The Spring Melody

    Written by: Muhammad Anwar Andar

First Lane:

Fazila and Aslam are playing in the lane. Meanwhile, they hear the voice of the peddler. Peddler arrives and they welcome him.

Peddler asks them about their business. Hadia says that they were playing ‌Bilistakan. Peddler asks about Bilistakan.

Aslam says that children are divided into two groups. One of the children of one group hide something in his hand and asks the second group to find the hand that the object is in it. If they find the correct hand, then they start the game first.

The game is as follows: one child put his/her span and a child of the other group jumps from the span. The second child, third child, and more children put their span upon each other’s hands and the participants of the other group jump over the spans. If anyone's foot touches with the span, the game comes to an end then the next group starts the game.

Peddler appreciates them and asks them to play the game on soft ground and then he goes to the next lane.

Second Lane:

Qadeem is watering a sapling. Her sister, Rahila comes and laughs. Qadeem asks the reason for her laughter. Rahila says that she remembers a joke about a sapling. Qadeem asks her to share the joke with him too but Rahila says that when the peddler comes, she would tell the joke.

Peddler arrives with his rabbit and they welcome him. Qadeem says to the peddler that Rahila wants to tell a new joke. Peddler asks Rahila to tell the joke. Rahila says: “a boy told his father that the sapling he had planted is not grown yet. His father asked the reason. The boy said that he always pulls out the sapling and checks that if it's grown or not.”

Peddler likes the joke and asks them to take care of the saplings and water them regularly and then the rabbit tells them a melody about the spring season and the children learn it. Peddler goes to the other lane.

Third Lane:

Peddler and Golden Wind fairy enter the lane. The children welcome them. Fatima and Nazeer ask the Golden Wing fairy to tell them a new part of the story “Neek-Bad”.

Peddler asks them to tell them the previous part first. Fatima and Nazir tell them the previous part as follows: “When Nik was going anywhere, he was annoying small children. He was pushing one and pulling another child and the children were crying.

His friend, Mateen asked him to change his behavior but Nik said that he enjoys annoying others.

Meanwhile, a buggy came and a nice small girl got off from the buggy to play with the children for a while. Nik told to the nice girl there is a snake behind her feet. The nice girl fell down on the ground.”

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

Neek-Bad: Part 2

The nice girl was the daughter of the king. People splashed water on his face and she did not come to her sense and the buggy driver took her back to the castle.

One day, Mateen and Neek came out from the mosque where they were studying. Mateen did not find his shoes. Neek told him to wear his shoes and go bring his shoes back.

Mateen went home and Neek started to annoy the children. The children were calling him Neek- Bad. Mateen came back and saw that Mateen had put some raw apricots in Mateen’s shoes. Mateen knew that Neek was annoying him. Meanwhile, the king came in his buggy and the buggy driver angrily introduced Neek to the king.

End of part two.