THE MAGICAL BINOCULARS

Once upon a time, there was a boy named Joy. One day Joy went to a huge shopping mall with his family. The mall was bustling with activity. There were attractive displays all over. At one counter, a man was giving away free balloons to kids. Joy stopped for the balloon, but his parents had already moved on. “I can’t wait any longer for the balloon” Joy realized. “I might get lost in the crowd”. He left the balloon queue and rushed towards his parents. His mother was anxiously looking for him, and was very happy to see him. Someone else was happy too—
The Blue Fairy!
The Blue Fairy came in his dreams and said, “Joy, you showed amazing foresight today. You overcame a strong temptation to do what was right. As a reward, I give you these magical binoculars. You can use it to look through opaque things. You can also look at a particular place, or for a particular thing! Remember, you can use it only for three times. Enjoy!”
As always, Joy rushed to his friend Sid’s house when he found his reward kept under the pillow. The friends wanted to try it right away.
“Show us what’s happening behind the walls of my house”, said Sid, and peeped into the binoculars. Adjacent to his home was Robby’s home. They could see Robby’s mother doing his school homework, while Robby was watching television!! “Now we have something to tease Robby about!” smiled the kids.
“Let’s see what’s happening in my home” suggested Joy. When they peeped into the binoculars, they saw his mother sitting on a chair. Suddenly, Joy noticed tears in her eyes. His mother was crying! Alarmed, Joy ran to his home to see what was wrong. He pushed open the door, and cried, “Mom, what happened? Why are you crying?”
Mom was too sad to wonder how Joy knew that she was crying. She had lost her wedding ring! “I can’t find it anywhere!” sobbed Mom. “It was a beautiful diamond ring encrusted with red rubies, blue sapphires, and green emeralds.”
“I will find it for you Mom. Relax.” Joy looked into the binoculars and asked it to show his mother’s ring. The binoculars showed the ring kept in a pot kept on the kitchen shelf. But when Joy saw the pot, it was full of freshly made dough.
Joy started searching in the dough itself, and sure enough, the ring was in there! Mom was surprised when Joy showed her where he found the ring from.
“It must have slipped off my finger while I was kneading the flour” cried Mother, happy and relaxed. “You are my best helper!” Joy was so happy to see his mother smiling again, he didn’t even notice the magical binoculars disappear.