BR 2-2Why the sea is salty?

Long ago, the sea wasn’t salty like it is today. Once, it tasted sweet. (p.3)

  This story is interesting!! So the sea was sweet. It wasn’t salty. I cannot believe it. Everyone can drink it. It’s amazing!! If it could drink, I thought everyone would be happy. But the magic millstone appears. This story changed for it. Surprisingly, it can make all things such as gold and jewels or special spices or whatever a person asked for. King had the magic millstone. To hear a rumor, a thief conspired to steal it. If I live in the time, I will do the same thing. A thief went to the palace. And I provoked a guard and got whereabouts of it. He stole it early in the morning and ran away with it to the sea. When he ate some food on a ship night, he came to want salt and made salt. He became happy for salt. Then while he was sleeping, the magic millstone was continuing cooking a dish. A ship sank for it, and a large quantity of salt dissolved in the sea. So the sea became salty!! I did not have this idea. I was surprised!!

Rosie Dickins; Why the sea is salty? London: Usborne, 2009

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