1. Use the reading process to guide you in your reading of the following story.

• Skim the title and story quickly
• Predict what the story is about
• Think of questions to answer while you read
• Read the story once without stopping
• Read the story again carefully
• Answer the questions

The Devil’s Potato Field

(This Legend is found in Northern New Brunswick)

There was a farmer who dug his potatoes on Sunday and he said neither God nor the Devil would stop him. So he worked his field every day and when he returned the next day all his potatoes had turned to stones. So ever after that the neighbours called his field the Devil ‘s potato field. They have taken tons and tons of stones from that field yet the stones are always as numerous as before.