Magic Umbrella

By:  Asma Kakar

 

There were a boy, Khalid and his sister, Ramzia living in a green village far from the city.

One day they left home for playing. Ramzia heard a voice of tambourine from Zarghona’s garden.   Zarghona was Ramzia’s friend. She had a party in her garden. Ramzia and Khalid wanted to participate in the party, but Zarghona didn’t allow them and said that Zarghona and Khalid always break their toys in picnics. They became angry and when wanted to leave the garden, a nice umbrella attracted their attention.

  Khalid opened the umbrella and wanted to break it, but a strong wind blew and took them with the umbrella to the sky. They afraid and cried loudly, but no one heard their voice.

 The wind threw them among mountains. They saw many toys there in that place, but all of them were broken. They shouted and asked for help. Finally, they heard of voice a boy, Sharif. Sharif asked them to play with his toys. They went and started playing. After a short time, they became tired of toys and broke them all.

When sharif saw the situation, he started crying. A broken toy said that she would take her revenge. A heavy wind blew again and carried them near to a big machine. There were many toys around the machine. The broken toys told them to repair all the broken toys in a few minutes in the machine, otherwise, they would not have the allowance to go home.

They started work but weren’t able to finish all the work. Ramzia was to put the umbrella in the machine, but Khalid saw it and drew her attention toward umbrella. Ramzia kept the umbrella in a safe place and wanted to return it to Zarghona.  Meanwhile, they found themselves in Zarghona’s garden. They returned the umbrella to her and promised not to break any toys. Zarghona also became happy and invited them to share the party.