Vol - II - IT@School

Notes
What helped Crusoe to reap a rich
harvest?
8. I looked forward to a good crop of barley and rice
after the rainy season. But I was not prepared for
two enemies. The first were long–legged hare like
creatures that would have eaten up all the young
shoots. So I made a fence around the crops to keep
them out. I also tied my pet dog there all night. This
kept the hares away.
9. My next problem was to deal with the birds who
attacked the grains. They were not as easy to get rid
of as the hares. I tried to scare them away by firing
my gun. But they flew away only to the nearby trees
and came back to the fields as soon as I left.
10. I decided to make a scarecrow to drive them away.
So I hung the feathers of the birds I had shot, on
the poles in the fields, hoping it would frighten them
off. I was very glad when my trick succeeded. The
birds flew away and did not return. At the end of
the year, I reaped my crop and had two sacks of rice
and two and a half sacks of barley and I was content
with my attempts in farming.
11. I now had enough grain to bake my bread. I made
some clay jars and baked them in fire. Now I turned
my attention to the job of grinding the grains. I made
a hollow in the centre of a very hard block of wood.
158 English Coursebook VIII