"It's really getting bad now," exclaimed the man. "I hope it passes
quickly." It did not pass quickly. For an hour the hail rained on the house,
the garden, the hillside, the corn field, on the whole valley. The field was
white, as if covered with salt.
Not a leaf remained on the trees. The corn was totally destroyed. The
flowers were gone from the plants. Lencho's soul was filled with sadness.
When the storm had passed, he stood in the middle of the field and said to
his sons, A plague of locusts would have no corn." That night was a
sorrowful one.
"All our work, for nothing.
"There's no one who can help us."
"We'll all go hungry this year."
ORAL COMPREHENSION CHECK
1. Why did Lencho hope for?
2. Why did Lencho say the raindrops were like 'new coins'?
3. How did the rain change? What happened to Lencho's fields?
4 . What were Lencho's feelings when the hail stropped?
But in the hearts of all who lived In that solitary house in the middle of the
valley, there was a single hope: help from God
"Don't' be so upset, ever though this seems like a total loss. Remember,
no one dies of hunger."
"That's what they say: no one dies of hunger."
All through the night, Lencho thought only of his one hope: the help of
God, whose eyes, as he had been
instructed, see everything, even what is deep in one's conscience. Lencho
was an ox of a man, working like a animal in the fields, but skill he knew
how to write. The following Sunday, at daybreak, he began to write a
letter which he himself would carry to town and place in the main. It was
nothing less than a letter to God.
"God", he wrote, "if you don't help me, my family and will go hungry this
year. I need a hundred pesos in order to sow my field again and to live
until the crop comes, because the hailstorm..."
He wrote To God on the envelope, put the letter inside and, still troubled,
went to town. At the pst office, he placed a stamp on the letter and
dropped it into the mailbox.
quickly." It did not pass quickly. For an hour the hail rained on the house,
the garden, the hillside, the corn field, on the whole valley. The field was
white, as if covered with salt.
Not a leaf remained on the trees. The corn was totally destroyed. The
flowers were gone from the plants. Lencho's soul was filled with sadness.
When the storm had passed, he stood in the middle of the field and said to
his sons, A plague of locusts would have no corn." That night was a
sorrowful one.
"All our work, for nothing.
"There's no one who can help us."
"We'll all go hungry this year."
ORAL COMPREHENSION CHECK
1. Why did Lencho hope for?
2. Why did Lencho say the raindrops were like 'new coins'?
3. How did the rain change? What happened to Lencho's fields?
4 . What were Lencho's feelings when the hail stropped?
But in the hearts of all who lived In that solitary house in the middle of the
valley, there was a single hope: help from God
"Don't' be so upset, ever though this seems like a total loss. Remember,
no one dies of hunger."
"That's what they say: no one dies of hunger."
All through the night, Lencho thought only of his one hope: the help of
God, whose eyes, as he had been
instructed, see everything, even what is deep in one's conscience. Lencho
was an ox of a man, working like a animal in the fields, but skill he knew
how to write. The following Sunday, at daybreak, he began to write a
letter which he himself would carry to town and place in the main. It was
nothing less than a letter to God.
"God", he wrote, "if you don't help me, my family and will go hungry this
year. I need a hundred pesos in order to sow my field again and to live
until the crop comes, because the hailstorm..."
He wrote To God on the envelope, put the letter inside and, still troubled,
went to town. At the pst office, he placed a stamp on the letter and
dropped it into the mailbox.
