The Dangers of Electricity

1st Lane:

 

Haroon and Shafiqa are playing in the lane. Shafiqa sees a dove’s check on the electricity line (power cable). She shows the chick to Haroon. Haroon wants to catch the chick. He climbs on the roof of his house. Peddler arrives and sees him. He forbids Haroon from catching the chick. Haroon comes down. He greets peddler and asks him that why he did not allow him to catch the chick.

Peddler says that touching the power cable has the risk of death. He turns on a tape recorder and some children are telling about t eye witnesses. Yusuf says: one day I kept water heater in my one hand and with the other hand, I plugged it into the socket. it shocked me and threw me away.

Haroon and Shafiqa promise that they would never play with electric cables and would inform their friends of the dangers of electricity. Peddler gives them a plastic dove to each of them to play with and went to the next lane.

2nd Lane:

Laila and Zubair are waiting for the arrival of peddler to tell them a new story. Peddler arrives and they warmly greet him. Laila asks him to till them a new story.

Peddler tells the first episode of a Small Girl.

First Episode:

Once upon a time, there was a  girl, Tahmina living in a green village. Her only wish was to have a very small friend. One day, while she was sitting under a big tree, a dove came and dropped her a seed of flower. The dove said:” once you had rescued me from a net. I bring the seed of a flower. Sow it in a vase and it would fulfill you all wishes.”

The dove flew away. Tahmina sowed the seed. A few days later the flower grew a little and she wanted to water it. She saw that the bush was moving around. Laila was afraid and wanted to run away that the bush said her not be afraid because she is her friend, the Small Girl.

Tahmina became very happy to find a small friend. She prepared a bed for Small Girl and sat her there in the bed. The  Small Girl wished to ride on the boat. Tahmina poured some water on a plate and threw a leaf of a flower in it. She asked the Small Girl to ride on the leaf of flower and gave her two small sticks to sail the boat. After a while, Laila asked Small Girl to get down to the boat and sleep with her in the bed.

While they went to sleep, a voice was heard: “It is better to go to sleep, it would ease my job.”

End of the first episode.