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True Adventures of Little Red Hen

A fairy tale for adults who grew up with the wrong version! (Part 1 of 3)

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Edward Scott Pearlman
Feb 10, 2023
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This is the first 1/3 of the real “Little Red Hen” story. You see, Mother Goose got it all wrong, in her impatience to meet a deadline, but later scratchings by her daughter, Long Yellow Goose, gave us the real story. The moral of this version is quite different.

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