Paul was a very rich man, but he never spent any of his
money. He was scared that someone would steal it. He
pretended to be poor and wore dirty old clothes. People
laughed at him, but he didn’t care. He only cared about his
money.
One day, he bought a big lump of gold. He hid it in a hole by a tree. Every night, he wentto the hole to look at his treasure. He sat and he looked. ‘No one will ever find my gold!’
he said.
But one night, a thief saw Paul looking at his gold. And when Paul went home, the thief
picked up the lump of gold, slipped it into his bag and ran away!
The next day, Paul went to look at his gold, but it wasn’t there. It had disappeared! Paul
cried and cried! He cried so loud that a wise old man heard him. He came to help. Paul
told him the sad tale of the stolen lump of gold. ‘Don’t worry,’ he said. ‘Get a big stone
and put it in the hole by the tree.’
‘What?’ said Paul. ‘Why?’
‘What did you do with your lump of gold?’
‘I sat and looked at it every day,’ said Paul.
‘Exactly,’ said the wise old man. ‘You can do exactly the same with a stone.’
Paul listened, thought for a moment and then said, ‘Yes, you’re right. I’ve been very silly.
I don’t need a lump of gold to be happy!’

Emmeline Pankhurst was born in Manchester, in the north of England,
in 1858. Back then British women couldn’t vote in elections, but men
could.
Emmeline went to school in Paris, France. As she grew up she became
interested in politics and wanted to create a more equal society for
women and men. She wanted women to have the same rights as men, such as the right to a
education, the right to have a good job and, perhaps most importantly, the right to vote.
In 1888, the girls who worked at the Bryant and May match factory in London went on strike. They
stopped working and asked the owner of the factory to improve their terrible working conditions.
They worked 14 hours a day and were fined for dropping matches on the floor. Many of the girls were
ill because they worked with dangerous chemicals. Emmeline supported the strike.
Emmeline formed The Women’s Social and Political Union, also called the Suffragettes, in 1903. The
Suffragettes were a group who fought for women’s rights, especially the right to vote. They published
a newspaper called Votes for Women which sold 20,000 copies a week.
The Suffragettes also held demonstrations, and they often broke the law by smashing windows or
chaining themselves to fences to protest. In 1913, a Suffragette called Emily Davison was killed when
she threw herself under the king’s horse at a famous horse race, as a protest because the
government refused to give women the right to vote.
In 1918, the British government gave women aged over 30 the right to vote, although men could vote
when they were 21. Women were finally allowed to vote at the same age as men shortly after
Emmeline died on 14 June 1928. Emmeline Pankhurst is sometimes described as one of the most
influential people of the 20th century.

There’s some milk on the table.

There is no flour.

There are some eggs.

There is some lemonade on the table.

There aren’t any apples on the table.

There aren’t any carrots on the table.