The narrator had many pet animals and birds. All of them loved her, but none of them were brave enough to eat from her plate. However, Gillu was quite different from the rest of them. As soon as the narrator reached the dining room, Gillu came in from the window and wanted to sit in the narrator's plate. The narrator had a lot of difficulty in teaching him to sit close to the plate. There he ate each grain of rice very cleverly.
