Clever Gertie
Fairy Tales with Granny MacDuff
Little Ears Media
4.4 • 932 Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Gertie is quite a good cook! But, sometimes she likes to taste the food before it's served, and sometimes by the time it's ready to serve, Gertie has gobbled it all up! So when a guest is late to dinner, Gertie decides to taste the chickens she's cooked ... and soon, there is not chicken left! What will Gertie do?
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| 1:17.7 | Good evening, children. It's Granny Madduff, ready with a story. So make yourselves comfy, and I'll begin. |
| 1:30.7 | Once a comfy and I'll begin. Once upon a time there lived a cook who was called Gertie. |
| 1:36.0 | Short for Gertrude, Gertrude, Gertie wore shoes with little red heels and my how she |
| 1:42.4 | did love them. |
| 1:44.1 | When she walked, she loved hearing them click on the floor |
| 1:48.3 | and she would walk left and right and admire them. Gertie worked for a merchant who had a lovely |
| 1:56.1 | manor house. She lived on the grounds in a small cottage and was very pleased with herself at how good a cook she was. |
| 2:04.6 | And it was true. She was quite a good cook. |
| 2:09.6 | However, Gertie also loved to taste the food she was cooking. |
| 2:15.6 | And she would often taste it until she was satisfied, which meant not much of it was left. |
| 2:23.3 | A good cook must try the food they make so they know if it's tasty or not. |
| 2:30.3 | She would say to herself, |
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