It was just like the next morning: the formerly dry land was crossed by streams of water as by routes. And yet something had happened everywhere small green sprouts protruded from many different plants from the earth. Long had rested there have seeds, which has now received by the unexpected new life and rose water. From now on, the man could every day when he let his gaze wander over the surrounding country, watch as the land of green and the shoots were stronger. After a few weeks, the limit of his country's recent desert recognize only the basis of the end of the canal dug by him.
Soon the news spread of this little green miracle in the desert. In the market were finally not only fruits, animals, ropes, baskets and the like acting but also the latest news from the surrounding farms and a few scattered villages. This allowed the man to discover one morning a column of smoke over the country and on closer look, a small group of tents. Quietly, almost secretly, he approached the spot, because he wanted to see first what was going on, without being detected immediately. A few people had settled there with their tents and a few lean goats, fruits collected from the now-grown shrubs and dug a few strips of earth around a small field.
The man went back and did the whole long way back, not quite sure what to make of this new development. A little bit of anger, and that these people now from the water source of its benefit, without having to create a single time for this hand. He did however have to work hard for years to maintain its sewer system in order to cultivate his fields. He did come forward a little unfair. Finally, however, continued nevertheless be recognition that many use the water for himself and his family nothing but harm even in the worst case would be. So he decided to come to terms with the people who settled around him. For this first group quickly followed and soon many more could be seen next to the tents and distributed first, fixed huts.
The man, who had never had in real life his neighbors did, first time not know how to deal with these newcomers. So he avoided a long while all contact with them. His neighbors in this time hardly dared to approach the house of the man who for so long had lived here before them. Finally, however, the man took a heart and took the first step. Maybe to take possible evil intentions with the evidence of his good will the top. Anyway, he sent his children out into the surrounding country to invite all the new neighbors on his farm to a big party.
They all came and everyone brought a gift. The man came out of the amazement did not get out, what a variety of fruits now grown in the former desert. Some he knew even back when hardly any well. He had a dirty, often seen from ulcers and wounds figures on the market, where he usually drove angry side when she approached him at the booths to some money to beg for food. How different she looked now: the wounds healed, clean and almost happy they looked. One or two even brought one of his once-lean goat that looked now as if they would make a good roast. The festival was, in short, very long time and it was also by far not the only one in next time.
But not only people attracted to the new abundance of water. At the edges of the new green country, where some smaller streams collected in shallow pools and no longer had the strength to continue to flow, supplied themselves many wild animals. Such a diversity of people had seen before: there were drinking alongside gazelle lion Hyenas find zebras, and even some sheep in the herd feasted on the same water hole. Never saw it break out panic, never was the loss of a herd animal, to complain and never found the remains of dead prey on the edge of water bodies. Some who watched the doings there a little longer, could not avoid the impression that there seemed to be a degree of familiarity between the prey and their predators. But we never talked about this strange harmony that prevailed between the animals there. At the very contrary to every experience you had when that ran out of something other than the cruel things in life would have happened when no human eye witnessed.
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