Thursday, January 17, 2013

AN OLD FOLK TALE REVISITED

Elder Christofferson entertained everyone with his storytelling skill

With all due respect to French author Charles Perrault who first penned the folk tale Cinderella in 1697, this story has been retold many times and in many different ways through the passing centuries. One of the latest playful tongue-twisting versions was recently presented during a missionary talent show to the assembled elders and sisters serving in the Maryland Baltimore Mission. The talented story-teller was Elder Jess Christofferson who completed his two year mission and went home in December shortly after his skillful oration to an appreciative audience.

Here for your reading enjoyment is the fractured fairy tale about Rindecella:

Once upon a time in a coreign funtry, there lived a geautiful birl, and her name was Rindecella. Rindecella lived with her mugly other and her two sigly usters. In that same coreign funtry there also lived a very prandsome hince called Chince Parming. Chince Parming was going to have a bancy fall, and he'd invited all the people for files amound, especially the pich reople.

Now Rindecella's mugly other and her two sigly usters went out and bought some drancy fesses to bear to the wancy fall. Rindecella wasn't allowed to go, because all she had to wear were wome rirty old dags.

As she was kitten there scrying, her gairy fodmother appeared! She touched her with her wagic mand, and she was instantly dressed in a geautiful bown of ghite and wold, with matching slass glippers. A kig boach and hix white sorses appeared to take her to the wancy fall. But the gairy fodmother warned her to be mome by hidnight, or the diss would resappear and the coach would purn into a tumpkin.

When Rindecella arrived at the bancy fall, Chince Parming met her at the door for he had been watching from a widden hindow. Rindecella and the prandsome hince nanced all dight, until nidmight, and they lell in fove. Suddenly, the clock mid strucknight! Rindecella staced down the rairs and ran away. But as she beached the rottom, she slopped her glass dripper.

The dext nay Chince Parming went all over that coreign funtry searching for the geautiful birl who had slopped her dripper, for he was luch in move and fad to hind her. After a song learch, he came to Rindecella's house. He tried the slass glipper on the mugly other, but it fidn't dit. He tried the slass glipper on the two sigly usters  but it fidn't dit. Tinally, he fried the slass glipper on Rindecella, and it fid dit; it was exactly the sight rize. So Chince Parming and Rindecella were married and they hived lappily after everwards.

Now the storal of this mory is this: if you ever go to a bancy fall and want a prandsome hince to lall in fove with you, don't forget to slop your dripper.

You are probably amazed at how wany mords of the Rindecella story you uctually anderstood.

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