ENDING AND MORAL

LESSON OF THE STORY

CABULLIWALLAH
Cabuliwallah went out of the jail and
wants to see Mini but Mini’s father said
he couldn’t because there is a wedding
ceremony and he cannot be seen by
anyone. Cabuliwallah gave nuts and
fruits to Mini’s father and told him to
give it to Mini. The father was going to
pay him but Cabuliwallah said that he
did not make it to profit himself but
because he thinks of her like her little
girl at his home.
Cabuliwallah has this small and dirty
piece of paper which is the touch of
the hand of his own little daughter
and he had carried it always next to
his hearts as he had come year after
year to Calcutta to sell his wares in
the street. He realized that this poor
Cabuli fruit-seller is also a father.
That impression of the hand of his
little Parvati reminded him of his own
little Mini.
The Cabuliwallah seemed
amazed at the apparition. He
could not revive their old
friendship. But now Mini
understood the meaning of the
word “father in law”, and she
could not answer him as of old.
She blushed in the question and
stood him with her head bowed.
He remembered the day when
Cabuliwallah and Mini first
met, and he felt sad. When
She had gone Rahman sighed
deeply an sat down on the
floor. The idea had suddenly
come up to him that his
daughter have grown up, while
he was away for so long
he would have to make friends
also. Assuredly he would not
find out when he left her.
Besides he would not know what
will happen to her in 8 years.
The marriage pipes sounded and
the mild autumn sunlight
streamed round them but
Rahman standing in Calcutta
lane.
He took out a hundred rupee
note, give it to him, and said
“Go back to your daughter in
your own country and may the
happiness bring good fortune to
my child”
Having made his present he had to
curtail some of the festivities. He
could not have the electric lights he
had intended nor the military band
and the lady of the house were
despondent about it. But the
wedding feast was all the brighter
for the thought that in a distant
land a long-lost father was going to
meet again his only child.
MORAL LESSON:

Value friendship and don’t

judge a book by its cover
because sometimes the people
we thought that can harm us is
the people who can make us
happy.