The farmer’s wife smiled at the Babies and began to read slowly. She skipped the hard words and stumbled over the easy ones!
If you do not like to listen to her read, you will have to read for yourself the story of Goldy and Brownie, or The Fortune Teller. Here is the story:
Once upon a time there were two sisters. They were as different as they could be.
Goldy was good and beautiful. Brownie was ugly and cross.
One day Goldy said, “I am going down into the valley to see the Fortune Teller. I am going to have my fortune told.”
Brownie said, “You shall not go. I am afraid you will have a better fortune than mine if you go first.”
Then Brownie tied Goldy into a chair and she went out of the house and locked the door.
Brownie said, “I will have my fortune told first.”
She went into the valley where an old Gypsy lived. She knocked at the door and the Gypsy called out,