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W-B-U-R Podcasts. Boston. As you're listening right now, the Circle Round team is in Alaska, where we're grateful to be performers and participants in the Alaska World Arts Festival.

We head back to the Lower 48 soon, so this week we're bringing you an encore edition of Circle

Round, a special episode from the archives that's become a true listener favorite.

Not to give away too much, but it involves a goddess, a chameleon, and some seriously

fabulous fashion. Enjoy!

Think about some of your talents, your special skills.

Do you write poetry? Play soccer?

Maybe you can make up tricky riddles or make other people laugh.

We all have special strengths, and in the story we're about to hear

one character uses his talents to help another character meet her match. where story time happens all the time.

Today our story is called Camellians Contest.

Versions of this tale originally come from the Igbo people of Nigeria in West Africa.

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