There was a time when the sky was very low. It was so low that people could touch it if they raised their hands. Now, in a village there lived an old woman all by herself. One day, she saw that her courtyard was very dirty. She picked her broomstick up and swept the ground so fast and so hard that it raised a storm of dust. In a minute, her house and the entire village were covered with dust. When the dust reached the sky, it started coughing and sneezing. It was such a loud sneeze that the whole village shook! People ran hurriedly got scared that the sky might fall. But the old woman kept sweeping unaware of what was happening. After a while, it became so intolerable for the sky that he moved higher and higher and swore never to come down again.
The Sky and the Old Woman
