Warm Clothes

  Written by: Muhammad Anwar Andar

First Lane:

Nadia and Reza are playing in the lane. The weather is cold and they are shivering. Reza is coughing. Peddler arrives on a bicycle while he is dressed in warm clothes. Children welcome him. Peddler asks them why they have not put on their warm clothes. They say that the weather not so cold. Peddler asks that if it is not cold then why they are shivering from cold.

Peddler brings out the talking box from his bag and he turns it on.

A boy says: “When I was going out of home, I had not been putting my warm clothes and I became sick and my father took me to the doctor.”

A girl says: “When I want to leave home in the cold weather, I wear warm clothes and I have not become sick yet.”

Peddler turns off the talking box. Reza is still coughing. Peddler asks him to put on a sweeter otherwise, his sickness might increase as Kamal’s.

Reza asks about Kamal’s sickness. Peddler turns on the magic mirror.

 In the mirror, it is midnight. Reza sees that Kamal is coughing and he is suffering from fever too. His mother prepares some home medicines and tells him that his father would take him to a doctor tomorrow.

Reza asks about the cause of Kamal’s sickness. Peddler turns the other side of the mirror.

 Kamal wants to go for playing. His mother asks him to put on his jacket and socks but Kamal denies and says that the weather is not so cold to wear warm clothes and he goes out of his home.

When he is playing with his friends, he is shivering from cold. His friends blame him for not wearing warm clothes but Kamal does not care about them.

Peddler turns off the magic mirror. Children ask about the health of Kamal. Peddler says that his father took him to a doctor and the doctor said that due to the cold weather, Kamal is suffering from pneumonia and prescribed him some medicines.

Children promise that they would never go out of their homes without warm clothes. Peddler gives each of them a warm coat and he goes to the next lane.

Second Lane:

Assad and Meena are playing in the lane. Peddler comes on a bicycle. They warmly welcome him. Meena laughs. Peddler asks its reason. Meena says that she remembers a joke about the bicycle. Peddler asks her to tell the joke. Meena says: “A child asked another child why elephants do not ride on bicycles. The boy replied that because elephants do not have fingers to ring the bell!”

Peddler likes the joke and he tells them a poem about the cold weather. Children learn the poem and peddler goes to the other lane.

Third Lane:

Shaid and Shagofa are waiting for the peddler and Golden-Wing fairy to come to tell them a new part of the story.

Peddler arrives with Golden the fairy and the children welcome them. Shagofa asks the fairy to tell them the third part of the story.

The fairy asks Shagofa and Shahid to repeat the previous part first.

Shahid and Shagofa tell the previous part:

The next day, the squirrel came alone again. The cobra murmured with herself why she did not take her brother and sister with herself.

The squirrel asked about cobra’s family but cobra did not reply to her and asked the squirrel to go with her to find some food.

The cobra found four walnuts and she gave all of them to the squirrel and asked her to give them to her brother and sister. The squirrel asked cobra with her to her house but cobra denies and laughed with herself.

The Golden Wind fairy tells that the cobra was very happy for the invitation of squirrel and she thinks that would capture three at once.

Cobra and the Pinkie: part three

Cobra and the Pinkie: part three

When the pinky visited cobra, she asked the cobra to go with her because her brother and sister are waiting to be friends with her but the cobra postponed the visit to another day and she asked the pinky to take her sister and brother to her house. The pinky accepted and the cobra laughed loudly.

The Golden Wings fairy tells that the cobra was very happy for the invitation of squirrel and she thinks that would capture three at once.

End of part three.