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Has anyone ever told you they're in your corner? If someone is in your corner it means they're on your

side and they'll help you out when times get tough. In today's story one character is definitely in another character's corner,

especially when he gets backed into a corner.

I'm Rebecca Sheer and welcome to Circle Round where story time happens all the time.

Today our story is called The Whole Cart.

We found versions of this tale from the South Asian country of India.

Some really great people came together to bring you our adaptation of this folk tale

including Julia Chan and Rishi Kaysh Hirway. Singer-songwriter Rishi Kesh

hereway is host and creator of the music podcast Song Exploder and the Netflix series of the same name.

You kids may recognize Julia Chan from the animated feature Extinct.

You grown-ups may know her from TV shows like Saving Hope and Bo Jack Horseman.

So circle round everyone for the whole cart. There once was a traveling merchant who went from country to country, town to town, buying and selling goods.

The traveling merchant made a very good living and was a very wealthy man, but as rich as he was in money, he was just as poor, in honesty,

because the traveling merchant, you see, was a trickster, a rascally rogue with a devious scheme for making a profit.

Wherever he went, he would trick his way into buying goods at bargain basement prices. Then he would turn around and sell

those same goods at prices that were through the roof. One day the merchant arrived

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