Heavy Load

 Written by, Essa Khan one of our listeners in Paktia province

Idris was a boy who lived in a green village far from the city. Idris and his father used to take salt and other goods from the market to the village on the camel and sell them there in the village.

One day when the father and son went to the market; there was nothing ready to take on the back of the camel; Idris's father asked Idris to take the camel to the mountainside for grazing. Idris left the camel in the pasture and started playing with the other boys. At that time a fox came and the camel....