The article is a critique on Agaton Pal and Robert Polson’s book Rural People’s Responses to Change, a descriptive study of rural people, its insight into their way of life basically gleaned from statistical trends and growth indicators. Author noted the book to have come short of its intention to depict a clear complete picture of the rural folk when it has failed to pull together and make sense of all the statistics and trends it presented. The story was lost in the telling, the author points out.