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Good evening, children.

It's Granny Maduff, ready with a story.

So make yourselves comfy, and I'll begin. Music Once upon a time,

In a country called China, there lived an emperor who ruled over the land.

The emperor's palace was one of the great wonders of the world. It was made of the

finest porcelain, which was so delicate that you could only touch it with the greatest of care.

In the palace garden, only the rarest flowers bloomed, and the most beautiful ones were tied

with little silver bells that tinkled in the breeze so that no one could pass by without

admiring their beauty. All things were arranged perfectly in the emperor's garden. And it was so vast that even the gardener

did not know how far and wide it extended. If you kept walking, after some time you would come to a fine

forest where the trees were tall and the lakes were so clear you could see right

down to the bottom. The forest ran all the way to the deep blue sea so that even the tallest

of ships could sail under its branches. And in one of these trees lived the nightingale.

His song was so stunning that even the fishermen, who was always quite busy,

could not help but stop and listen to the nightingale sing.

How beautiful is the song of the nightingale, the fisherman would say.

He could never stay long, for he had work to attend to,

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