I was quite puzzled, one day, to find a few
Sultan Fish (leptobarbus hoeveni) - ikan
jelawat - floating dead in my pond
in my front garden. Each fish was about a foot long but was not suitable for
the table due to its mysterious death so the stray cats were given a feast by
me.
The pump was working well and the water level in the pond was all right. It had also been raining daily. The fish should be able to thrive in the pond. It was a mystery why the fish had died.
However, I found a whiskey bottle-stopper floating on the surface of the pond that morning. I guess the cause of the death of the fish might be due to intoxication or poison. A bottle of whiskey or poison must have fallen into the pond. I wonder whether the bottle had fallen from the sky like in the film The Gods Must be Crazy.
I closed up the pond after that unfortunate, mysterious incident.
I was quite puzzled, too, to find a young, inflorescent-bearing coconut tree wilting in my backyard, a few years ago, on my return from an oversea vacation. There was a ring of dried grass caused by the pouring of derv around the base of the tree. The palm soon withered and died due to the diesel-poisoning. This was another mystery that had yet to be solved.
ltbs
To withstand the assaults of envy, you must be either a hero or a saint.
The pump was working well and the water level in the pond was all right. It had also been raining daily. The fish should be able to thrive in the pond. It was a mystery why the fish had died.
However, I found a whiskey bottle-stopper floating on the surface of the pond that morning. I guess the cause of the death of the fish might be due to intoxication or poison. A bottle of whiskey or poison must have fallen into the pond. I wonder whether the bottle had fallen from the sky like in the film The Gods Must be Crazy.
I closed up the pond after that unfortunate, mysterious incident.
I was quite puzzled, too, to find a young, inflorescent-bearing coconut tree wilting in my backyard, a few years ago, on my return from an oversea vacation. There was a ring of dried grass caused by the pouring of derv around the base of the tree. The palm soon withered and died due to the diesel-poisoning. This was another mystery that had yet to be solved.
ltbs
To withstand the assaults of envy, you must be either a hero or a saint.
Publius Syrus
