Children's Sample
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North American (General)Transcript
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Will you tell us a story? Said the Queen, one that is instructive and full of learning. Yes, but was something in it to laugh at! Said the King. Certainly, he replied, and commenced at once. There was once a bundle of matches that were exceedingly proud of their high descent, their genealogical tree, that is a great pine tree from which they had been cut. Was that one time a large old tree in the wood? The match is now lay between a tinderbox and an old iron saucepan. And we're talking about their youthful dates. Mm hmm. Then we grew on the green boughs, said they. And every morning and evening we were fed with diamond drops of dew. Whenever the sun shone, we felt his warm rays, and the little birds would relate stories to us in their songs. This is how such high born people as we came to be in a kitchen. Mine has been a very different fate, said the iron pot, which stood by the matches. I am the first in this house, when anything solid or useful is required. My only pleasure is to be made clean and shining after dinner, and to sit in my place and have a little sensible conversation with my neighbors, all of us accepting the water bucket, which is sometimes taken into the courtyard. Live here together within these four walls we get our news from the market basket, but it sometimes tells us very unpleasant things about the people and the government. You are talking too much, said the tinderbox, and the steel struck against the flint until some sparks flew out crying. We want to marry evening, don't we?