Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Christmas Reading - Day 4

Tonight's story, once again, came from The Golden Christmas Book. It is a story called "The Cuckoo in the Clock" (author unknown).
It's a cute story about a cuckoo bird that complains all the time about not being able to see what happens all around him. The only time he gets to see "the world" is when his little door opens every hour and he has to go out and "cuckoo" the right number of times for the hour. "...there was only one thing that annoyed the cuckoo almost to death--and that was the rule that each time he cuckooed he must also bow." The animals (both real and make-believe) get together and decide that for Christmas they are going to hold the door open for the cuckoo as long as they can so he can see as much as he can. He ends up cuckooing and bowing 54 times!

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