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Eid  was held in Rasheed’s village for every . Here, tradesmen had a wonderful time to sell their goods. This time Rasheed went to the fair with his uncle and Bhaiya. 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 Bhaiya and  him neither to buy anything nor to go too far in his absence. Rasheed gave him a promise to do the same. Rasheed and Bhaiya roamed around and stopped before the Lucky Shop. The shopkeeper of the  was asking everybody to try their luck just paying 50 paise.

 

Rasheed noticed an old man selling the clock he had won back to the shopkeeper for Rs. 15. Then the next customer to the lucky shop was a boy. He won a comb but sold it back for 25 paise. He also won a fountain pen, a  and a table lamp. The shopkeeper gave all the things to the boy, and he went happily. All that attracted Rasheed, and he also thought of attempting his luck. In every round, he received an object with a little value.

 

Rasheed lost all his money because he was tempted to play and ultimately got cheated because of his . He and Bhaiya came back to the place where his uncle had left them. Soon, uncle came, and Bhaiya told the whole thing to him. Seeing that Rasheed was , his uncle took him to a shop and bought him an umbrella, some biscuits, sweets, and some other little gifts.

 

When they went back home, his uncle explained to him that the game was not a matter of good luck or bad luck. The  in the lucky shop were friends of the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper was making money by . He was using the fake winners to attract people towards the game. He also advised Rasheed to forget about his with the lucky shop and not to go around telling others about it.