Long, long ago these places used to be inhabited by
giants.
Once a giant girl walked about the forest and she
saw a man with six bulls ploughing the soil with a
wooden plough in a clearing. She took the peasant with
the bulls and plough and went home to her mother.
“Look, mother. I have found some insects scratching
the earth. What could they be?”
“My dear, go and put them back where you have
taken them from. Let them go in peace and don’t kill
them. When you come back I’ll tell you.”
The girl took them back and then went home to her
mother.
“Now, mother, tell me what kind of insects were
those?”
“That was a man, who was ploughing the soil with
six bulls. In the distant future, men like this one will
replace us, and they will be the masters of the earth
because we’ll die, all of us, and these people will live
and own this land.”
On hearing those words she grieved. “What! Such
weak crea tures to come instead of us, and we’ll vanish?
Mother, I’ll go and kill him and his bulls.”
“Don’t go. You won’t find him.”
The girl did go. She looked for the man but she
couldn’t find him. He had finished his work and was far
away going home through a forest in a valley.
The girl was so grieved that a tear fell down, and
where it fell currents of water started. The wat er was
whirling down the valley and one of the man’s bulls
was drowned.
In that place where the giant girl’s tear fell, a
spring appeared and a river began there. It was named
the Bîc, for that was how the bull was named.
Since then, the river has been flowing through forests and valleys and has the same name up to now.
Read the text again and write if is True or False .Bring your arguments.
A)The place used to be inhabited by dwarfs.
B)A man with eight wolves was ploughing the soil.
C)The mother told her daughter to kill them
D)The girl went home to her mother
E)The girl found the man
F)The girl was so happy that she was laughing loudly
G)The water was whirling down the valley and one of the mans bulls was drowned.