Italian Tale
Vardiello and the Hen
9
min
5
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4.68
Vardiello isn’t a very clever son, but he thinks he is. When his mother leaves him alone in the house he gets into deeper and deeper trouble. Find out how a hen led to him hiding in the oven!
The King’s Tower
Dominican Tale
6
min
5
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4.67
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12
ratings
The desire for fame can easily keep us from using our common sense.
The wasteful king decides that he wants to touch the moon. He calls the royal carpenter and orders him to build a tower so high that when he climbs all the way to the top, he will be able to touch the moon. However, his obsession eventually proves fatal.
The wasteful king decides that he wants to touch the moon. He calls the royal carpenter and orders him to build a tower so high that when he climbs all the way to the top, he will be able to touch the moon. However, his obsession eventually proves fatal.
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A long time ago, in a faraway land, there lived and ruled a king. One day, the king took it into his head that if he could only touch the moon he would become famous and admired all over the world.
He was so consumed by the idea he couldn’t think about anything else and forgot to rule his kingdom altogether. All he did every day was rack his brain to try to figure out how he could get high enough in the sky to touch the moon. When he slept, all he ever dreamed about was reaching up
The king spent many long days and nights thinking about nothing else but the chalky moon, and one day he finally came up with
He immediately sent for the royal carpenter and ordered him to build
He spent the next few days pacing back and forth, thinking, measuring, calculating, and drawing, but he ripped up
After a week had passed, the impatient king could no longer bear to watch the carpenter calculating and measuring silly drawings instead of just building his tall tower, and so he decided to pay him a visit. He was very angry and frustrated, and he threatened:
“You have three days to build me…
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