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Ever played the game, telephone?

You sit in a big circle, and if you're the one starting, you whisper a word or phrase

into the ear of the person next to you.

Then they whisper what they think they heard into the next person's ear, and so on.

By the time your message gets all the way around the circle, chances are it's pretty mixed

up and sounds nothing like what you originally said.

And that is exactly what can happen when people gossip, when they meddle in other people's

business and share other people's secrets.

In today's story, we'll meet a big gossip who learns a very tricky lesson about spilling

other people's beans.

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

Today our story is called When Fish Fly.

Versions of this folktale come from a number of places, including the Ukraine and Russia,

Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands and India.

Some really great people came together to bring you our tale, including John Culinary

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