toy story 4|The Tea Kettle Story in English | Stories for Teenagers | English Fairy Tales|
long long agothere was a rich man who needed a teakettle and wanted one that suited his ratherso phisticatedar tistic taste for antiquesone day as he was passing by a tinkers hophe saw a beautiful albeit a rather oldkettle lying in an innocuous corner ofthe little shop[Music]my man how much for that kettlewhy such an old one sir i have better ones in my shopoh no this one is the one for my heart
how much i want anold one it has to cost much lesser thanthe othersthe shopkeeper was only glad to get ridof the old kettlehe let the rich man have it for just tworinsethe rich man took the kettle back homeand gave it to his servant to washthe servant took it to the little tankin the house and started giving thekettle athorough scrub while he was doing sooh go easy on me man[Music]where is that sound coming from who istalkinglo and behold the kettle sprouted fourhairy legs with clawsand a long bushy tail whatevil is this[Music]hi
i am a tanooki you can think of me asa shape-shifting badgeri and my kind live like different things i like to live like a kettle you mindbeing gentle with methe poor servant was petrified out of his wit si must be dreaming i must be dreamingthe tanuki followed the servant back tothe rich man's house where is the kettle i gotoh there it isi must be dreaming i must be dreaming where are you going and i wanted some tea too well
i have an old kettle for youwow this is a neat one thank youjust take itthe peddler rather liked the kettle andgladly took it homeat night he kept the kettle next to hisbed so that he would be able to look atit when he woke upbut as he was sleeping at night thetanooki became his own self and jumpedoff the table to explore its new homeas it scurried on the floor jumped onthe tableand other vessels kept in the hut hecreated quite a ruckus that woke up thepeddlerwhat is all thishi i am a tanooki you can think of meas a shape-shifting badger i and my kindlive like different things i like tolive like a kettleyou mind being gentle with me or willyou two scrub me and keep me on fire[Music]they kept you on fireyes oops that hurtoh it must have been terrible but thatis what they usually do with a kettleyou knowthey do
i didn't know thatplease don't do that to me pleaseno i think i like you better like thisthan like a kettle[Music]friends friends[Music]so the tanooki and the peddler becamereally good friendsthey spent long hours talking jokingwith each otheri wish i had more money i would havetaken you and traveled the worldi have an idea whatwell you have me for a friend we arepartnersset up a stage and announce come onecome allcome see a kettle come to life comei shall perform such tricks that peoplewill throng to our showyou don't believe mei am sitting here talking to a kettlethat can turn itself into a badgerand calls itself a tanooki of course ibelieve youhey partner and so it came to bethe peddler set up a ring called out topeoplecome on come on come see a kettle cometo lifecome some people came and saw thedelightful tricks that the kettle playedthe word soon spread and more and morepeople started thronging to the showsthe peddler had become famous all overthe countryand a few months later the duo performedbefore the kingas well years passed and the oncepoor peddler had now become a rich manhey friend thank youi couldn't have asked for a better lifeas a tanookinow we have made more than enough moneywe won't have to work another day whydon't we travelall over the world together what kno friend you can take me if you wantbuti will not be able to come i don'tunderstandwhat are you trying to saywe tanookies are strange creatureswe can shapeshift only for a few yearsand thenwe turn into our objects foreverno by this time tomorrowi will be gone[Music]i'm going to miss you my friendis there anything i can do for youwhen
i become a kettle forever give meto the city templei would love to be there serving all thehundreds who come there each dayonce i become a kettle the flames of thestoves will no longer torment methat was the last time the tanuki spokeit becamea kettle forever true to his wordthe peddler took the kettle to thetemple and offered it to the head monkthere and there it stands to this daythe hapless kettle who once was amagical tadukiwho made a poor peddler rich the peddleralso gave awayhalf his wealth to serve the poor andthe needy of the cityand dedicated his life to help othersjust as the tanuki had once helped himand such is life everything lasts foronly some timeit is up to us whether we keep lamentingover what we lostor like the tanuki and the peddler makeour liveseven more meaningful by using what wehaveto help and serve the world