ABOUT THE AUTHOR:- Mohammad Azam Rahnaward Zaryab was born in 1949.he is a short story writer from Afghanistan and he was born in Kabul and completed his higher in Britain. Zaryab writes short stories in Dari language which is a local folk dialect and his works has been published in magazines and journals since his school days zaryab published literacy criticism for a short while under the pen name “NAB”.
SUMMARY:-
Once upon a time there is a cobbler near to the Dead tree. There were two loafers. On the dead tree the sparrow hack is lived. The loafers hang all the day in the cobbler shop. Whatever the cobbler do the loafers imitate him. One day the author is passing through the cobbler shop. He saw that cobbler was sad. He went near to him and asked why you are sad. The cobbler said that,” the bird has flown away”. The loafers are also repeating the same lines. The author was so happy. He laughed a lot. Then the cobbler said that “the bird has string to the leg. Where ever it go the string will attached to the branch and the hawk will die and no bird can break the string. The two loafers are repeating that “no bird can break it no bird can break it”. Author returned home. The author has suffered a lot at the night. Next morning, he heard some noise near to his home. He comes out and he saw that the crowd was surrounding at the dead tree. The loafers are also doing the same what the cobbler did. Cobbler took the author near to the dead tree and he said that “I said know, I said know”. The author saw that the bird has hanged to the dead tree. The author observed that the eyes are saying “this was the end of the road “. The crowd was happy