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Reading A: Grimm: The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean

 A very poor old woman lived in a village, and she had very few things to eat and cook with. She gathered a pot of beans and cooked them over a fire, igniting the fire with some straw. When she was cooking them, one dropped and she didn't notice. Soon after, a burning coal leapt off the fire onto the straw and bean below. Then the straw began and said: 'Dear friends, from whence do you come here?' Each the coal and the bean explained how they had ended up all together below the fire. All three of the items "escaped death" in their own way, and now ended up on the ground below. 

They decided since they all escaped death together that they would stay together as friends. They all set out to a foreign country. Soon, they came to a brook with no bridge and no way to cross. They came up with a plan. The straw would lay across and act as a bridge, and the coal went across the straw bridge first. The coal got scared of the brook below in the middle of the journey across, and burned through the straw. Both the straw and coal fell into the water and died. The bean found the situation comical, and laughed so hard she burst. It would have been the end for the bean, but a tailor came by and sewed her back together. The tailor used black thread, which is the reason that all beans since then have a black seam.



Tailor saves the day.


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