English

THE FROG-KING; OR, IRON HENRY IN old times, when wishing was having, there lived a King whose daughters were all beautiful, but the youngest was so beautiful that the sun itself, which has seen so much, was astonished whenever it shone in her face. Close by the King’s castle lay a great dark forest, and under an old lime-tree in the forest, was a fountain. When the day was very warm, the King’s Child went out into the forest and sat down by the side of the cool fountain, and when she was dull she took a golden ball, and threw it up in the air and caught it.

This story is called Winnie and the Pooh and the Flood, written by A.A. Milne and narrated by Madeline Walton-Hadlock. This is a LibraryCall adaptation and recording. It rained and it rained and it rained for days and days and days. Piglet sat looking out of his window, which was about half way up a medium sized tree. He thought to himself, “never in all my life have I seen so much rain!