Dressing Small wounds

 Written by: Abdul Sabor Janbaz

First Lane: 

Nazia and her brother, Arif are playing snowballs with some other children on the village ground. Suddenly Arif cries. Nazia sees that Arif has cut his hand with a piece of glass during making a snowball and blood is coming from his wound.

Arif wants Nazia to find some dirt and put it on his wound for stopping blood. Nazia says that all the ground is covered with snow. Arif sees cloth near the wall and he wants Nazia to dress his wound with that cloth. Meanwhile, the peddler arrives and prevents them from putting dirt on the wound or dressing with a contaminated cloth.

Nazia asks about the cause. Peddler replies that dirt has different germs that cause more health problems and contaminated cloth has the same disadvantages and then the peddler brings out the magic mirror from his bag. The children see a child whose hand is infected due to putting dirt on his wound, and a physician is dressing his hand, and the child is crying.”

The peddler put the magic mirror back into his bag. The children promise they would never use dirt or contaminated cloth for dressing wounds. Peddler gives them a roll of gauze bandage to dress Arif’s hand and when he wants to go to the next lane, Nazia stops and tells him the following joke, “A boy asked his friend the difference between fly and mosquito. His friend replied that the fly visits and the mosquito injects.”  The peddler likes the joke and goes to the next lane.

Second Lane:

Farid and Layla are practicing multiplication of 2. Peddler arrives and they welcome him. Peddler asks about their business. Layla replies that they have learned the multiplication of 2 up to 5 times 2, and they would like to repeat it to him too and they repeat it. The peddler praises them and teaches them the multiplication of 2 from 6 times 2 up to 10 times 2 in the form of a poem. Children learn it. The peddler gives 20 pieces of walnut to each of them as a gif,t and he goes to the other lane.

Third Lane:

Samir and Yalda are waiting in the lane for the peddler and Golden Wing fairy to come and tell them a story.

The peddler arrives, and the Golden Wing fairy is flying over him. The children welcome them. Yalda says to the fairy that the previous story is finished. The fairy tells a part of the story of Nahid.

Children like the story. Golden Wing fairy wants them to learn the first part and tell her when she comes next time.