Once upon a time lived a Chucklo (Male Black bird) and a Chuckli (Female Black Bird). They had been happily married for a very long time and their children had flown the nest many years ago.
It was a beautiful sunny morning as Chucklo and chuckli ate thier breakfast across the table from each other. “What shall we have for dinner this evening? ” said chucklo to chuckli.
“I would love some delicious kicheri but there is no rice or dal” chuckli replied “Why don’t you go and get the dal and rice and i will cook up a sumptuous dinner for us this evening”. “That sounds like a great idea” said chucklo as he finished his breakfast and dashed to fetch the rice and dal.
On his return laded with the rice and dal he handed it to chuckli “here you go. I cant wait to have some delicious kicheri after work this evening”
Chuckli took the rice and dal but just then remembered “there is no ghee. We need lots of ghee for the kicheri” so chucklo went back out to get the ghee and rushed back to give it to Chuckli . “Make sure you have it when I get back from work, i cant wait!” said Chucklo and flew off to work.
Chuckli began to make the kicheri and it smelled amazing. The smell of fresh kicheri cooking made Chuckli very hungry and decided to taste the kicheri . It was nice but needed a bit more ghee. After adding the ghee she tried some more . It was better but needed some more ghee so she added a little more. She tried it again and yet it needed more ghee. This happened for some time until finally there was no more kicheri left.
Tired and with a bursting stomach chuckli needed to rest so she filled the pot with water and rested her eyes after putting a cloth over them to stop the light getting in.
Soon after Chucklo came home, looking forward to a sumptuous Kicheri dinner.
“Come quick, let’s have our lovely dinner” Chucklo said to Chuckli.
“No I am tired and feeling unwell you go ahead and eat” replied Chuckli.
“No you spent all day making such a lovely dinner let us eat together” said Chucklo in anticipation of a hearty dinner.
But Chuckli insisted she was too tired. “You go ahead and I will come later”
Chucklo was tired and starving so went excitedly to the pot of kicheri to dig in.
He opened the pot and was shocked that there was only water inside.
“Where is all the kicheri?” He asked Chuckli
“It’s in the pot” she said.
“There is only water in the pot no kicheri!” replied Chucklo in an upset voice.
Chuckli quickly blurted out “Oh no! I know what happened the neighbours dog saw me cooking all day I bet he came and ate it all!”
Chucklo was very upset after looking forward to some fresh hot kicheri all day he flew over to the Neighbor’s house to talk to the dog.
“Why did you eat all of our kicheri?” the demanded from the neighbours dog
“What? That wasnt me” said the dog.
“I have been watching your nest all day from here and saw Chuckli cook the lovely kicheri . But I also saw her eat all the kicheri too. You should be asking Chuckli about your kicheri” the dog said in a clear and certain manner.
Shocked and embarrassed Chucklo flew Back to his nest and asked Chuckli again noting the dog had been watching her all day and saw her eat the entire pot on kicheri all by herself.
Still feeling tired and sick for eating too much and now extremely embarrassed, Chuckli finally confessed, apologies and promised not to lie ever again. “Being selfish and eating all the food and lying about it has left me feeling very unwell and I shall never do it again” she promised.