The Outdoorsman & The Princess
Fairy Tales with Granny MacDuff
Little Ears Media
4.4 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
A princess announces she will take a husband, but only a man who can arrange his words well. When word reaches a Baron and his two sons, they make preparations to go and try to win the Princess with their knowledge. Their brother, the Baron's third son, is not as studious as the others, but tags along to try his luck. Will any of the three brothers win the Princess's hand?
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| 1:18.0 | Good evening, children. It's Granny Madduff, ready with a story. So make yourselves comfy, and I'll begin. |
| 1:32.2 | Thank you. Make yourselves comfy and I'll begin. Once upon a time, there lived a baron who had two sons who made him very proud. |
| 1:40.9 | They were very studious young men who had studied everything from botany and biology to music, poetry and mathematics. |
| 1:51.0 | Nothing so important to the Baron than being learned. |
| 1:57.0 | Almost everything his sons knew had been taught to them by their professors or learnt by them from a book. |
| 2:03.6 | They had very high opinions of themselves and thought themselves the smartest in the land. |
| 2:10.6 | And so, when the king's daughter announced that she would choose for a husband a man who could arrange his words |
| 2:19.1 | best. The baron's sons being quite well spoken, decided to go and woo the princess. They were |
| 2:29.0 | given a week's stay at the palace. When it was time to make the journey, they thought they were well prepared. |
| 2:37.0 | One of them knew the entire Latin dictionary by heart. |
| 2:43.0 | Three years it took him to learn it, and now he could recite it backwards, forwards or sideways, and perfectly. The other brother knew everything about the |
| 2:54.8 | law. He had read everything there was to read on every law there was. If the Constitution's system |
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