Palanquin, a spot for Imagination of Rabindranath (contd-1)

Rabindranath, since his childhood, had a powerful imagination. He imagined that the bearers of the palanquin carried him to a fancy world and passed through faraway strange lands and he gave each country a name from the books he read. His imagination took him through a deep forest  where tiger's eyes blazed. Sometimes his palanquin became a peacock-boat, floating on the ocean  until the shore was out of sight. The water splashed gently on to the shore, the waves winged and swelled around them.
Role of a teacher; 
Sometimes he assumed the role of a teacher. The railings of the veranda were his students. They were afraid of him. Some of them were very naughty and cared nothing for their books. He told them with dire threats that when they  grew up they would be fit for nothing but casual labor. They bore the marks of his beating from head to foot, yet they did not stop being naughty. They would only stop at the end of his game.
Game with wooden lion:
There was another game, too, with his wooden lion. He heard stories of sacrifices of goats, buffaloes and he decided that a lion sacrifice would be magnificient.  He had a wooden lion. Ofcourse, there would be some strong 'mantra' for the lion otherwise it could not be offered for puja, He found a mantra,
                       Liony, Liony, off with your head,
                       Liony, Liony, now you are dead,
                       Woofle the walnut goes clappety clap,
                        Snip, Snop, Snap.