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1. 0:13The First Well
2. 0:16Retold by BookBox
3. 0:21There once was
4. 0:22a small kingdom
5. 0:24around a lake.
6. 0:27One very hot summer,
7. 0:29it did not rain
8. 0:30and the
9. 0:31lake dried up.
10. 0:35People grew anxious
11. 0:37and went to the King.
12. 0:42“It has not rained
13. 0:45for so long.
14. 0:45Our fields are barren!”
15. 0:47said the farmers.
16. 0:51“There are no fish to catch.
17. 0:54How shall we earn a living?”
18. 0:57asked the fishermen.
19. 1:01“Save us from disaster,
20. 1:03good King,”
21. 1:06urged the women,
22. 1:08as their children cried with thirst.
23. 1:17The King sent his four generals
24. 1:19in all directions
25. 1:21to look for water.
26. 1:26The first general
27. 1:27went east,
28. 1:29towards the sunrise;
29. 1:31the second went south,
30. 1:33to the dust and heat;
31. 1:36the third went west,
32. 1:39where the sun sets;
33. 1:42and the fourth followed
34. 1:44the North Star.
35. 2:00They searched day and night,
36. 2:03night and day;
37. 2:06high and low
38. 2:08they searched everywhere,
39. 2:11but in vain.
40. 2:15Three of the generals returned,
41. 2:17empty-handed.
42. 2:21But the general
43. 2:23who had gone north
44. 2:25was determined not to fail
45. 2:26his King.
46. 2:28At last, he reached
47. 2:31a cold
48. 2:32mountain village.
49. 2:37As he sat
50. 2:38at the foot of the mountain,
51. 2:39an old woman came by
52. 2:41and sat next to him.
53. 2:45The general pointed
54. 2:46at the horizon
55. 2:48and said,
56. 2:51“I belong to
57. 2:52a beautiful kingdom,
58. 2:54where it has not rained
59. 2:56for a whole year.
60. 2:58Can you help
61. 2:59me find water?”
62. 3:03The woman motioned
63. 3:05the general
64. 3:07to follow her
65. 3:07up the mountain
66. 3:09and into a cave.
67. 3:14“We have no water in our country
68. 3:15either,”
69. 3:17she said.
70. 3:21Then, pointing to the icicles
71. 3:23in the cave,
72. 3:25she continued:
73. 3:26“We call this ice.
74. 3:29Take some,
75. 3:31and your kingdom
76. 3:33will never go thirsty again.”
77. 3:36The general broke
78. 3:38off a huge piece,
79. 3:46loaded it onto his horse-cart
80. 3:48and rushed back home.
81. 4:12By the time he reached the court,
82. 4:16the enormous icicle had melted
83. 4:19into a
84. 4:20small lump of ice.
85. 4:24Nobody in the court
86. 4:25had ever seen ice,
87. 4:27so everybody gazed at it
88. 4:28with wonder.
89. 4:36“This must be
90. 4:37a water-seed!”
91. 4:39one of the ministers
92. 4:40exclaimed suddenly.
93. 4:43The King ordered the ‘water-seed’
94. 4:45to be sowed immediately.
95. 4:53While the farmers dug a hole,
96. 4:56the lump
97. 4:57dwindled in the sun.
98. 5:00They swiftly
99. 5:01placed the seed in the hole,
100. 5:03but before they could cover it up,
101. 5:05it had vanished.
102. 5:09The farmers there grew confused
103. 5:11and worried.
104. 5:17They dug deeper and deeper
105. 5:18into the earth,
106. 5:20all night long,
107. 5:21looking for
108. 5:22the mysterious seed.
109. 5:34At the break of dawn,
110. 5:36the King found the farmers
111. 5:38fast asleep around a hole.
112. 5:42Curious, he
113. 5:44peeped in
114. 5:46and cried out in amazement:
115. 5:50“Wake up, my worthy men –
116. 5:53the water-seed
117. 5:54has sprouted!
118. 5:56There’s water in the hole!”
119. 6:05This is how the
120. 6:07first well was created.