HONEST MAN

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.