Quotations of ch 1 of class 10 english
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to God
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CBSE Chapter Wise Question Bank for Class 10 English First Flight Chapter 1 A Letter to God
CBSE Class 10 English First Flight Chapter 1 Summary
Lencho was a poor but hardworking farmer. His house was on the top of a hill and that was the only house in the valley. He hoped for a good crop, but his fields needed rain or at least a shower. He waited for the rain and it did come. One day it started drizzling. In the beginning, Lencho felt the falling rain drops as ‘new silver coins’ falling from the sky. But gradually the rain changed into a hail storm. The hailstones fell for an hour. It destroyed his crop completely. Lencho’s soul was filled with sadness. He thought that they would go hungry the whole year unless they found someone who could help them. Suddenly his heart was filled with hope. He had firm faith in God. Lencho knev/how to read and write. The following Sunday, he wrote a letter to God mentioning his destroyed crop and asked him to sow his field again. Then he put the letter in an envelope; addressed it to ‘God’ and went to the post-office. He affixed a stamp on it and dropped it in the mail-box.
The postman, who took the letter out of the mail-box saw the letter and showed it to the postmaster. Everyone in the post office had a hearty laugh. But immediately the postmaster realised the man’s unshakable faith in God. He decided to help the man. He discussed with his colleagues and all of them decided to part with some money for an act of charity. They collected money, put it in an envelope and addressed it to Lencho. This letter contained a single word in the form of a signature : God.