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Mother Nature.

On the continent that we call Africa there is a huge desert called the Sahara. Very little grows in this huge desert, here and there one finds an Oasis. Oases are really a small area with fruit trees. Underground there is water, which comes to the surface causing a spring of water to bubble up to the ground. It is this spring water that allows trees to grow in this very hot climate. The People that live here in the desert are called Arabs.

Mother Nature flew around the world looking at the vast waste spaces such as the Gobi Desert; in fact she visited all of the World’s Deserts. This visiting of the deserts took place many thousands of years ago, it was mother nature that caused the bubbling springs of water to come to the surface. The desert Arabs traded with the Arabs that lived in the coastal regions such as Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya right down to Egypt. Date palms grow in the so-called coastal regions, as do many other fruits.

Arabs use Camels for long journeys, Camels can go a few days without drinking water the hump on their backs is a food reservoir and they live in between feeds and drinks from these humps. When many Camels carrying things to trade or sell go on a journey we call this a caravan. One of these caravans was carrying dates from the coastal regions to the Arabs living in the Sahara. One of the Arab children collected all the Date stones that were left after eating the fruit and took them out to the ground. The child used the date stones to make up a game that it could play with the other children living in the Oasis.

The child hid the date stones by burying them in the earth near the little stream of water that came from the spring. Most of the date stones were not found and soon the children forgot all about them. Each of these date stones produced a Palm Tree that too gave off a harvest of the rich juicy dates that until now had been brought to the Oasis by the caravans from the coastal regions. The same child every time a caravan arrived with dates collected the date stones and hid them too in the ground. Soon the ground of the oasis became filled with date palms.

It was Mother Nature that put the idea into the child’s brain while it was sleeping; it was her way of helping the people living in the desert. In other deserts of the world Mother Nature planted cactus bushes many of which hold water. The people living in these deserts know about the cactus that holds water, In other the roots of certain plants holds water here too the people know where to dig to get at the deserts precious life saving water. Why did Mother Nature go to all of this trouble to help the Humans?

The fairies that came here from a far distant planet way out in space went all over the world looking for places tom live Weather wise the deserts would be ideal it rarely rains and the Fairies would not have to worry about getting their wings wet. With wet wings no fairy can fly so they chose land where trees and bushes grow Europe was Ideal and the Fairies soon spread our all over Europe, Canada, America and everywhere where there was trees and bushes. Under the Himalayan Mountains they found huge underground caves. These cave were turned by magic into forests of fruit trees, Flowers and everywhere one can find Fairy Cottages one prettier than the other. It is to these caves that the Fairies go in winter. They take with them all the butterflies of this world. The entrances to the caves Mother Nature to help the Fairies caused huge avalanches (Land-slides) to block the openings. One can only enter the caves by using magic. This was Mother Natures way of helping the Fairies all those years ago, to show their gratitude the Fairies took over the work of colouring this Earth. This was the fairies way of thanking Mother Nature.