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All right, let’s hear it! Round Bun sings a song. Sing some more, please, don’t stop! Hop onto my tongue, so I can hear you better. Little Round Bun jumped onto the Fox’s tongue and began to sing: «I was scraped from the flour-box And swept from the bin— » But before it could go on, the Fox opened her mouth and — snap! — she gobbled it up. «Magic Fish-Bone» («Волшебная рыбья кость») Действующие лица: The King The Queen 19 princess, one of them cess Alicia, the oldest is If/ Fairy Grandmarina Fishmonger There was once a King and he had a Queen. They had nineteen children. Alicia, the oldest, took care of them all. One day the King was on his way to work and he stopped at the fishmonger’s to buy a pound and a half of fish. Good morning, sir. A pound and a half of fish, certainly. Do you want anything else? No, thanks. I don’t want anything. King was not very happy because his children did not wear any new clothes. Then an old lady came up. (in very expensive clothes). King Watkins the First? Watkins is my name. Father of the beautiful Alicia? And of eighteen other children. You are going to your work. I am the good fairy Grandmarina. When you go home to dinner tonight invite Princess Alicia to have some of the fish you have just bought. When the beautiful Princess Alicia eats the fish you will find 86
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