The Melody of Flower

Written by: Muhammad Anwar Andar

First Lane:

Shkula and Toryalai walk in the garden in front of their house. Torialai tells Shkula that one of these flowers smells sweet and when he wants to cut it, Shkula stops him. Toryalai gets angry and when he wants to cut it, the peddler enters the garden and after greeting the children, the peddler also stops Torialai from cutting the flower. Torialai asks why the peddler prevents him from cutting the flower.

The peddler takes a beautiful flower out of his bag and says that it is a magic flower that talks about the benefits of keeping flowers in the bushes.
The magic flower says, “We are here to beautify and perfume your surroundings; some of the insects feed on us. We also let the honey bees to collect nectars from us for making honey. Flowers keep the air clean. If the flowers wither, they will die very soon; if keep them in the bushes, they will remain fresh on the plant for several days but you should regularly water them.

Torialai and Shukla promise that they will never cut flowers and they will always water them.

The magic flower becomes happy and tells a melody about the flowers and children learn it and the peddler goes to the next lane.

Second Lane:

Hamid and Hamasa are telling joke to each other and they are laughing. Peddler arrives and they welcome him.
The peddler asks about the cause of their laughter.

Hamasa replies that they were telling jokes and adds that now it’s the peddler’s turn to tell them a joke.
Peddler tells the following joke, “A teacher asked his students where they can find an elephant. A student replied that the elephant is not a small object to be lost!”

The children like the joke and the peddler wants them to learn new jokes for next time and he goes to the last lane.

Third Lane:

Parwana, Popal and some other children arrange a party in Parwana’s garden and they have Bolani to eat. They also invite the peddler to participate in their party and Parwana gives some Bolani to the peddler. Peddler thanks them for the invitation.

Popal wants the peddler to give their gifts. The peddler wants them to name three objects starting with P. Parwana says that paper, people and map start with p. peddler corrects the mistake and says that map starts with m not p.

Popal says that Popal, pencil and party. Peddler praises them and wants them to continue the game.