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“No Rachael, stay out.” Morley’s voice sounded harsher than Rachael had ever heard it, and she stepped back quickly, letting the latch fall back into place.
When the last of the animals had left the enclosure, Morley closed the gate on the far side and came towards her. “Sorry sweetie, I didn’t mean to sound angry. But it’s too dangerous to come into a corral full of big animals, and that Jezebel cow is pretty mean at times.”
“But you go in there.”
Morley pushed his straw hat back and scratched his head. “Well, yeah. But, as you may have noticed, I’m bigger than you.”
She knew he was teasing her. She looked up at his twinkling eyes and giggled.
She trotted beside him as they walked towards the barn. “Bobby says he wants to be a farmer when he grows up.”
“That’s good,” Morley said. “We need lots of farmers to grow food for everyone in the world.”
Rachael kicked at a clod of dirt as she thought about that. “But farmers don’t grow every kind of food, do they? Most food comes from the store.”
Morley chuckled. “Yes, you buy food at the store, but the store gets it from the farmer.”
Rachael looked up. “How? How do you grow a loaf of bread, or a box of cereal?”
Morley stopped walking and looked down at her, and she was happy to see he didn’t look worried anymore. “Well, you know, Rachael, it’s like this. I’m a farmer, and I plant the seed that grows into a plant – wheat for instance – and then it’s made into flour which the baker uses to make the loaf of bread.”
He was looking at her with a smile on his kind lips, but she still didn’t understand. “But how does it grow into a plant after you put it in the ground?”
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