The Nightingale
Fairy Tales with Granny MacDuff
Little Ears Media
4.4 • 932 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The Emperor learns there is a bird on his palace grounds that has the most beautiful song in the world, yet he has not heard it! The Emperor has the nightingale brought to his court to sing for all, but can a bird with a song so free really be happy living as a pet?
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| 1:18.0 | Good evening, children. It's Granny Maduff, ready with a story. So make yourselves comfy, and I'll begin. |
| 1:35.4 | Thank you. Make yourselves comfy, and I'll begin. Once upon a time, in a country called China, there lived an emperor who ruled over the land. |
| 1:44.9 | The emperor's palace was one of the great wonders of the world. |
| 1:51.0 | It was made of the finest porcelain, |
| 1:53.8 | which was so delicate that you could only touch it with the greatest of care. |
| 2:00.6 | In the palace garden, only the rarest flowers bloomed, only touch it with the greatest of care. |
| 2:01.2 | In the palace garden, only the rarest flowers bloomed, and the most beautiful ones were tied |
| 2:07.3 | with little silver bells that tinkled in the breeze so that no one could pass by without |
| 2:13.1 | admiring their beauty. |
| 2:16.0 | All things were arranged perfectly in the Emperor's Garden. And it was so vast |
| 2:22.9 | that even the gardener did not know how far and wide it extended. If you kept walking, |
| 2:30.8 | 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. |
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