FEEDING A BIG FAMILY

Aling Narda called her six

children for breakfast. She served them
all the fried fish and rice she cooked.
When the children sat at the table and
began to eat, the food was finished in a
short time.
“Mother”, is there some more rice?”
asked Pedro. He had eaten slowly and
had taken only a small amount of rice.
Mother brought the scorched rice
from the pot.
“This is the only rice left, Pedro,” she
said. “Eat it”.
“But Mother, you will have none to
eat,” Pedro said.
Mother could not speak. There was
little food to cook and she had six
children. It was hard to feed a big
family.