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Speaker 1: and subscribe. Thank you. Today's story is a folk tale

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Speaker 1: with the Tricky and Nancy in it. He has caught

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Speaker 1: some fish and doesn't want to share with lion. A

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Speaker 1: Nancy tells lion it is treasure in his sack and

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Speaker 1: goes off and tries to eat by himself. Will lion

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Speaker 1: believe him? Lion has been tricked by a Nancy before,

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Speaker 1: a Nancy and the lion. Once upon a time, a

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Speaker 1: Nancy planned a scheme. He went to town and bought

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Speaker 1: ever so many containers of fat, and ever so many bags,

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Speaker 1: and ever so many balls of string, and a great

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Speaker 1: big frying pan. Then he went to the bay and

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Speaker 1: blew a shell and call to the head fish in

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Speaker 1: the sea, green eel to him. Then he said to

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Speaker 1: wants to give them new life. So green Eel said

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Speaker 1: he would and went to call them. Meanwhile, a Nancy

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Speaker 1: lit a fire and took out some of the fat

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Speaker 1: and got his frying pan ready, and as fast as

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Speaker 1: the fish came out of the water, he caught them

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Speaker 1: and put them into the frying pan. And so he

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Speaker 1: did with all of them until he got to the

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Speaker 1: head fish, who was so slippery that he couldn't hold him,

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Speaker 1: and the headfish got back again into the water. When

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Speaker 1: A Nancy had fried all the fish, he put them

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Speaker 1: into the sacks, and then took the sacks on his

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Speaker 1: back and set off to the mountains. He had not

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Speaker 1: gone very far when he met lion, and Lion said

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Speaker 1: to him, well, brother, and Nancy, where have you been.

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Speaker 1: I have not seen you for a long time? And

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Speaker 1: Nancy said, I have been traveling about. Oh, but what

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Speaker 1: have you got there? Said the lion, Oh, I have

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Speaker 1: got some of my old treasures. I am taking them

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Speaker 1: to the mountain to find a safe place to bury

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Speaker 1: them for my children's children to find some day. I

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Speaker 1: think they will enjoy seeing the things that were important

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Speaker 1: to me. Then they parted, after he had gone a

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Speaker 1: little way. The lion said, I know that a Nancy

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Speaker 1: is a great trickster. I dare say he has got

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Speaker 1: something there that he doesn't want me to see, and

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Speaker 1: I will just follow him, but he took care not

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Speaker 1: to let a Nancy see him. Now, when a Nancy

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Speaker 1: got into the woods, he set his sacks down and

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Speaker 1: for there is someone near. So he tied the sack

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Speaker 1: up and went on farther into the mountains, where he

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Speaker 1: set his sacks down and took out two fish, which

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Speaker 1: he ate, and no fly came. He said, there is

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Speaker 1: no one near, so he took out more fish. But

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Speaker 1: when he had eaten about half a dozen, the lion

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Speaker 1: came up and said, well, brother, a Nancy, a pretty

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Speaker 1: tale you have told me. Oh, brother lion, I am

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Speaker 1: so glad you have come. Never mind what tale I

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Speaker 1: have told you, but come and sit down. It was

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Speaker 1: only for my fun. So lion sat down and began

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Speaker 1: to eat. But before a Nancy had eaten two fish,

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Speaker 1: lion had emptied one of the Then said a Nancy

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Speaker 1: to himself, you are a greedy fellow eating up all

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Speaker 1: my fish. What did you say, sir, said lion. I

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Speaker 1: only said you do not eat half fast enough. For

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Speaker 1: a Nancy was afraid the lion would eat him up.

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Speaker 1: Then they went on eating. But A Nancy wanted to

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Speaker 1: and so he said to the lion, which of us

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Speaker 1: do you think is the stronger. The lion said, why

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Speaker 1: I am of course. Then A Nancy said, we will

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Speaker 1: tie one another to the tree and we shall see

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Speaker 1: which is stronger. Now they agreed that the lion should

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Speaker 1: tie a Nancy first, and he tied him with some

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Speaker 1: very fine string and did not tie him tight. And

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Speaker 1: Nancy twisted himself about two or three times and the

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Speaker 1: string broke. Then it was a Nancy's turn to tie

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Speaker 1: the lion, and he took some very strong cord. The

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Speaker 1: lion said, you must not tie me tight, for I

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Speaker 1: but he could not get loose. Then A Nancy thought,

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Speaker 1: for he was afraid to untie him because he thought

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Speaker 1: doing there? He said? It is all that fellow a

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Speaker 1: Nancy who has tied me to the tree. But will

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Speaker 1: you untie me? But she said no, for I am

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Speaker 1: afraid of what you might do if I untie you.

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Speaker 1: But he gave her his word he would not harm her.

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Speaker 1: Still she could not trust him, but he begged her

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Speaker 1: again and again, and said, well, if I do try

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Speaker 1: out shame upon me. So at last she agreed, but

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Speaker 1: she had no sooner loosened him than he came up

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Speaker 1: to her to try and catch her, for he had

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Speaker 1: been so many days without food that he was quite hungry.

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Speaker 1: But the trees immediately cried out shame, and so he

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Speaker 1: could not catch her. Then she went away as fast

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Speaker 1: When lion got home, he told his wife and children

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Speaker 1: all that had happened. To him and how Miss Nancy

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Speaker 1: had saved his life. So they said they would have

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Speaker 1: a great dinner and ask Miss Nancy. Now, when a

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Speaker 1: Nancy heard of it, he wanted to go to the

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Speaker 1: dinner also, so he went to Miss Nancy and said

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Speaker 1: she said no. Then he said, I can turn myself

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Speaker 1: and at last she said yes. And he told her

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Speaker 1: when she was asked what food her baby ate, she

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Speaker 1: must be sure to tell them it did not eat

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Speaker 1: baby food, but the same food as everyone else. And

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Speaker 1: so off they went and had a very good dinner,

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Speaker 1: and then set off home again. But somehow one of

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Speaker 1: the lion's sons figured out that everything was not quite right,

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Speaker 1: was a Nancy, and the lion set out after him.

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Speaker 1: Now as they were going along before the lion got

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Speaker 1: lion ran after him. When he found the lion was

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Speaker 1: overtaking him, he turned himself into an old man with

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Speaker 1: lion got up to him, he said, good morning, mister lion.

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Speaker 1: And the lion said, good morning, old gentleman. And the

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Speaker 1: old man said, who are you after now? And the

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Speaker 1: lion asked if he had seen a Nancy pass that way,

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Speaker 1: But the old man said, no, that fellow and Nancy

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Speaker 1: is always meddling with someone. What mischief has he been

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Speaker 1: up to? Now? Then, the lion told him, But the

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Speaker 1: old man said it was no use to follow him anymore,

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Speaker 1: for he would never catch him. And so the lion

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Speaker 1: home again. And a Nancy got home safe and sound.

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Speaker 1: Good night, sleep tight