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Fairy Tales with Granny MacDuff

The Old Miser

Fairy Tales with Granny MacDuff

Little Ears Media

Stories For Kids, Kids & Family

4.4788 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

An old miser has a beautiful garden where he hides his gold. One day, a thief sees the old fellow counting his treasure and burying it in the dirt. What will he do?!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Did you know Granny McDuff now has a Patreon?

0:04.2

You can get all episodes ad-free, games, puzzles, calendars, and more.

0:09.8

You can even get discounts off Granny merch.

0:12.8

Sign up now on Patreon.

0:14.6

Go to Granny Macduff-E-N-T-com for more information.

0:26.9

Good evening, children.

0:29.8

It's Granny Maduff, ready with a story.

0:33.4

So make yourselves comfy, and I'll begin. Thank you. Once upon a time, there lived an old miser.

0:49.8

He had a house just outside of town.

0:53.7

He did not keep much company, really any at all for that matter.

0:59.5

His house was small and quite bare, but that was the way he liked it.

1:06.8

It was surrounded by a wall, not too high, but high enough to keep the riffraff out.

1:15.5

In the yard, he kept a garden.

1:19.7

And in the garden, there was a secret place.

1:25.4

It was in this place that the miser kept his gold.

1:30.3

Every day he would go to the spot, dig up his treasure and count it,

1:40.3

piece by piece by piece, to make sure it was all there.

1:49.8

He made so many trips and spent so much time at this particular spot in the garden

1:55.2

that a thief, who had been watching him, guessed that it was gold, the miser counted.

2:04.8

One night, the thief snuck over the wall and went to the secret spot.

2:12.7

He dug out the gold and took it.

2:17.5

Off he went quietly in the night, and no one was the wiser.

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