Slingshot
Written by: Mohammad Anwar Andar
1st Lane:
Qasim and Adila are playing in the lane. Qasim has a slingshot. He puts a stone in his slingshot. Peddler is coming toward them. When Qasim wants to hit a target, he misses it and hits Peddler’s bag.
Peddler arrives and prohibits Qasim from playing with a slingshot in the lane.
Peddler turns on his tape recorder. Ali Raza, a boy from Laghman province says that one day he was playing with the slingshot, he broke the head of a boy. He says that knows now where to play with the slingshot.
Peddler turns off the tape recorder. Qasim throws away his slingshot and promises that he would not play with slingshot anymore. Peddler says that he could play with slingshot far from houses, streets, and public ways.
Peddler goes to the lane of story.
2nd Lane:
Nawid and Ferishta are waiting for Peddler to come and tell them the next episode of the Small Girl Tale. Peddler arrives and they welcome him. Nawid wants Peddler to tell him the new episode of the story. Peddler asks them about the previous episode. Ferishta reminds that in the previous episode, dragonfly took the Small Girl to his home in a jungle. the Small Girl taught her how to cook eggs and other foods. Dragonfly became very happy. Small Girl wanted dragonfly to let her go to Tahmina’s house.
Peddler starts the 4th episode as follow:
4th Episode:
While Dragonfly saw the kindness, and help of the Small Girl, she allowed her to go to Tahmina’s house. She was running in the jungle and became tired, hungry and thirsty. She saw a house in the jungle. She went near the house and knocked the door. A mouse opened the door. The Small Girl said that she was going to his house but got tired and wants to drink some water. The mouse welcomes her and brought her some food and water. In meanwhile, another mouse came and asks the mouse about her guest. The mouse said about the Small Girl.
The second mouse liked Small Girl and asked the mouse to sell the Small Girl to her and she would pay her more money. The mouse accepted. When Small Girl knew that the mouse wants to sell her, she cried and begged the mouse to let her go.
Whether she would sell her to the other mouse or not, we have to wait for the next episode.