Syringe

Written by: Muhammad Anwar Andar

First Lane: 

Mena is playing with her brother, Yunus in the lane. Yunis finds an old syringe in the garbage and he shows it to Mena. Mena wants him to give it to her but Yunus denies it.

Yunus fills the syringe with water and he wants Mena to roll up her sleeve and he would inject her.

Meanwhile, the peddler sees them and prevents Yunus from injecting Mena.

 When the peddler arrives, the children welcome him. Yunus asks about the cause of preventing him from injecting Mena.

Peddler gives them a pair of magical glasses. The children see small living objects in the syringe and they ask the peddler about them.

The peddler replies that those small living objects are called germs and when they enter the body or into the blood of a healthy person, it causes many diseases.

Yunus says that when he picked it up from the ground, it did not have any germs.

The peddler says that germs small living objects that could be seen under a microscope. He adds that if a healthy person injects with a contaminated injection, the microbe might transmit to him as it has happened to Hameda and Kamal.

The children ask about Hameda and Kamal.

The peddler brings out his magic mirror.

The children see Kamal and his sister Hameda in a hospital and they are suffering from rashes on their faces. Kamal’s father asks the doctor about the cause of their children's rashes.

The doctor replies that these kinds of rashes are caused by using a patient’s syringe who is suffering from the same issue or using contaminated water. The father says that there is no one suffering from rashes in their family and they drink clear water. 

The peddler takes the mirror from them.

Mena says that Hameda and Kamal had not drunk contaminated water. Peddler turns on the other side of the mirror and the children see in the mirror that Kamal and Hameda are playing on the village ground. Hameda takes two syringes from the garbage and she fills both from water. She gives one of them to Kamal and they started sprinkling water on each other.

Peddler takes the magic mirror back into his bag. Yunus and Mena promise that they would never play with old syringes and the peddler goes to the next lane.

Second Lane:

Talwasa tells the following riddle to her brother, Dawood and wants him to find its correct answer, “What is the object that doesn’t have a head but has a hat?” Dawood could not find its answer. Peddler arrives and after greeting,

Dawood asks the peddler if he could help him in this issue. Peddler finds some wrong answers but Talwasa doesn’t accept. Talwasa says some signs of the object and the peddler succeed to find the correct answer which is mushroom.

Talwasa says that she has learned a joke. Peddler wants her to tell it to him and other children too.

Talwasa tells the following joke, “A doctor asked a patient why his ears are burned. The patient replied that he was ironing his clothes and someone calls him. When he wanted to pick up his mobile, he picked up the iron mistakenly and burned his one ear.

The doctor asked how his second ear burned. The man replied that when he burned his first ear, and when he wanted to call to the ambulance center, then he held the iron again and burned his second ear too.”

The peddler and children like the joke and the peddler goes to the last lane.

Third Lane:

Ilham and Shakira are telling a melody about spring to each other. The peddler arrives and they warmly welcome him. The peddler asks them about their business. Ilham replies that they were telling a melody about spring.

The peddler wants Ilham to tell the melody to him too. Ilham and Shakira repeat the melody. Peddler likes it and wants the children to learn more poems and melodies and  then they all go to their homes.