My reading homework 23/5/10

The Legend of the Rice  35min   pages  1-10

In the days when the earth is young and all things are better than they now are when men and women are stronger and of greater beauty and the fruit of the trees is larger and sweeter than that which we now eat, rice, the food of the people is of larger grain. One grain is all a man can eat and in those early days such, too, is the merit of the people they never have to toil gathering the rice, for, when ripe it fall from the stalks and roll into the villages even unto the granaries. And upon a year when the rice is larger and more plentiful than ever before a widow said to her daughter. Our granaries are too small. We will pull them down and build larger.When the old granaries are pull down and the new one not yet ready for use the rice is ripe in the fields. Great haste was made, but the rice came rolling in where the work is going on and the widow, anger, struck a grain and cry "Can you not wait in the fields until we are ready? You shouldn't bother us now when you are not want." The rice broke into thousands of pieces and said "From this time forth, we will wait in the fields until we are want," and from that time the rice has been of small grain and the people of the earth must gather it into the granary from the fields.