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    DAME PRIDGETT AND THE FAIRIES - An English Fairy Tale: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 93
    DAME PRIDGETT AND THE FAIRIES - An English Fairy Tale: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 93
    DAME PRIDGETT AND THE FAIRIES - An English Fairy Tale: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 93
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    DAME PRIDGETT AND THE FAIRIES - An English Fairy Tale: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 93

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    ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 93
    In Issue 93 of the Baba Indaba Children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates the English Fairy Tale of Dame Pridgett who is a fat, comfortable, good-natured old body, whose business in life was to go about nursing sick folk and making them well again.
    One day she was sitting by her window, rocking herself and resting after a hard week of nursing and there she saw a queer-looking little man come riding along the road on a great fiery, prancing black horse. He rode up to her door and knocked without getting off his horse, and when Dame Pridgett opened the door he looked down at her with such queer pale eyes he almost frightened her.
    “Are you Dame Pridgett?” he asked.
    “I am,” answered the dame.
    “And do you go about nursing sick people?”
    “Yes, that is my business.”
    “Then you are the one I want. My wife is ill, and I am seeking someone to nurse her.”
    And that was just the beginning of the story. Download and read this story to find out what happened to Dame Pridgett next.

    Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories".

    Each issue also has a "WHERE IN THE WORLD - LOOK IT UP" section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story, on map. HINT - use Google maps.

    BUY ANY 4 BABA INDABA CHILDREN'S STORIES FOR ONLY $1
    33% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.
    INCLUDES LINKS TO 8 FREE STORIES TO DOWNLOADS
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbela Publishing
    Release dateApr 7, 2017
    ISBN9788826071404
    DAME PRIDGETT AND THE FAIRIES - An English Fairy Tale: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 93

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      DAME PRIDGETT AND THE FAIRIES - An English Fairy Tale - Anon E Mouse

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      Introduction

      Baba Indaba, pronounced Baaba Indaaba, lived in Africa a long-long time ago. Indeed, this story was first told by Baba Indaba to the British settlers over 250 years ago in a place on the South East Coast of Africa called Zululand, which is now in a country now called South Africa.

      In turn the British settlers wrote these stories down and they were brought back to England on sailing ships. From England they were in turn spread to all corners of the old British Empire, and then to the world.

      In olden times the Zulu’s did not have computers, or iPhones, or paper, or even pens and pencils. So, someone was assigned to be the Wenxoxi Indaba (Wensosi Indaaba) – the Storyteller. It was his, or her, job to memorise all the tribe’s

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