Molly has always been a bad girl. Whenever her mother asked her to work, she lied and tricked and cheated. But when her mother dies and she is kicked out, she is forced to make her own way in the world. So she does what she knows best: lying and cheating. She tells a king that she can spin gold for him, but she has no idea how. And then a strange little man appears, offering help in exchange for her nails...

Today's story is Rumplestiltskin. Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Gold for the full transcript. Level: Pre-Intermediate Genre: Drama New Vocabulary: Spin (clothes), Evil, Beggar, Stride, Straw, Nail (body), Pointy, Hopeless, Cheat Setting: Fairytale Word Count: 3129 Author: Fairy Tales

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