My reading homework 19/5/10

STORY :  GENEROSITY PAGES 1-10 30MIN

Mahatma Gandhi go from city to city, village to village collecting fund for the Charkha Sangh. During one of his tour he address a meeting in Orissa. After his speech a poor old woman get up. She is bent with age her hair is grey and her clothes are in tatters. The volunteer try to stop her but she fight her way to the place where Gandhiji is sitting. "I must see him" she insist and going up to Gandhiji touch his feet. Then from the fold of her sari she bring out a copper coin and place it at his feet. Gandhiji pick up the copper coin and put it away carefully. The Charkha Sangh funds are under the charge of Jamnalal Bajaj. He ask Gandhiji for the coin but Gandhiji refused. "I keep cheques worth thousands of rupees for the Charkha Sangh" Jamnalal Bajaj said laughing "This copper coin is worth much more than those thousands," Gandhiji said. "If a man has several lakhs and he gives away a thousand or two it doesn't mean much. But this coin is perhaps all that the poor woman possess. She gives me all she has. That is very generous of her, What a great sacrifice she made. That is why Im value this copper coin more than a crore of rupees.