Redacción Inglés 1ºcapítulo The No. 1 Ladies´Detective Agency

Chapter One

The Daddy

Mma Ramotswe had a detective agency in Africa, at the foot of Kgale Hill. She was only lady
private detective inBotswana. Mma Ramotswe had intuition and intelligence in abundance.
Everybody called her Mma Ramotswe, although if people had wanted to be formal, they would
have addressed her as Mme Mma Ramotswe. Thisis the right thing for a person of stature, but
which she had never used of herself. She was a good detective, and a good woman.
She loved her country, Botswana, which is a place of peace, and sheloved Africa, for all its trials.
She loves all the people whom God made, but she especially know how to love the people who
live in this place. It is her duty to help them to solve the mysteries intheir lives. That is what she´s called to do.
Mma Ramotswe set up the No. 1 Ladies´ Detective Agency with the proceeds of the sale of her
Father´s cattle. He had owned a big herd, and had no otherchildren; so every single beast, all one hundred and eighty of them, including the white Brahmin bulls whose grandparents he had bred himself, went to her. The cattle were moved from the cattle post,back to Mochudi where they waited, in the dust, under the eyes of the chattering herd boys, until the livestock agent came.
They fetched a good price, as there had been heavy rains that year, and thegrass had been lush.
Had it been the year before, when most of that southern part of Africa had been racked by
Drought, it would have been a different matter. People had dithered then, wanting tohold on to
their cattle, as without your cattle you were naked; others, feeling more desperate, sold, because
the rains had failed year after year and they had seen the animals become thinner andthinner.
Mma Ramotswe was pleased that her father´s illness had prevented his making any decision, as
now the price had gone up and those who had held on were well rewarded. The father said to
her on...