Sunday, April 13, 2008

A berry-good surprise

Assalamualaykum!! Alhamdullillah me and my sister made a big discovery right in our own backyard! We were playing in our backyard when I ran into our house to get something. Right when I was coming out my sister was at the door and told me she found a short tree with some strange fruits that look like raspberries.I ran with her to the tree and at the first glance I said that they were mulberries. And I turned out to be right! All that afternoon we played with mulberries while my father and grandfather cleaned the backyard.Of course we helped a little.Then my mother came to see us how we were working and we showed her the mulberries.
She said she would try one and see how it tastes. She said it tasted sour and doubted if it was a mulberry or not. After she had gone back into the house I asked my sister to try a berry. She ate one and and said it was sweet. I was confused. Then my grandfather came to us and he said he wanted to see this tree that we called a mulberry tree. He said that they were mulberries.Suddenly he grabbed a branch of the tree and popped all the berries he could find into his mouth. He also said that he had eaten a few when he was young and said that the tree would grow bigger.I immediately ran into the house and told the good news to my mother that the berries were edible.Then I hurried to the computer and looked up the word read a sentence that said that mulberries are sweet and edible. That was our new discovery.

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