Heads & Tales | Making no bones

We left him in bed and went to the ground. When we got back, some of us went to Dilip’s room to find out how the patient was progressing. By his bedside lay a plate with a pile of chicken bones. “What have you been eating," we asked Dilip. His answer: “As the doctor advised, I had chicken. Unfortunately, they had no soup."

Source: As told by Nari Contractor in ‘Willow Tales’ by Fredun De Vitre, Marine Sports Publishing, 1993.

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