A gentle retelling for listeners ages 3–5 of the Brothers Grimm tale “The Golden Goose”: kind Dummling shares his poor cake with a little gray man, finds a goose with golden feathers, and leads a stuck-together line of seven people past a princess who has never laughed.
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Once upon a time, a man had three sons. Everyone teased the youngest, Dummling, and laughed at him.
One day the eldest son set off to chop wood in the forest. His mother packed a sweet cake and some grape juice for him.
A little gray-haired old man met him among the trees. “Please share your cake and juice,” he said. “I am so hungry and thirsty.” “Then I’d have less,” said the eldest son. “Be off!”
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