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Tonight's story is a tale by Andrew Lang called The Silent Princess, and I hope you

enjoy it.

As a soulmate friend, the day is over, you did your best.

Night has come, it's time to rest.

Once upon a time, there lived in Turkey, Apasha, who had only one son, and so dearly did

he love this boy, that he let him spend the whole day amusing himself, instead of learning

how to be useful, like his friends.

Now the boy's favorite toy was a golden ball, and with this, he would play from morning

till night without troubling anybody.

One day, as he was sitting in the summer house in the garden, making his ball run along

the walls and catching it again.

He noticed an old woman, with an earthen picture coming to draw water from a well which stood

in a corner of the garden.

In a moment, he had caught his ball and flung it straight at the picture, which fell to

the ground in a thousand pieces.

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