A gentle retelling for listeners ages 3–5 of Aesop’s fable from The Aesop for Children (1919): a Boy grabs such a big fistful of filberts from a pitcher that his hand gets stuck, until his mother tells him to be satisfied with half.
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On the kitchen table stood a tall pitcher full of filberts. Filberts are small, round, brown nuts, good to eat. A Boy looked up at them.
The pitcher had a narrow neck, just wide enough for a small hand to slip inside. The Boy was told, “You may put your hand in and take some filberts.”
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