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Hi, Rebecca Shear here.

If you've been listening to Circle Round lately,

then you know we've been taking time off as we gear up for our WBUR podcast's ninth season, featuring dozens of folk tales from around the globe and an exciting lineup of live episode recordings across the U.S.

We'll be back with one of those live episodes recorded at Tanglewood, summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, next week.

For now, we're pleased to present a special encore edition of the podcast,

a fantastic folk tale you may have missed the first time around.

Enjoy!

An author, poet, and playwright named Oscar Wilde once said,

Ordinary riches can be stolen.

Real riches cannot.

What did he mean by that?

Well, ordinary riches are things you can buy with money, like jewels, cars, and fancy clothes. And riches

like that could be taken away. But real riches are the ones that can't be taken, because

they're what you have on the inside. Things like kindness, honesty, and compassion. And as we'll

hear in today's story, those riches are truly

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