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Fatima : I agree, dear husband.

I know how much you

love your younger
brother.

Abdulla : Well, then. I’ll take

the sheaves to him

tonight when he is
asleep.

(Three hours later, Abdulla takes the sheaves to his brother’s barn. On the

other side of the village, Ahmed takes a look at his sheaves.)
Ahmed : How kind my elder brother has always been to me—like a

father! He works so hard to look after his wife and children.

He will accept no help from me, but I know what I shall do.
I must go across in the night with some of my sheaves and

add them to his store.

(Ahmed carries out his plan and takes the sheaves to Abdulla’s barn.)

Scene 2

(Next morning, each brother takes a look at his store and is surprised.)

Abdulla : (confused) The number of sheaves is the same as before!

How can that be? Did I make a mistake in counting the

sheaves?
Well, let me take the sheaves to my brother's barn again

tonight.

(On the other side, Ahmed looks at the sheaves in his barn.)

Ahmed : How is this possible? My sheaves remain the same! Did I
not take some to my brother's barn yesterday? Did I walk in

a dream and bring the sheaves back home? Well, tonight, I

shall not be so sleepy.

carries out — does what he has planned to do

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