Pankaj's Short Stories

Smart Dog 🌿

The wife of a man named Sunet had died due to illness. She had a seven year old son. After some time Suneet got married again. The boy now had a step mother. Everything went well for a few years. But when the step mother had a child, her love for the seven year old boy slowly ended. A dog used to sit under a tree outside the house. The boy used to play with him. Sunet used to go to work in the morning after having breakfast. There used to be daily arguments, scoldings between the step mother and the boy. One day the step mother got fed up of all this and tied the boy with a rope and took him behind her house. There was an old grave lying there. She locked the boy in the grave and buried him in the pit present there. The dog was watching all this at a distance. The dog did not delay and ran to Sunet. Sunet recognized the dog. A lot of tears were visible in the dog's eyes. Sunet started going with the dog. After some time, Sunet reached the place behind the house. The dog told him to dig here. Sunet started digging. After some time, he saw a grave. When he opened the grave, he was shocked. Sunet took his son out of the grave and took him to the hospital. The boy was still breathing. After a few days, the boy recovered. The police officers caught the stepmother. The court sentenced the woman to ten years of imprisonment for this crime.