The Rich and Poor Girls

A South American Folktale

De: Bill Gordh

Narrado por: Bill Gordh

Duración: 14 m

Resumen del Editor

Award-winning storyteller Bill Gordh (Film Advisory Board Award of Excellence winner, National Association of Parenting Periodicals Gold Award winner) presents this folk tale live with no script, accompanied only by his own dynamic banjo playing.

In a small village, a mother and her daughter were just getting by. They had very little. One day the girl announced that she was going to go and find some work. There was no work in the village and so she set out on her own. She began to cross a field and there were 2 bulls fighting. The fighting made the girl sad and she sang to the bulls to stop their fighting and they did! She moved on. She came to a raging river. She wondered how she would cross it and so she sang to the river to calm down and it did. She crossed the river and traveled until she came to an old house. It was big and she knocked on the door. An old woman answered and when the girl asked for work the old woman showed her in and asked if she would wash the dishes. The girl replied, "Of course!"

The old woman led her into the kitchen. Every surface was stacked high with dirty dishes, but the girl just smiled and went to work. When she finished, the old woman asked the girl to scratch her back. The girl began and felt something tear at her finger. She pulled her hand away and saw her fingers were bleeding. She looked at the old woman's back and saw that there ere pieces of glass in her skin. The girl kept on. The old woman told the girl she had done enough and she wanted to pay her. She told the girl to go down the hall and on the left there was a room filled with chests.

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