Helping The Helpless

There are lots of helpless people in our country.Beggers are not the only helpless people.There may be others who are desperate and helpless on certain occasions.When a person falls into trouble he becomes helpless.if there is nobody to give him a helping hand.so,it is the duty of everybody to do some sevice and be helpful to those who are poor and helpless.

There are so many people.boys,girls,men and women who become helpless due to natural disasters.
There are also people who have nobody to look after them.The physically and mentally handicapped people are also helpless.It is a noble habbit to help these helpless people.

The begger is undoubtedly a helpless person.Most of them cannot do a job to make their day to day
exisence.So they have no way of earning money.They beg for food.Clothing and money,most frequently to them and to feed their young and helpless family members.Therefore,it is our duty to help them whenever they come to us in search of help..

Our country is not rich country.there are lots of helpless people who do not even have their daily
meals.some do not have anything to cover their bodies.some have no houses.There are poor beggers who spend their nights in pavements in towns.Some of the elderly people are also helpless.

The social services Department is trying to help these helpless people.It gives assistance to some of them.Most of the helpless people get samurdhi assistance from the government.But that meagre some of money is not sufficient for their living.That is why well-to-do people should help them.

A lot of wealthy people are there who do not even look at helpless people.They drive away beggers without giving them at least some food to eat.This is a very bad habit.We as small children should always try to help the helpless.

The Eagle and the fox

An eagle seized a fox cub and made to carry it off.The mother fox begged him to have pity.The eagle refused."What can she do to me? " he thought."My nest is high up in a pine tree.She can't reach it."
                                     

And he carried the fox cub away.The mother fox ran to the field,took a fire brand from the men there and carried it to the pine tree.She was about to set fire to it, when the eagle begged forgiveness and gave her back her cub..

The Tree Planting Campaign

Tree is a friend of man.The tree gives us good air and also good foods.If there are no trees we cannot get foods at all.The tree also gives us shelter.We can get timber from the tree and our homes.

Not only in the village,but also in the towns we can see people have planted trees by the side of the road.Even in many places of the colombo city there are trees grown with the aim of giving shelter to the people.

Due to the indiscriminate fellings of trees.now we do not get seasonal rains peoperly.Therefore, it has been necessary for us to plant more and more trees and get sufficient rain for cultivation purposes and also for drinking.

This year's tree planting campaign started in kandy under the patronage of the prime minister.The prime minister inaugurated the campaign by planting a na sapling in the Botanical garden at peradeniya.After the inauguration,he said that we should try to plant more and more trees without which the people will not be in a position to make their existence.

There was a programme to plant one million trees throughout the country.My father said that planting one million trees would not be sufficient.He said we had to plant as many trees as possible.

The recent drought is the result of indiscriminate felling of trees by unscrupulous people who do not know the value of trees or the environment.We suffered a lot because of this drought.There was no water for  cultiation purposes.In most of the areas in the dry zone,people could not easily find even drinking water.

Therefore,tree planting has become a must.Everybody should try to plant more and more  trees wherever possible.If this does not happen, the entrire country would be a desert before long.. 

The Story Of Rivers

           


Rivers are vital carriers of water and nutrients to areas all around the earth.The world is blessed with hundreds of thousands of rivers which apart from their beauty play a vital role in nature.They are of great importance geographically,biologically,historically and culturally.

There are rivers in every continent except Antarctica.Rivers are an important part of the earth's topography as they carry huge quantities of water to the sea from the land."

In simple words a river is fresh water flowing across the surface of the land usually to the sea.It flows in a channel of which the bottom is called the bed and the sides of the channel are called the banks.

The rivers flow downstream starting from the highest point of an area and gain more water from other streams, rivers, Springs, added rainfall and other water sources.


Rivers bogin in mountains or hills where rain water or snow collects and from tiny streams called gullies.These gullies either grow larger when they collect more water and become streams themselves or meet stream and to the water already in the stream.
 


Most of the rivers end when they flow into a large body of water and the end of the water is called the mouth.                                                


There is usually a river delta at the mouth.It is a large,silty area where the river splits into many different slow-flowing channels with muddy banks.At the source of a river the water is usually pure.


As the water blows downstream it picks up silts and mineral salts from the soil and rock.Many other chemicals enter the river water as it flows downstream.

The Sea, The River And The Streams

 

One man boasted to another that he could drink a lot."I could drink up the whole sea," he said.

                                  " You Couldn't."

"Yes,I could.I bet you a thousand roubles.I will drink up the whole sea."

Next morning they came to the and said,"Go and drink up sea or give us a thousand roubles!.."


" I said  I would drink up the sea and I will," he said, "But I didn't say I would drink the rivers.Dam the rivers and streams so the water does not flow in to the sea,then I'll drink it up.."

The Most Interesting Book I Read

Our school library was not so rich.But there are books which I like very much.One of my friends one day showed me a certain book in the library and said that it was his favourite book.He also said that it was the second part of the most famous Adventures of Huckleberry Finn written by Mark Twain.

I borrowed the book from the librarian on the advice of my friend.When I went home that day,I had an immediate lunch, went to my room and started reading the book.

How ineresting was it! It was a wonderful book.The book was full of adventures.The was a wonderful book.The main character was Huckleberry Finn who was a poor English boy whose father was a third class drunkard.This father wanted to get his son's fortune which he got previously in yet another adventure with Tom Sawyer,his friend.so Finn runs away from the custody of his father and meets another boy.This boy was Jim who had been running away from his master.He had been a slave boy.

The two friends go to the sea and get on to a ship.They also go to various islands in the sea and engage themselves in many adventures.At last they come home.Finn finds that his father had died and he was no more in danger.Jim also gets his freedom with Finn's help.

This interesting children's novel had been written by well-known English Author Mark Twain who had previously written the famous book Tom Sawyer.Both these books are popular even today.So many millions of children throughout the English speaking world must have read these books.Much more than Tom Sawyer,it was the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn which was the most interesting book I have ever read.