By Elaine Rassel
On Thursday (Dec. 9) at 6:30 p.m., the Marcus Public Library had Darren Crow as their Christmas presenter. He was wearing a beard this year! However, he still had the Coat of Many Colors! This coat is made of a neighbor’s husband’s neckties that she willing gave to him to use as he wanted to. It really is very colorful.
He had a few stories, some of what were from yesteryear. The last story he told was of a girl that just didn’t seem to want to do anything. Her mother was distressed about this and wondered what was to become of her daughter if she continued to want to do nothing.
One day the mother was in contact with the Queen of their country. The Queen was looking for a bride for her son, the Prince. Now the mother brightened up! (She knew her daughter would be the right person!) The Queen explained that whoever it would be would have to be able to spin flax. Now the girl’s mother knew her daughter knew absolutely nothing about flax let alone spinning it, but she played along that she might be able to complete the Queen’s wish of finding a bride for the Prince.
The girl was taken to the castle and put in a room filled with flax. As she sat there, she said aloud, “What is all this and what am I supposed to do with it?” Suddenly three very tired women appeared on the scene. They told her what flax was and that they spun flax all the time. “Well,” thought the girl, “maybe they can help me.”
She told the women that she would like to be the bride of the Prince but didn’t want to learn about spinning or anything to do with the flax. That’s is when they agreed to help her out. They spun flax all night and the next morning, the Queen arrived to find the room empty of the flax. She called the Prince and told him his bride was there. When he arrived, he saw the girl but also saw the three very tired old looking women. He asked her who they were. She said, “Oh, they are aunts of mine.”
She also told him that they spun flax all the time. That is when he told the girl that she wouldn’t have to worry about looking like that ever, as he wasn’t going to let her spin flax ever! That brought some laughing from the audience. (The girl had gotten away with not telling the truth.) He told us that telling the truth is very important. It is what makes us. Telling a fib will only lead to another and to another as eventually the person telling the lie believes what they are saying. He wished us all a Merry Christmas.