Old Pipes and the Dryad

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Kids & Family, Health & Fitness, Stories For Kids

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🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Tonight, for our monthly Snoozecast+ Deluxe episode, we’ll read the tale “Old Pipes and the Dryad” by Frank R. Stockton and published in 1894. Stockton was a popular American writer best known for his whimsical and gently satirical fairy tales. His most famous story, “The Lady, or the Tiger?”, posed a famously unsolvable riddle and brought him wide acclaim. But many of his lesser-known tales, like tonight’s, are just as imaginative and charming. Stockton often gave mythological or magical elements a lighthearted twist, grounding them in everyday human kindness or folly. In classical mythology, a dryad is a tree spirit or nymph—typically female—who is bound to a particular tree, often an oak. The Greeks believed dryads were shy and long-lived, emerging only when their tree was especially old or under threat. Over time, the dryad became a symbol of the forest itself—an embodiment of nature’s quiet, watchful presence. — read by 'N' — Sign up for Snoozecast+ to get expanded, ad-free access by going to snoozecast.com/plus! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:59.7	Tonight, for our monthly snooze cast plus deluxe episode,
2:04.4	we'll read the tale Old Pipes and the Dryad by Frank R. Stockton,
2:09.9	and published in 1894.
2:12.8	Stockton was a popular American writer,
2:15.7	best known for his whimsical and gently satirical fairy tales.
2:20.3	His most famous story, The Lady or the Tiger, posed a famously unsolvable riddle and brought
2:27.3	him wide acclaim. But many of his lesser-known tales, like tonight's, are just as imaginative and charming.
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