Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Stone Soup page four


"Come right in and welcome, Stranger!" said the big householder.

And as the young soldier walked through the door and into the cozy farm cottage the householder more cheerfully continued:

"Stone Soup, you say--Stone Soup?

I have lived in this same house-- boy and man-- for years and have never heard that the stones around here were good for anything but breaking plow shares!

Tell me more about this Stone Soup right now, if you please!"


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