The Fisherman and His Wife 🎣 ✨ (Encore)

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🗓️ 4 September 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The Fisherman and His Wife is a story about never being happy with what you have. The wife in the story is not happy with what she has, and when her husband catches an enchanted prince and lets him go, she makes him go back and ask for something in return. The fisherman goes back and asks the fish for one thing after another as his wife always thinks of something better she wants until the last time he asks and gets a surprise when he returns home. Sleep Tight!, Sheryl & Clark ❤️👂📖 --- 💡 Send us your story ideas 💡 --- 🛸🛸🛸🛸🛸 SUPPORT US 👉 Join Premium for AD FREE listening and extra bedtime stories! 👉 Sleep Tight Premium is now available in Apple Podcasts! 🎉 👉 If you are enjoying the podcast and would like to show your support, visit our support page at: https://sleeptightstories.org/support/ ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Leave a review wherever you listen to podcasts, or share our podcast with your friends. --- ❤️ Find us on YouTube: @SleepTightStories 📷 Instagram: @sleeptightstories 📱Facebook: @sleeptightstoriespodcast --- ABOUT Sleep Tight Stories When your kids Sleep Tight, you will too. Sleep Tight Stories brings joy and comfort to millions of families worldwide with new calming bedtime stories every single week. Each episode is relevant to children’s lived experiences, and sparks wonder (without overstimulation) so listeners can easily drift off to sleep. As one young fan eloquently states, “The stories are very entertaining, but they also are not entertaining enough to make it hard for me to sleep.” Make bedtime the sweetest part of everyone’s day with Sleep Tight Stories --- Dedicated to enhancing the health and happiness of children, Sleep Tight Media helps families replace bedtime struggles with bedtime snuggles. --- Bedtime a nightmare? Turn it into a dream. With Sleep Tight Stories.

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0:00.0	Hello, friends, and welcome to Sleep Tight Stories.
0:12.1	Thank you. This story is about a fisherman and his wife.
0:28.6	They live in a small, untidy house by the sea, and the wife is not very happy.
0:40.7	One day the fisherman catches a fish that says he is an enchanted prince, so the fisherman
0:48.5	lets him go and returns home.
0:53.2	The wife is angry that the man never asked the fish for anything in return, so she sends
1:00.7	him back to ask for the things she wants.
1:09.8	The fisherman and his wife.
1:16.7	There was once a fisherman who lived with his wife in a pigsty, close by the seaside.
1:27.2	The fisherman used to go out all day long of fishing,
1:32.3	and one day, as he sat on the shore with his rod,
1:37.3	looking at the sparkling waves and watching his line,
1:42.3	all of a sudden his float was dragged away deep into the water.
1:48.7	And in drawing it up, he pulled out a great fish.
1:56.6	But the fish said, please let me live. I am not a real fish. I am an enchanted prince.
2:06.2	Put me in the water again and let me go.
2:11.7	Oh, oh, said the man, you need not make so many words about the matter.
2:18.3	I will have nothing to do with a fish that can talk.
2:22.0	So swim away, sir, as soon as you please.
2:28.9	Then he put him back into the water,
2:32.0	and the fish darted straight down to the bottom, leaving a long
2:37.0	white streak behind him on the wave.
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