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Speaker 1: Hello friends, and welcome to sleep Tight Stories. This story

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Speaker 1: is a story about a boy who thought he had

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Speaker 1: everything he needed. He had money, food, and a magic

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Speaker 1: wishing cap. But he was lonely. He wished for a

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Speaker 1: friend and companion, and so wished himself off to find

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Speaker 1: the most beautiful and kindest princess he could. But when

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Speaker 1: he got there, she wanted nothing to do with him.

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Speaker 1: What is he going to do now? The magic apples.

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Speaker 1: Once upon a time there was a boy who was

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Speaker 1: better off than others. He was never short of money,

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Speaker 1: for he had a purse which was never empty. He

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Speaker 1: was never short of food, for he had a tablecloth

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Speaker 1: on which, as soon as he spread it, he found

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Speaker 1: all that he wanted to eat and drink. And besides,

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Speaker 1: he had a magic wishing cap. When he put it on,

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Speaker 1: he could wish himself wherever he wanted, and there he

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Speaker 1: would be that very moment. There was only one thing

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Speaker 1: he didn't have. He had no companion, and he was

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Speaker 1: gradually coming into the years when it would be necessary

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Speaker 1: for him to find one. As he was walking sadly

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Speaker 1: along one fine day, it occurred to him that he

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Speaker 1: could wish himself where he would find the most beautiful,

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Speaker 1: caring princess in the world. No sooner had he thought

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Speaker 1: of it, than there he was. It was a land

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Speaker 1: which he had never yet seen, and a city in

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Speaker 1: which he had never been yet. And the king had

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Speaker 1: a daughter so accomplished that he had never yet met

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Speaker 1: anyone like her, and he wanted to be her friend

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Speaker 1: on the spot, but she would have nothing to do

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Speaker 1: with him. Finally, he was so sad and so beside

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Speaker 1: himself that he could no longer be where she was not,

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Speaker 1: so he took his magic cap and wished himself into

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Speaker 1: the castle. He wanted to say goodbye, so he said,

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Speaker 1: and she laid her hand in his. I wish we

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Speaker 1: were far beyond the end of the world, he said,

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Speaker 1: And there they were, But the king's daughter cried and

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Speaker 1: begged to be allowed to go home again. He could

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Speaker 1: have all the gold and silver in the castle in return.

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Speaker 1: I have enough money for myself, he said, and he

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Speaker 1: shook his purse so that money just rolled about. He

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Speaker 1: could sit down at the royal table and eat the

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Speaker 1: finest food. She said, I have enough to eat and

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Speaker 1: drink myself. He said, see, you can sit down at

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Speaker 1: the table, he said, And at once he spread his tablecloth,

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Speaker 1: and there stood a table covered with the best one

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Speaker 1: might wish, and the king himself ate no better. After

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Speaker 1: they had eaten, the king's daughter said, oh, look at

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Speaker 1: the beautiful apples up there on the tree. If you

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Speaker 1: were really kind, you would fetch me a couple of them.

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Speaker 1: The boy was not lazy, and so he climbed up,

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Speaker 1: But he had forgotten his tablecloth and his purse, and

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Speaker 1: she took these. While he was shaking down the apples,

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Speaker 1: his cap fell off. She at once put it on

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Speaker 1: and wished herself back in her own room. And there

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Speaker 1: she was that minute you might have known, said the

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Speaker 1: boy to himself, and hurried down from the tree. He

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Speaker 1: began to cry and did not know what to do.

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Speaker 1: And as he was sitting there, he sampled the apples

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Speaker 1: which he had thrown down. No sooner had he tried

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Speaker 1: one than he had a strange feeling in his head,

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Speaker 1: And when he looked more closely, he had a pair

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Speaker 1: of horns. Well, now it can do me no more harm,

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Speaker 1: he said, and calmly went on eating the apples. But

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Speaker 1: suddenly the horns had disappeared, and he was as before

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Speaker 1: good enough, he said, And with that he put the

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Speaker 1: apples in his pocket and set out to search for

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Speaker 1: the king's daughter. He went from city to city, and

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Speaker 1: sailed from country to country. But it was a long journey,

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Speaker 1: and lasted a year and a day and even longer.

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Speaker 1: But one day he got there after all, and he

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Speaker 1: found out that the king's daughter was at the library.

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Speaker 1: Then he sat himself down with his apples before the

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Speaker 1: library door and pretended to be a peddler. Apples from abroad,

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Speaker 1: Apples from abroad, he cried. And sure enough the king's

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Speaker 1: daughter came and told her maidens to go and see

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Speaker 1: what desirable things the peddler from abroad might have to offer. Yes,

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Speaker 1: he had apples from abroad. What do the apples give, one,

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Speaker 1: asked the maiden. Wisdom and beauty, said the peddler, and

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Speaker 1: the maiden bought them. When the king's daughter had eaten

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Speaker 1: from the apples, she had a pair of horns. And

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Speaker 1: there was such a wailing in the castle that it

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Speaker 1: was sad to hear, and the castle was saddened, and

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Speaker 1: in the whole kingdom an announcement was made that whoever

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Speaker 1: could help the king's daughter should be able to ask

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Speaker 1: her for her friendship and receive half the kingdom. Besides,

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Speaker 1: then Tom Dick and Harry, and the best doctors in

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Speaker 1: the country came along, but none of them could help

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Speaker 1: the princess. But one day a foreign doctor from away

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Speaker 1: came to court. He was not from their country, he said,

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Speaker 1: and had made the journey to try his luck here.

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Speaker 1: But he must see the king's daughter alone, he said,

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Speaker 1: and so permission was granted to him. The king's daughter

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Speaker 1: recognized him and grew red and pale in turn. If

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Speaker 1: I help you now, will you be friends with me,

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Speaker 1: asked the boy. Yes, indeed she would. Then he gave

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Speaker 1: her one of the magic apples, and her horns were

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Speaker 1: only half as large as before. But I cannot do

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Speaker 1: anymore until I have my cap, my tablecloth, and my

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Speaker 1: purse back again, he said. So she went and brought

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Speaker 1: him the things. Then he gave her still another magic apple,

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Speaker 1: and now the horns were no more than tiny horns.

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Speaker 1: But now I cannot go on until you promise that

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Speaker 1: you will be a true friend to me, he said,

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Speaker 1: and she promised that she would. And after she had

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Speaker 1: eaten the third apple, her forehead was quite smooth again,

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Speaker 1: and she was even more beautiful than before. Then there

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Speaker 1: was great joy in the castle. The two became great friends,

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Speaker 1: and after some time they decided to marry. The castle

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Speaker 1: prepared for the wedding with baking, and invited people from

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Speaker 1: east and west to come to it. And they ate

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Speaker 1: and celebrated and were mary and of good cheer. And

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Speaker 1: that's the end of our story. Good Night,