Red Eyes

 Written by: Arash Nangyal

First Lane:

Seema and her brother, Jamshid want to play in the lane. Seema gazes to Jamshid’s eyes redness and asks about it from him. Jamshid replies that he doesn’t know about the cause of it.

Peddler enters the lane and children welcome him. When the peddler notices the redness of Jamshid’s eyes, he asks about the cause from Jamshid. Jamshid replies that he doesn’t know but he adds when he watches television at home, tears come from his eyes.

 Peddler asks him if he watches television from a close place. Jamshid replies yes.

The peddler brings out the magic mirror from his bag.

In the magic mirror, a television is put on a big table in the room, and children are sitting on the floor and watching the television.

Jamshid and Seema see that a kind of ray comes out from the television and directly enters the children’s eyes. The children are rubbing their eyes. Some storybooks and toys are also seen beside the children but the children are used to watching television.

The peddler takes the magic mirror back into his bag and he says to Seema and Jamshid if the children make a timetable for watching television and playing with dolls and other toys and watching television from an appropriate place, they might not face eyes problems.

Jamshid and Seema promise that they would prepare a timetable for playing, studying, and watching television. The peddler goes to the next lane.

Second Lane:

Fazila and Afzal are trying to learn the multiplication of 3.  Meanwhile, the peddler comes and the children welcome him. Fazila wants the peddler to teach them the multiplication of 3 times table. Peddler teaches them 1 time three is 3; 2 times three is 6; 3 times 3 is 9; 4 times 3 is 12 and 5 times 3 is 15.

Peddler wants the children to repeat this multiplication chart and he promises that next time, he would complete the multiplication of 3. When the peddler wants to go to the other lane, Fazila stops him and tells the following joke, “A teacher asked a student that he was absent yesterday. The student replied that his father was in the hospital.

The next day, the teacher asks him if his father is still in the hospital. The student replied yes and added that his father is a doctor.”

The peddler and other children like the joke and the peddler wants the children to learn more jokes and then he goes to the other lane.

Third lane:

Suraya and Kamal are waiting for the peddler and Golden Wing fairy to come and tell them a new part of the story of the Pencil.

Peddler and Golden Wing fairy arrive and the children greet them. Suraya wants the fairy to tell them a new part of the story. The fairy wants them to repeat the previous part of the story and they repeat it.

The Golden Wing fairy tells the second part of the story.

The Pencil-part 2