Lily's Tail Trouble

Clara cuckoo looked at her classmate Lily fox's tail and asked, "Hey! Is your tail fur falling out?"

- Vandana Gupta

"Why do you say that?" Lily asked, startled, as she believed that her tail was the most beautiful and bushy one in the entire school.

"Well, it looks thinner. My Mom says that hair fall can happen if there's less protein in your diet. You should eat more protein!" Carla shrugged and said before flying off.

Lily didn't take it seriously until the next morning when she met Morty goat in the school library.

"Lily, is something worrying you?" Morty asked.

"No, why do you ask?" "Well, your tail looks very thin, and I'm wondering if stress is causing the hair fall."

"My tail is fine! You should have your eyes checked," Lily replied confidently and left without taking any books.

Back home, she checked her tail carefully in the mirror, and it looked the same. But doubt crept into her mind is my tail really getting thinner and I am unable to notice it?

Two days later, she ran into Sleepy sloth.

"Lily, what happened to your tail? It used to be so bushy!" he exclaimed.

Lily gave up. Everyone was saying the same thing that her tail was not healthy and bushy anymore. There must be some truth to it, she thought.

"I don't know what to do!" she said worriedly.

Sleepy chuckled and said, "My uncle is a famous hair doctor in the city. He can make a bald eagle sprout a meadow on its head. But his treatments are expensivethey could run to thousands of rupees." "Forget the cost! Just get me some medicine from your uncle!" Lily said quickly, desperate to save her tail.

"I will," Sleepy promised, "but next week.

I need to stock up on apples for myself, and that will take a week. I'll get the medicine for you after that."

"That's too late! I need it now. I could bring you some apples, and the money for the medicine; could you please get it by tomorrow?"

Lily asked Sleepy agreed, and Lily gave a big basket of apples and an envelope of money for the medicine to Sleepy that evening.