Pete
Gritton was our able master of ceremonies, as we explored Riches and
Poverty with a reduced complement of actual storytellers. Mike Rogers
began with The Two Hunchbacks,
their different reactions to the Fairies, and the different rewards
they received. [This page gives a song about the first, and a tale
about the pair http://www.irishpage.com/songs/donalcam.htm,
while the song itself can be heard here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2VLq3Hed0U
.
Graham
Rogers continued, by transposing Little Master Misery from Arthur
Ransome's Old
Peter's Russian Tales
into the Lea Valley and Canning Town, prefacing it with a prehistoric
tale of ritual bog-drowning on what sounded awfully like Canvey
Island.
Madeleine
Grantham told us two tales of Nasruddin: The Trip to the Bath-House,
where a big tip for poor service on the first visit produces good
service on the second, for which the attendants receive the
no-tip-at-all they deserved for the way they behaved the first time.
In her second tale, Nasruddin pays for the sausage whose smell he has
enjoyed by letting its demanding seller hear the sound
of his money!
Pete's
contribution to the tales was an account of Sam Hookey, “the Wicked
Man of Wick”, which you can recapture here.
Graham
told a tale from the repertoire of Hugh Lupton and Taffy Thomas, The
King of the Fishes, the Devil, and the Magic Cow,
and Mike finished off with Little
Claus and Big Claus
from Hans Christian Andersen.
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