “I have a plan!”
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Bando called all the animals and
told them of his clever plan.
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“We need to make a long pipe,” he told them.
“The elephants must go and bring as many
bamboo stems as they can.”
The elephants went off to do as they
were told.
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Bando then asked the monkeys to get long
strips of banana fibre.
“We will make a long pipe with all the
bamboo stems, by tying them to one
another with banana fibre,” he explained.

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That night all the animals worked hard to
make the pipe.
When they had finished, one end of the pipe
lay in the dry pond and the other, in the
Water Demon’s pond!

S
n
oo
or
“Now Danti, you have to suck hard with your t!
trunk and pull the water through,” said Bando.
Danti the elephant sucked with all his might.
Snooort! Nothing happened.
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 Danti tried again and again. Finally, they
heard a small gurgle.
It became louder and louder and soon water
came gushing out of the pipe.
SPLISH! SPLASH! SPLOOSH!
“Hurray!” cried the animals.
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By morning, the water had flowed from
one pond to the other. The dry pond
was now full. All the animals came
and drank as much as they could.
Suddenly they heard a loud wail.

“What happened to my water?”

“That’s the Water Demon wailing!”
exclaimed Bando.

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 They all rushed to the edge of the forest.
Slipping away quietly from the pond was a
very small Water
Demon.
He had lost his size because there was
no water to build himself up with.
The animals in the forest had enough
water to drink and they were happy
once again.

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Learning Ladder
Peered Looked carefully Prickly Covered with
thorns
Fiercely With great force
Bamboo Very tall plant from
Sparkling Wet and shiny the grass family

Hideous Scary and ugly Strips Long thin pieces

Demon A wicked creature Fibre Very thin,

thread-like strips

Wail Long cry