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Have you ever seen an opal?

It is a beautiful stone associated with the month of October.

In this story, we will hear a story of how the opal came to be so beautiful.

The story of the opal.

The sun was shining brightly one day and a little sunbeam

slid down his golden ladder and crept unseen under the leaves of a large tree.

All the sunbeams are in reality tiny sun fairies who run down to earth on golden ladders,

which look to us like rays of the sun.

When they see a cloud coming, they climb their ladders in an instant

and draw them up after them into the sun.

The sun is ruled by a mighty fairy who every morning tells his tiny servants the beams

where they are to shine and every evening counts them on their return to see he has the right number.

It is not known but the sun and moon are enemies and that is why they never shine at the same time.

The fairy of the moon is a woman and all her beams are tiny women

who calm down on the loveliest little ladders like the reds of silver.

No one knows why the sun and moon quarreled once they were very good friends

but now they are enemies and the sunbeams and moonbeams may not play together.

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