Mmabotse lived with her granny in a village called Ga-Nchabeleng.

Her mother worked far from home and only returned at the end of the month.

Mmabotse loved her granny very much.

Granny had a large maize field. She went to the field every day to check on the plants.

Her maize grew very tall – so tall that you could not see granny!

Every time Mmabotse came back from school she would call her granny.

“Granny, where are you?” she would shout. But granny couldn’t hear her.

Mmabotse worried when she could not find granny.