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I am Ariel Goodbody, your host for this show.
Todays story is for beginners.
The name of the story is the piper of Hamelin.
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Okay, I'll just explain some words that are in today's story.
A piper P I P e r is someone who plays the pipe.
The pipe is a musical instrument.
Pipes are long, thin wind instruments a piper blows into their pipe to make music.
These days pipers arent very popular.
Guitarists and piano players are much more popular than pipers.
When we say something times something, t I m e s, it is the same as multiplying.
In mathematics we use a cross or an x to show multiplying or timesing something.
For example, two times two is four, three times two is six and ten times two is 20.
If someone is 50 times stronger than you, then they are very strong indeed.
The mayor mayor of a town or city is the person who makes big big decisions about it.
They are the leader, the president of the town or city.
When you dont want something anymore, you can get rid of it.
Getting rid of something is like throwing it in the bin.