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Mr Sharpe's Fish - NICHOLAS HORSBURGH

Summary:  Mr Sharpe loved eating fish and often bought the finest ones from the market. One day, he brought home a beautiful fish and asked his wife, Sheena, to cook it for his dinner the next day. Sheena prepared the fish, and the delicious smell attracted her friends, who came to visit. Wanting to be polite, Sheena invited them to lunch, and together they ate all the fish. When Mr Sharpe returned home expecting his favourite meal, Sheena served him noodles and vegetables instead, claiming that the “naughty cat” had eaten the fish. This happened again the following week—and again the week after—whenever Sheena’s friends visited and happily finished the fish. Finally, after losing a third two-kilo fish, Mr Sharpe refused to believe Sheena’s excuse. He caught the cat and weighed it on a shop scale. The cat weighed exactly two kilos—the same as the missing fish. Mr Sharpe then asked his wife a clever question: If the cat weighs the same as the fish, and she claims the fish is the cat...

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Summary: Many years ago, there was a village in a valley near a castle where a sorcerer lived. One autumn, the villagers discovered that all their crops had mysteriously disappeared. The same thing happened the following year, leaving the villagers hungry and desperate. A brave boy named James decided to find out who was stealing their crops. He climbed the mountain and met the sorcerer, who agreed to keep him as an apprentice. Inside the castle, James saw rooms full of fruits and vegetables taken from his village. A talking raven, who was a prisoner of the sorcerer, told James to learn the sorcerer's secrets to save his people. James worked hard but was trapped in the castle by magic. One day, he overheard the sorcerer using a magic spell to make a broom move by itself. When the sorcerer was away, James tried the spell, but the broom flooded the hall because he didn't know how to stop it. The sorcerer returned angrily, but James learned the stopping spell just in time. When J...