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Today I've got a fairy story to tell you about a girl who gets to marry a king,
but has to complete an impossible task before she can.
But things don't go as well as they should.
A long time ago there was a poor man who had a daughter.
She was beautiful and full of life.
One day her father has to go and see the king.
He's very embarrassed about seeing him because his life is a far cry from the king's.
So to try and impress him, he tells him that he has a daughter who can spin straw into gold.
Well, I'd be impressed by that.
The king wants proof and demands to see her.
She's taken to the palace where she has shown a room full of straw and a spinning wheel.
and is told to spin the straw into gold by the morning, and if not, she will die.
And then he leaves.
This comes as a shock to the poor girl, and she starts to cry.
Suddenly a little man with wrinkly skin enters the room.