Paricutin

Hill of Fire
by Thomas P. Lewis
Report by JJH
10-5-07

There was a farmer in Mexico who thought nothing ever happened but something did happen. Everyday he would get up early and work in his corn field. And one time he was working in his cornfield when his son Pablo came out to help. Then the ox stopped because it thought there was a rock. But the plow really got stuck in a small hole in the ground.

Pablo and his father heard this rumbling sound and it smelled like rotten egg. Smoke began to come out of the hole and then an explosion! They ran and ran. Then Pablo’s father ran to the town and rang the church bell. Everybody came to the church and prayed. Then they came outside to look if it was still there and it was!

The people ran away to a different place of town. And then they hoped that it would be gone the next day but it wasn’t. Then there were people who came in uniforms that helped all the people move to the other part of town far from the volcano. Too far that the volcano wouldn’t get the people.

The farmer was saved from the volcano. He built another house and a new cornfield. Everyday he could see the glow from the volcano. Sometimes Pablo would get other children to look at the farmer and the children would ask his father, “Are you going to make another hill of fire?”