The first well.

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The first well

There once was a small k........... around a l..........

One very hot s.........r, it did not rain and the lake dried up.

People grew anxious and went to the k.....

“It has not rained for so long our f........ are barren!” said the farmers.

“There is no f...... to catch how shall we earn a living?” asked the fishermen.

“Save us from disaster, good king,” urged the w.........

as the ch.......... cried with thirst.

The king sent his four g.......... to search for w........ in all directions.

The first general went e......, towards the sunrise;

the s............ to the south, to dust and heat;

the third went west, where the s..... sets;

and the fourth followed the N........ Star.

They searched day and n........., night and day; high and low, they s..........

everywhere, but in vain. Three of the g........... returned, empty-handed.

But the general who had gone north, determined not to fail his k......

finally reached a cold m........... village.

As he sat at the foot of the mountain,

an old w.......... came by and sat next to him.

The g.......... pointed at the horizon and said,

“I belong to a beautiful k.........., where it has not rained for a whole y.......

Can you help me find w........?”

The woman motioned the g........., to follow her up the m.......... and inside a c....... “We have no water in our c......... either,” she said

Then, pointing at the icicles in the c......, she continued:

“We call this ice, take some and your k.......... will never go thirsty a.........”.

The general broke off a huge p.........

loaded it onto his h........-cart and rushed back home.

By the time he reached the c.........,

the enormous I........ had melted into a small lump of ice.

Nobody in the court had e...... seen ice, so e............. gazed at it with wonder.

This must be a water-s......., one of the ministers exclaimed suddenly.

The k....... order the water-seed to be sowed immediately.

While the farmers dug a h......, the lump dwindled in the s...

They swiftly placed the seed in the hole, but,

b...... they could cover it up, it had vanished.

The farmers there got confused and w.........

They dug the earth deeper and d.........., into the night,

looking for the mysterious s......

At the break of dawn, the king found the f.............. fast asleep around a hole.

Curiously he p............ in, and cried out in amazement.

“Wake up, my worthy men, the w........-seed has sprouted!

There's w....... in the hole!”

This is how the f...... well was created.

Now you can listen, read and watch the story at the same time.

I hope you have enjoyed the story and learnt some new vocabulary (see below and copy the words).

well

kingdom

around a lake

fields are barren

earn a living

thirst

search

sunrise

dust

where the sun sets

high and low

in vain

empty-handed

mountain village

horizon

cave

not either

icicle

huge piece

horse-cart

melted into 

a lump of ice

water-seed

to be sowed

dig dug dug

dwindled

swiftly

vanished

deeper and deeper

at the break of dawn

fast asleep

peeped in

worthy men

sprouted

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