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35 Many years ago there lived a cunning farmer. He had never made any use of a certain little hill which stood
on his land, and one day he made up his mind to plough its grassy slopes to make a new field.
No sooner had he begun to work, than a dwarf appeared and in a very angry voice, demanded to know why
the farmer was ploughing up the roof of his house.
The farmer explained that he wished to plough the ground in order to grow crops, and tried hard to
persuade the little man to allow him to go on peacefully with his work.
“No !” said the dwarf. “I will not have my roof broken up, and my sleep disturbed.”
“Don’t you see ?” said the farmer, “that if I grow food on this land we shall both be better off ? Look here.
Let me use the ground. I will do all the work, and I promise that you shall have a share of the crops I grow.”
“The first year you shall have all that grows below the ground, and I will have what grows above it. The next
year you shall have all that grows above and I will take what grows below.”
This seemed quite fair to the dwarf, and he allowed the farmer to plough the ground. But the artful farmer
grew wheat on the land the first year and carrots the next.
a. What made a dwarf not allowed a farmer to plough the ground?
b. What did the dwarf allow the farmer to plough the ground
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the dwarf didn't allowed the farmer to plough the ground as the farmer was ploughing up the roof of the dwarf's house
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