Eid fair used to be held in Rasheed’s village for days together every year. Here, tradesmen had a good time to sell their goods. This time Rasheed went to see the fair with his uncle and a servant. A few friends of his uncle met there and took him with them.Rasheed’s uncle left him to look around the fair with the servant and instructed him neither to buy anything nor to go too far in his absence. Rasheed gave him a word to do the same. Rasheed and the servant took a round of the fair and stopped before the Lucky Shop. It was called Lucky as the shopkeeper of the shop was asking everybody to try their luck just paying 50 paise.Rasheed noticed an old man won a beautiful clock and sold it back to the shopkeeper for Rupees 15. Then a small boy got a comb but sold it back in 25 paise, in other rounds he won a fountain pen, a wrist watch and a table lamp and gave all the things back to the shopkeeper happily. Rasheed was attracted by all that and he also thought of trying his luck. In every round he received peanuts means very little in return for what he spent.In the greed of trying his luck, he lost all his money and became a laughing stock.They came back to the place where his uncle left them with a heavy heart. Soon, uncle came and Bhaiya told everything to him. Seeing that Rasheed was upset, uncle told him that it was not a matter of good luck or bad luck. The winners were friends of the shopkeeper. It was an act of befooling people to attract them towards the game to take money from them. Uncle gave him an umbrella and some other things. He also suggested Rasheed to forget about all those foolish things.
1. Why do you think Rashid’s uncle asked him not to buy anything in his absence? (3)
2. Why was the shop called ‘Lucky Shop’? (4)
3. An old man won a clock and sold it back to the shopkeeper. How much money did he make? (5)
4. How many prizes did the boy win? What were they? (6)
5. Why was Rashid upset? (7, 8, 9)
6. In what way did the shopkeeper make a fool of Rashid? (11)
Answer:
1. Rashid’s uncle told him not to buy anything in his absence because he knew that the shopkeepers would make a fool of Rashid and cheat him.
2. The shop was called Lucky Shop because the shopkeeper wanted everybody to try their luck. There were discs on the table with numbers from one to ten facing down. All one had to do was to pay 50 paise, pick up any six discs, add up the numbers on the discs and find the total. The article marked with that number went to the person.
3. The old man made 15 rupees by selling the clock back to the shopkeeper.
4. The boy won four prizes. They were a comb, a fountain pen, a wristwatch and a table lamp.
5. Rashid was upset because he had hopes of winning a big prize and he continued trying his luck again and again. But every time he got a trifle. People were looking at him and laughing, but no one showed any sympathy.
6. The shopkeeper made a fool of Rashid by making him believe that it was luck that got the old man and the boy their prizes. They were in fact friends of the shopkeeper who were playing tricks to tempt Rashid. As a result, Rashid tried his luck again and again in the hope of getting a big prize. However, he did not manage to win anything big.
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