Stone Soup page three

A big housholder came to the door and asked gruffly: "Well! What do you want?"

"Friend, I am a stranger in your neighborhood and I wanted to tell you that I found, almost at your doorstep, a wonderful stone for making Stone Soup.

I thought you might want to know about your good fortune in having such stones readily available to you-- practically an endless supply of good Stone Soup!"

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