6. Short Story : A Grain as Big as a Hen’s Egg

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Taking help from the information given below, write a story on ‘A Grain as Big as a Hen’s Egg’. You can invent your own details.

Outline: Children found a thing shaped like a grain ……….. a traveller bought it from the children …………  sold to the king …………. asked wise men ……………. it was a grain ……………. when and how was it grown? asked the king ………… an old farmer was called  ………….. he was on two crutches …………… weak and deaf ……………… told he never sowed or reaped anything like that ……………. old fanner’s father was called ………… he walked with one crutch …………. told the same thing ………… the grandfather of the old farmer was called ……………. he was healthy, walked freely …………. could hear clearly ………… told they sowed and reaped such grains ………….. the king asked why his old grandson and son were so weak, miserable and unhealthy …………..the grand old man replied …………. in his old times all land was free …………… there was no money …………..men lived on their own labour ………….. in his grandson’s and son’s time men started grabbing others’ land ………..depended on others’ labour ……………. didn’t live according to God’s law and were miserable

Ans.                                                     A Grain as Big as a Hen’s Egg

 One day some children found a thing shaped like a grain of corn. A traveller bought it from the children for a penny and sold it to the king. The king called together his wise men and told them to find out what the thing was. The wise men told him that it was a grain of corn. The king ordered the wise men to find out when and where such corn had grown. The wise men presented an old farmer. He was pale, toothless and walked on crutches. The old man saw the grain. He told the king that he never sowed or reaped any grain like it in the fields. Perhaps his father could tell him, something about it. The king sent for the old farmer’s father. He was shown the grain but he also didn’t know anything where corn like that grew. He told that perhaps his father would tell something about the grain. The old man’s father was called. He could walk easily and without crutches and spoke clearly. The old grandfather looked at the grain. He told that people used to grow grain like that everywhere a long time ago. “Did you buy it or grow it all yourself?” asked the king. The grand old man told that in his time it was a sin to buy or sell land. They knew nothing of money. Each man had corn enough of his own. Their fields were God’s earth. The land was free. Labour was the only thing men called their own. The king asked why his grandson walked with two crutches and your son with one. He needed no crutches, his teeth were sound, speech clear and hearing perfect. The grand old man answered that his grandson and son made themselves miserable as men had ceased to live in by their own labour. They were miserable as they started depending on the labour of others. The old time’s men lived according to God’s law and had only what was their own.

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