She says she doesn't want a lot, but she's not happy with what we got. And when he got home he found her in their tarpaper shack complaining about everything still. But the polluted and ruined creek never did recover. This folk tale was first written down by the Brothers Grimm. Twice Told Tales .
Stories are adaptable to all sorts of presentations.
In learning this tale There is a simple repeated structure. While I used some variation, a teller wanting a simpler tale could keep them all the same. The Repitition makes this an easy tale for a beginner to tell. The story is about greed . Greed that turns into idolatry - the deification of self.