Summarise the prose The Earth.
Or, Write the summary of The Earth.
Ans. All that the Johnson had was the earth-very often it seemed as if it
were all they had ever had.
It was true that they also had possessions-a plough, a two-wheeled cart,
tools, a bony brown mare which slowly dragged the plough and the cart about
their rough four-acre plot-but without the earth these things were useless. It was
true that they also had a son.
It was more than thirty years since the Johnsons, realising that he was not
quite like others, had taken Benjy to a Doctor. This doctor had persuaded them
that he needed interests that would strengthen his mind. It would be good if they
gave him something to do, some occupation, which would help his development.
It would help a great deal if they gave him a special interest to feed him sense of
responsibility, you are people on the land, the doctor said, let him keep hens.
So for many years Benjy had kept hens, and what the earth was to him
mother and father the hens were to Benjy they were almost all he had. When he
came from school, cut off by his simplicity from other children, Benjy went
straight home to his hens, which He kept in a wire coop that his father had made
at the back of the house. At first he kept Ten or a dozen hens, all colours and
breeds, brown and specked and black and white, and the coop was small. He fed
the hens simply, on scraps from the table, seeded cabbages strung from the write,
a little maize, and on corn-ears which be gleand in the late summer from his
father a core of stuble. It is possible that a hen, being a simple creature thrives
best on simple treatment. Benjy understood the First and last thing about a hen.
That it exists for nor had it become highly complicated and commercialized.
Eggs were cheap, hens mysteriously pecked Nourishment off the bore earth.
They sat in a home-made Nesting-box, on straw, and Laid the eggs expected
of then.
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