Generosity Story

Story title: Generosity
By: Edmund Fuller

   This story is about an earthquake in China. When it happened, a farmer was standing on a hilltop surrounded by his rice fields. Suddenly he saw the ocean rush away from the shore like some large animal crouching for a leap. He knew that leap would be a devastating tidal wave.
   He saw his neighbors working in the low rice fields, and when that tidal wave came back, they would all be swept away by its force. Somehow he had to call them to the safety of his hill.