Whenever I find the half eaten guava fruits lying on the
ground under the guava tree, I look up hoping to find more fruits up there. I
usually find some small fruits yet to ripen and make it a point to keep
watching them and get at them as soon as they ripen. Before the fruit bat. But the
bat almost always beats me.
I was watering the plants under the tree last evening and
casually looked up. I found two fruits just right on one of the upper branches.
I tried to reach them with the hook like contraption that I have made for the
purpose (using a stick, discarded copper pipes, electric wire tags and ‘duck’
tape) but they were beyond my reach.
If I can’t reach them from the ground, I usually can reach
them from above, from the balcony. I eagerly ran upstairs, happy to have beaten
the fruit bat this time. I bent down from the balcony, much beyond the limit, risking losing my balance
and falling down, and parted the leaves. This is what I found.
The other fruit was still green, not ripe. I heard someone laughing.
But the bat was not to be seen.
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