Once in the kingdom of Golotol there lived a whimsical king of a similar name Goltol. He lived in a magnificent palace with round roofs and tall round pillars. Outdoors he had round gardens with round fountains in between and lots and lots of pretty flowers. Goltol's room was also round with round soft cushioned chairs to sit on and a soft round bed to sleep in. His favourite dress was a beautiful long red kurta with golden round polka dots on it. On his head he wore a round turban with round gems on it. Lots of rounds, circles right!
One day, Goltol was sitting for his lunch on his round table wearing his favourite dress. The cook put a round plate with five round bowls in front of him. One bowl had a round gulab jamun, another had round jalebis, his favourite; the third bowl had round kachoris, the fourth bowl kadhi with round pakodas and the fifth bowl had……. just plain dal but with round peas in it. The cook served him hot round rotis. Suddenly Goltol cried out "Enough! "
"What is wrong" minister asked
"Everything is round, circles everywhere. I don't want circles. I hate circles. I won't eat this. No No No No No"
Everyone was astonished, "What!"
Goltol said, "I hereby banish everything circle in shape. No circles. Change everything, change all shapes. I don't want circles"
Minister said, "But king, rotis are always circle and jalebis too and your favourite dress has.…"
"Change them all" Gotol ordered.
And so it was, everything was changed. The chairs, tables, bed, fountains, plates, bowls, rotis, jalebis everything became square, triangle, oval, semi circle, even Goltol's favourite dress. It was now red with golden triangles all over it. Goltol was happy, very happy.
Soon it was the big Olympics day. The Golotol's were having a sports competition against the neighboring kingdom Puchtach. There were four games scheduled- cricket, flying frisbee, bounce ball and the king's favourite horse cart racing.
Goltol was getting dressed and the servant with great difficulty had managed to make a square turban. But the moment it was placed on Goltol's head it slipped over his eyes. The servant tried a semicircle turban but it would keep toppling over. Finally, he managed to put on a triangle turban.
King Puchtach looked at him and burst out laughing, "You look very funny", he said. Goltol ignored it.
The games began with cricket. King Puchtach looked puzzled, "Why is the stadium oval and the ball square," he asked.
"That's how we play cricket here", Goltol replied
But can you imagine playing with a square ball…..the ball just would not roll. No fours and sixes, not even runs, and the players kept getting hurt because the sharp corners of the square ball.
"Next game" Goltol quickly announced.
It was Frisbee flying. The Puchtach's had brought their own round Frisbee. It flew well, very high and they caught it well. Gotol's Frisbee was rectangle, it would not spin like the round Frisbee's, it did not fly high and the corners were so sharp, it hurt. Puchtach won the game.
"Next game" Goltol quickly announced
It was bounce ball and again Puchtach had brought their own ball. It bounced well and they quickly scored. But, poor Goltols, their ball was triangle, it would not bounce at all, they even tried a square, rectangle and semicircle ball, none would bounce. Puchtach won the game.
"Last game" Goltol quickly announced.
Now horse cart racing was Goltol's favourite game, specially because he himself was participating in it against King Puchtach. King Goltol climbed into his beautiful white horse cart, with white a horse and square wheels. King Puctach had a brown horse cart with brown horse and circle wheels. The race began with a "1, 2, 3 go."
King Puchtach's horse ran quickly. Goltol's crawled. He told his horse "Faster, faster, run faster, quick", but the poor horse, no matter how hard he pulled the square wheels would not go as fast as circle wheels. Finally Goltol jumped off and started pushing the cart along. He was strong. Soon they both reached a slope. Puchtach laughed "ha ha ha" and quickly rolled down the slope, he was fast, too fast, he started slipping and sliding "Aieeeee, help" he yelled. Goltol's square wheels did not roll, they were sliding down the slope too, but not as fast.
"I must help, King Puchtach will crash ", Goltol thought. He jumped down his cart. Now did I tell you, Goltol was a fast runner too. He ran as swift as a fast rolling ball. He tugged at Puctach's cart and held on to it hard. The cart screeched to a halt.
King Puchtach jumped out. He was so relieved, "Thank you King Goltol, you saved my life"
"You are welcome King Puctach" Goltol said, "and congratulations, you won the game, you came first, your cart with round wheels was the fastest"
King Puchtach thought and said, "No you ran faster than my cart and you saved my life. The prize is yours"
A few hours later a messenger announced " Hear hear hear, King Gotol has declared everything in his kingdom should be circle in shape. No squares, no rectangles, no triangles, only circles!"
Now children, imagine what will happen if everything is circle in shape?
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