A gentle retelling for listeners ages 3–5 of the Brothers Grimm tale in which an old donkey, hound, cat, and rooster, no longer wanted at home, set off to be town musicians in Bremen, frighten a band of robbers out of their forest house with their music, and stay there for good.
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Year after year, a donkey hauled heavy grain sacks for the mill. Now he was old, and his master wanted to be rid of him. So off he trotted toward Bremen. “There I can be a town musician!” he thought.
Soon he met an old hound, panting hard. “I am too old to hunt,” said the hound, “so my master wanted to be rid of me.” “Come to Bremen!” said the donkey. “I will play the lute, and you can beat the drum.”
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