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If you could have an endless supply of something, something you really love, what would it be?

Perhaps it would be your favorite food or something you collect, like stickers, rocks, or seashells.

Now at first it might be really fun to have this endless supply, right?

But more often than not, when we have too much of a good thing, it might not seem so good anymore.

And we're about to meet a farmer who learns that trying to have too much of a good thing can spoil everything.

I'm Rebecca Scher and welcome to Circle Around.

Where storytime happens all the time. Today our story is called The Bearded Lake.

Versions of this tale come from the country of Wales in the United Kingdom.

Some really great people came together to bring you our telling of this tale, including Tony Award winner Owen Teal.

Grown-ups, you may know Owen as Sir Alessir Thorn on Game of Thrones.

His newest film Dream Horse will be released in the United States on May 21st.

So Circle Around Everyone.

Where The Bearded Lake.

In the northwestern part of Wales, up in the high country where the rugged wind swept mountains give way to sloping, rolling hills and green grassy knolls, their lies, a lake.

It's known as The Bearded Lake because of the thick reeds and rushes that fringe shores like a bushy brown beard.

In the summer, The Bearded Lake is covered in water lilies. All of them is bright and white as a pearl.

But once upon a time, nothing covered the surface of The Bearded Lake.

The brown reeds and rushes sprouted around a body of water that was as smooth and clear as a mirror.

Until one man changed everything.

According to legend, he was a farmer.

A cattle farmer whose land stretched all the way to the edge of The Bearded Lake will call him farmer Davies.

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