Bremen Town Musicians 🎼
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🗓️ 20 April 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:51.5 | Today's story is a retelling of an old classic. |
| 0:57.2 | A story of some animals that have reached their prime and set out on a new adventure. |
| 1:10.0 | The Bremen Town Musicians. There was once a donkey whose master had made him carry |
| 1:17.0 | sacks to the mill or many a long year, but whose strength began to at last fail, so that |
| 1:28.0 | each day, as it came, found him less capable of work. Then his master began to think of |
| 1:37.3 | turning him out, but the donkey, guessing that something was in the wind that boated no |
| 1:48.0 | good for him, ran away, taking the road to Bremen. Or there, he thought, he might get a job |
| 1:58.8 | as a town musician. When he had gone a little way, he found a dog lying on the ground |
| 2:07.1 | by the side of the road, panting, as if he had run a long way. |
| 2:14.1 | Now, what are you so out of breath about, said the donkey. |
| 2:21.1 | Oh dear, said the dog, now I am old. I get weaker every day and couldn't do no good |
| 2:28.1 | in the hunt. So, as my master was going to put me out to pasture, I have made my escape. |
| 2:37.7 | But now, how am I to earn a living? |
| 2:43.7 | I will tell you what, said the donkey. I am going to Bremen to become a town musician. |
| 2:50.7 | I am going to Bremen to become a town musician. You may as well go with me and take up music |
| 2:58.6 | too. I can play the lute and you can beat the drum. And the dog agreed and they walked |
| 3:08.6 | on together. It was not long before they came to a cat sitting in the road, looking |
| 3:16.6 | as dismal as three wet days. |
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