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Tonight, listen to over three hours of fairy tales,

including listener favorites, Thumbolina,

The White Cat, and Cinderella.

So lie down, close your eyes, and let me read you a story.

Thumbulina, a story from Anderson's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Anderson.

There was once a woman who wished very much to have a child.

She went to a fairy and said, I should so very much like to have a child can you tell me where i can find one well that can be easily managed said the fairy hair is a barley-corn it is not exactly of the same sort as those which grow in the farmer's fields and which the chickens eat.

Put it in a flour pot and see what will happen.

Thank you, said the woman, and she gave the fairy 12 shillings, which was the price of the barley corn.

Then she went home and planted it, and immediately there grew up a

large, handsome flower, somewhat like a tulip in appearance, but with its leaves tightly closed,

as if it were still a bud. It is a beautiful flower, said the woman, and she kissed the red and golden-colored petals.

And as she did so, the flower opened, and she could see that it was a real tulip.

But within the flower, upon the green velvet stamens, sat a very delicate and graceful

little maiden. She was scarcely half as long as a thumb, and they gave her the name of

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