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Speaker 1: found in our show notes Thank you. In this episode,

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Speaker 1: I am going to share the famous fairy tale called

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Speaker 1: the Elves and the Shoemaker. There was once a shoemaker

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Speaker 1: who worked very hard and was very honest, But still

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Speaker 1: he could not earn enough to live upon. And at

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Speaker 1: last all he had in the world was gone, save

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Speaker 1: just leather enough to make one pair of shoes. Then

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Speaker 1: he cut his leather out, all ready to make up

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Speaker 1: the next day, meaning to rise early in the morning

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Speaker 1: to his work. His conscience was clear and his heart

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Speaker 1: light amidst all his troubles. So he went peaceably to bed,

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Speaker 1: left all his care, and soon fell asleep. In the morning,

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Speaker 1: after he had said his thanks, he sat himself down

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Speaker 1: to his work, when to his great wonder, there stood

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Speaker 1: the shoes already made upon the table. The good man

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Speaker 1: knew not what to say or think at such an

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Speaker 1: odd happening. He looked at the workmanship. There was not

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Speaker 1: one false stitch in the whole job. All was so

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Speaker 1: neat and true that it was quite a masterpiece. The

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Speaker 1: same day a customer came in, and the shoes suited

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Speaker 1: him so well that he willingly paid a price higher

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Speaker 1: than usual for them, and the poor shoemaker with the

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Speaker 1: money bought leather enough to make two pairs more. In

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Speaker 1: the evening, he cut out the work and went to

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Speaker 1: bed early that he might get up and begin early

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Speaker 1: the next day. But he was saved all the trouble,

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Speaker 1: for when he got up in the morning, the work

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Speaker 1: was done ready to his hand. Soon in came buyers,

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Speaker 1: who paid him handsomely for his goods, so that he

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Speaker 1: bought leather enough for four pair more. He cut out

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Speaker 1: the work again overnight and found it done in the

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Speaker 1: morning as before, And so it went on for some time.

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Speaker 1: What was got ready in the evening was always done

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Speaker 1: by daybreak, and the good man soon became thriving and

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Speaker 1: well off again. One evening, as he and his wife

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Speaker 1: were sitting over the fire chatting together, he said to her,

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Speaker 1: I should like to sit up and watch tonight that

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Speaker 1: we may see who it is that comes and does

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Speaker 1: my work for me. The wife liked the thought, so

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Speaker 1: they left a light burning and hid themselves in a

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Speaker 1: corner of the room behind a curtain that was hung

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Speaker 1: up there, and watched what would happen. As soon as

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Speaker 1: it was midnight, there came in two little elves, and

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Speaker 1: they sat themselves upon the shoemaker's bench, took up all

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Speaker 1: the work that was cut out, and began to ply

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Speaker 1: it with their little fingers, stitching and wrapping and tapping

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Speaker 1: away at such a rate that the shoemaker was all

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Speaker 1: a wonder and could not take his eyes off them.

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Speaker 1: And on they went till the job was quite done,

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Speaker 1: and the shoes stood ready for use upon the table.

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Speaker 1: This was long before daybreak, and then they bustled away

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Speaker 1: as quick as lightning. The next day, the wife said

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Speaker 1: to the shoemaker, these little elves have made us rich,

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Speaker 1: and we ought to be thankful to them and do

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Speaker 1: something good for them if we can. I am quite

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Speaker 1: sorry to see that they do not have decent clothes,

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Speaker 1: for they have nothing upon their backs to keep off

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Speaker 1: the cold. I'll tell you what, I will make each

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Speaker 1: of them a shirt and a coat. And waistcoat, and

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Speaker 1: a pair of pants into the bargain, and you will

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Speaker 1: make each of them a little pair of shoes. The

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Speaker 1: thought please the good cobbler very much. And one evening,

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Speaker 1: when all the things were ready, they laid them on

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Speaker 1: the table instead of the work that they used to

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Speaker 1: cut out, and then went and hid themselves to watch

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Speaker 1: with the little elves would do. About midnight. In they

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Speaker 1: came dancing and skipping hopping round the room, and then

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Speaker 1: went to sit down to their work as usual. But

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Speaker 1: when they saw the clothes lying there for them, they

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Speaker 1: laughed and chuckled, and seemed mightily delighted. Then they dressed

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Speaker 1: themselves in the twinkling of an eye, and danced and

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Speaker 1: skipped and sprang about as merry as could be, till

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Speaker 1: at last they danced out of the door and away

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Speaker 1: over the green. The good couple saw them no more,

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Speaker 1: But everything went well with them from that time forward,

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Speaker 1: as long as they lived good night, sleep.

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Speaker 2: Tight, and and and on and