1. ESL CLASS MRS. COVERDALE

2. Once upon a time there was a farmer named Maibon. He was getting old so he was not happy, he wanted to be young forever.

3. One day he was coming back to his farm and he found a redheaded dwarf who was struggling with his leg stuck under a log

4. Doli, the dwarf, was not a nice person and demanded Maibon to help him, but Maibon remembered that dwarfs have magical powers and he wanted to ask for a wish.

5. Maibon helped the dwarf to escape and the dwarf rewarded him with a wish. Maibon's wish was for a magic stone which can keep him young forever

6. When he got home, Maibon's wife is angry at Maibon's wish and thinks that he could have wished for something much better. Hearing this, Maibon throws the stone into the fire because he thinks that the dwarf has cheated him and the stone probably doesn’t even work.

7. But next morning Maibon realizes that his beard hasn't grown, and he knows that the magic stone is working as the dwarf promised. The problem is that nothing else around him is changing either..

8. The eggs were not hatching, the crops were not growing, the apple trees were not producing fruit, the cow couldn’t have her calf, the baby was crying because of his teething.

9. Maibon's wife was not happy at all and persuaded him to get rid of the stone but whatever Maibon does, the stone keeps coming back

10. Maibon now realizes that the stone has not brought him happiness only boredom and pain. He tries to destroy the stone, which doesn't work. As he is trying to bury it, he sees the dwarf again.

11. The dwarf tells Maibon that he can only get rid of the stone if he really, really wants to. Maibon says he does, throws the stone down on the ground and runs away

12. When he gets home he sees that everything has started to grow again. He finally got rid of the stone. He too grows old but is now happy to grow old with his family.