CHILDREN DAY
PLAY: HONEST MAN
CAST: MERCHANT
FRUIT SELLER
MAN
SULTAN
SERVANT 1
SOLDIER
ACT: 1 (AT
MARKET PLACE)
MERCHANT: OH AT LAST I HAD CAME TO THE BAGHDAD,
I WILL START MY BUSINESS HERE. I HAD ALSO 50 OUNCES OF SILVER WITH ME….. WITH
THAT MUCH MONEY WHICH BUSINESS SHOULD I START. AH I COULD START AS A MERCHANT.
FIRST I SHOULD FIND A SHELTER TO LIVE AND I’M ALSO HUNGRY…….I SHOULD GET SOME
FRUITS.
(THEN HE
WENT TO FRUIT SELLER FOR GETTING SOME FRUITS ON THE WAY HE DROP HIS MONEY BAG)
FRUIT SELLER: GET SOME APPLES….. GET SOME APPLES……
AT HAJI’S YOU WOULD ONLY GET FRESH APPLES (LOOKING AT THE MERCHANT) OH BROTHER
DO YOU WANT SOME FRESH APPLES?
MERCHANT: HOW MUCH FOR A ONE APPLE?
FRUIT SELLER: 5 BRONZE OUNCES.
MERCHANT: GIVE ME TWO, ARE THEY FRESH?
FRUIT SELLER: YES THEY ARE FRESH IN HAJIS’S FRUIT
STAWL YOU ONLY GET BEST.
(FRUIT SELLER
GIVE HIM HIS APPLES, WHEN MERCHANT CHECKED HIS BAG TO TAKE OUT PAYMENT HE WAS
SHOCKED TO FIND BAG NOT IN HIS POCKET)
MERCHANT: OH NO WHERE IS MY BAG (SHOCKINGLY)……DO
YOU SEE MY BAG, IT WAS ______ IN COLOR, IT CONTAINS ALL MY LIFETIME EARNINGS…….NOW
WHAT WILL I DO (SADLY).
FRUIT SELLER: SORRY BROTHER I HADN’T SAW YOUR BAG.
(A MAN
WATCHING FROM DISTANT CAME TOWARDS MERCHANT)
MAN: I THINK YOU HAD LOST YOUR SOMETHING.
MERCHANT: (HOPEFULLY) I HAD LOST MY PURSE, IT
WAS ______ IN COLOUR…….. HAVE YOU SEEN IT?
MAN: I FOUND THIS ON THE ROAD (TAKING OUT
_______ COLOUR BAG) IS IT YOURS?
MERCHANT: (HAPPILY) OH THANK GOD.
MAN: THERE ARE TOTAL 50 OUNCES OF SILVER
IN IT.
MERCHANT: (ANGRILY) WHAT ARE YOU SAYING…. IT DIDN’T
HAVE 50 OUNCES IN IT…..I HAD 75 OUNCES OF SILVER IN IT…..I KNOW YOU HAD TAKEN
SOME MONEY, YOU ARE LIYING.
MAN: I HADN’T TAKEN ANY MONEY, I’M
TELLING THE TRUTH!
MERCHANT: NO YOU HAD….GIVE ME MY MONEY BAG
FRUIT SELLER: CALM DOWN YOU TWO I THINK YOU SHUOLD
TAKE YOUR MATTER TO THE SULTAN…..HE IS THE WISE MAN.
MAN: I AGREE WITH YOU
MERCHANT: OK LET GO TO THE KING.
ACT: 2 (AT
THE SULTANS COURT)
SULTAN: I HAD HEARD YOUR BOTH STORIES AND I
HAVE ALREADY THOUGHT ABOUT MY DESISION, BEFORE TELLING THE DESITION DO ANYONE WANT’S
TO CONFESS ANYTHING.
MERCHANT: YOUR MAJESTY I’M TELLING THE TRUTH…..THAT
MAN IS AN ABSOLUTELY A CHEATER.
SULTAN: OH! ...... SO AFTER HEARING YOUR
BOTH STORIES I HAD CAME TO THE DESITION THAT AS YOU KNOW, (POINTING TOWARDS
MERCHANT) YOU HAD STATE THAT IN YOUR BAG THERE WAS 75 OUNCES OF SILVER AND THE
BAG THAT THE MAN HAD FOUND ONLY HAD 50 OUNCES……SO IT MEANS THAT IT ISN’T THE
SAME BAG. SO THAT 50 OUNCES’S BAG SHOULD BE GIVEN TO THAT HONEST MAN AND YOU
MERCHANT SHOULD KEEP SEARCHING FOR YOUR BAG.
MERCHANT: (FORGIVELY) OH MAJESTY! PLEASE FORGIVE ME;
ACTUALLY I HAD TOLD LIE, I ONLY HAD 50 OUNCES OF SILVER IN MY BAG. I DO THIS
BECAUSE TO GET MORE MONEY (KNEEING DOWN) OH PLEASE MAJESTY FORGIVE ME.
SULTAN: (ANGRILY) I KNOW FROM THE START THAT
YOU WERE LIYING! NOW YOU WILL SPENT YOUR LIFE IN THE PRISON OF BAGHDAD AND ALL
YOUR MONEY WOULD BE GIVEN TO THAT HONEST MAN (ORDER) SOLDIERS CAPTURED HIM.
(SOLDIERS CAM AND CAPTURE HIM)
MAN: OH MAJESTY, I DON’T WANT HIS MONEY, IT
IS THE MONEY WHICH HE EARNED BY HIS LIFE TIME EARNINGS, I DIDN’T NEED THAT
MONEY…… MAJESTY PLEASE FORGIVE THAT POOR MAN.
SULTAN: IM HAPPY WITH YOUR HONESTY AND
KINDNESS, IT FEELS ME VERY HAPPY THAT IN MY KINGDOM THERE ARE HONEST AND KIND
PEOPLES LIKE YOU, BECAUSE OF YOU IM GIVING HIM HIS FREEDOM AND MONEY, AND FOR
YOU I HAVE SPECIAL GIFT…..YOU WERE HONEST WITH HIS 50 OUNCES OF SILVER NOW IM
GIVING YOU 100 OUNCES OF IT.
MAN: THANK YOU YOUR MAJESTY.
THANK YOU.
