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The Honest Woodcutter The story you will be listening to today is The Honest Woodcutter and is being read to you by Daniel. A poor woodcutter was cutting down a tree near the edge of a deep pool in the forest. It was late in the day and the woodcutter was tired. He had been working since sunrise and his strokes were not so sure as they had been early that morning. So it happened that his axe slipped and flew out of his hands into the pool. The woodcutter was extremely anxious and sad. The axe was all he possessed with which to make a living, and he did not have enough money buy a new one.

“The story you will be listening to today is Puss in Boots and is being read to you by Daniel.” ONCE upon a time there was a miller, who was so poor that he had nothing to give to his three children but his mill, his donkey, and his cat.

Maria Tallchief was the first American prima ballerina and the first Native American or Indigenous prima ballerina! What does it mean to be a prima ballerina? Maria Tallchief was the best dancer, and brought great fame to herself and her ballet company. Since "prima" is an Italian word that means "first," Maria performed all the lead roles in the ballets.

WHY THE BEAR HAS A SHORT TAIL One cold morning when the fox was coming up the road with some fish, he met the bear. "Good-morning, Mr. Fox," said the bear. "Good-morning, Mr. Bear," said the fox. "The morning is brighter because I have met you." "Those are very good fish, Mr. Fox," said the bear. "I have not eaten such fish for many a day. Where do you find them?" "I have been fishing, Mr.

This story is called The Fox and the Cat, a traditional Ukrainian folk tale collected by Robert Nisbet Bain and published in Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk-Tales in 1894. This is a LibraryCall adaptation and recording. In a dense forest in Eastern Europe, in a country now known as Ukraine, there once lived a small red fox. Near the fox lived a man with a house cat named Mr. Shaggy Matthew. The cat had once been very good at his job of catching mice in the house and in the garden, but he was now old and partially blind. The man no longer found the cat useful, so one day, he led Mr.