Fatten Me First

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We read Flora Annie Steele’s folk tale “The Lambikin,” where a little lamb bargains his way past hungry predators by promising to get fatter at his granny’s house. The plan works until his pride and repetition give him away, and the ending lands like a warning you can’t unhear. 
• a tiny lamb heading to granny’s house with big confidence 
• a repeated promise that delays danger from predator to predator 
• the corn bin feast and the shift from survival to greed 
• the Drummakin disguise and the taunting reply to every animal 
• the Jackal recognizing the voice and the trick collapsing 
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Transcript

Opening And A Sleepy Tease

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Hello. Are you tired? You will be. This is Ron Reeds. Today we're reading The Lambican by Flora Flora Annie Steele. Once upon a time there was a wee wee lambicin who froliced about on his little tottery legs and enjoyed himself amazingly. Now one day he set off to visit his granny and was jumping with joy to think of all the good things he should get from her. When whom should he meet but a jackal, who looked at the tender young morsel and said Lambicin, Lambican, I'll eat you But Lambakin only gave a little frisk, and said To Granny's house I go, where I shall fatter grow. Then you can eat me so The Jackal thought this reasonable and let the Lambicin pass.

SPEAKER_02 1:07

By and by he met a vulture, and the vulture, looking hungrily at the tender morsel before him, said Lambicin, Lambrican, I'll eat you But Lambican only gave a little frisk and said To Granny's house I go, where I shall fatter grow, then you can eat me so The vulture thought this reasonable and let the let Lambakin pass, and by and by he met a tiger, and when a wolf and then a wolf and a dog and an eagle and all these then they saw the tender little morsel When they saw the tender little morsel, said Lambican, Lambican I'll eat you But to all of them Lambican replied with a little frisk To Granny's house I go, where I shall fatter grow, then you can eat me so at last he reached his granny's house and said all in a great hurry Granny dear, I promise to get very fat, so as people ought to keep their promises, please put me into the corn bin at once.

SPEAKER_01 2:32

So his granny said he was a good boy and put him into the corn bin, and there the greedy little Lambicin stayed for seven days and ate and ate and ate until he could scarcely waddle, and his granny said he was fat enough for anything and must go home. But cunning little Lambakin said that would never do, for some animal would be sure to eat him on the way back. He was so plump and tender.

SPEAKER_02 3:03

I'll tell you what you must do, said Masker Lambicin. You must make a little drummakin out of the skin of my little brother who died, and then I can sit inside and trundle along nicely, for I'm as tight as a drum myself.

The Drum Disguise And The Chase

SPEAKER_01 3:21

So his granny made a nice little drummakin out of his brother's skin with the wool inside, and Lambican curled himself up snug and warm in the middle, and trundled away gayly.

SPEAKER_02 3:35

Soon he met with the eagle who called out Drummogin, drummakin, have you seen Lambican?

SPEAKER_01 3:44

And mister Lambicin curled up in his soft warm nest, replied Lost in the forest, and so are you, oh little drummakin tumpa tum to How very annoying sighed the eagle, thinking regretfully of the tender morsel he had let slip. Meanwhile, Lambakin trumbled along, laughing to himself and singing Tumpa Tum To Tumpa Tum Too Every animal and bird he met asked him the same question. Drummakan, drummakin, have you seen Lambakin? And to each of them the little sliboots replied Lost in the forest and so are you.

SPEAKER_02 4:30

Oh little drummigan tumpa tum tu Then they all sighed to think of the tender little morsel they had let slip.

The Jackal’s Reveal And Ending

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SPEAKER_01 4:45

At last the jackal came limping along for all his sorry looks as sharp as a needle, and he too called out Drummakin, Drummakin, have you seen Lambakin? And Lambakin, curled up in his snug little nest, replied gayly, Lost in the forest, and so are you on little drummakin tumpa but he never got any farther, for the jackal recognized his voice at once and cried, Hello, you've turned yourself inside out, have you? You just come out of that Whereupon he tore upon drummakin and gobbled up lambicin. This has been The Lambican by Flora Annie Steele. Please like and subscribe. Give us a good review and a high rating. Share with your friends.

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Goodbye.