The Snow Melody

Written by: Najia Nijat

first Lane:

Zubair and Lima are making a snowman in the alley. Meanwhile, peddler arrives with his rabbit and they appreciate their snowman. Lima asks the peddler about their gifts. Rabbit says that she would tell them a melody about the snow as a gift.

The rabbit tells the melody and the children learn it. Peddler and the rabbit go to the next lane.

Second Lane:

Abaseen is drawing lines on the wall in the alley. His sister, Frishta prevents him but he continues his work. Peddler comes and they great him. Frishta complains from Abaseen and says that he is always drawing lines and pictures on the walls of home and lane. Abaseen says that he likes to write and draw on the walls and he adds that he has written his name on his house’s gate for his friends to know his home.

Frishta asks the peddler to advise Abaseen to leave the habit of writing on the walls. Peddler brings out his magic mirror from his bag.

In the mirror, there are two houses shown. One house seems very nice and clean but the second one is black with coal, lines and drawing any kind of picture. Peddler asks Abaseen which house he likes to be his house.

Abaseen says that he likes the white and clean one. Peddler says that if he draws lines and pictures on his house’s walls, his house might become the dirtiest house in the lane. Abaseen regrets his actions and he promises that he would never draw lines and pictures on the walls.

Peddler gives a drawing notebook and crayons to each of the children to draw pictures in them instead of walls and he goes to the next lane.

Third Lane:

 Farid wants Momina to tell him a joke. Momina says that she does not remember any joke. Peddler and his rabbit come and the children welcome them. Momina asks the peddler to tell them a joke. Peddler says that he does not have a new joke.

The rabbit says that she remembers a joke. Children ask her to tell them. Rabbit says: “A child asked another child why fish could not talk. The other boys replied that when some’s head is water, how he/she could talk!”

Children like and learn the joke. Meanwhile, Golden Wing fairy says from inside the bag that she also liked the joke.

Momina asks the fairy to come out from the bag and tell them a new part of the serial. Story.

The fairy comes out and she asks the children to tell her to repeat her the previous part of the story.

Momina and Farid tell the previous part as follows: “The Cobra chased the pinky. Pinky was talking about the Cobra with her brother and sister. Her sister asked her why the Cobra did not come with her. His brother prevented Cobra’s coming in the absence of their mother. The Pinky says that her new friend is very kind. Meanwhile, the Cobra attacked from the wall on those three and they cried.”

The fairy tells the last part of the story.

Part Four: Cobra and the Pinkie

When the pinkie’s mother heard the crying of her children, she ran toward her home and saw that the tail of the cobra was on the ground and cobra was up on the tree. The pinkie’s mother captured the cobra from her tail and cobra was pulling the pinkies’ mother toward the tree and they both fell down on the ground. The cobra ran away and the pinkies’ mother hurt her back during falling down from the tree.

Pinkie’s brother and sister blamed pinkie for choosing their enemy as her friend. Their mother said that they find a new friend and they do not have any information about her, they should share the issue with their parents.

End of the story.