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    The document tells a European folktale about why the Easter Bunny brings eggs. A king had a magician who gave him a hen that laid normal eggs. The king then wanted gold eggs, so the magician made the hen lay gold eggs. Someone eventually stole the golden egg laying hen. The stolen hen was turned into a rabbit. From then on, children would find colorful eggs hidden around the kingdom on Easter.

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    The document tells a European folktale about why the Easter Bunny brings eggs. A king had a magician who gave him a hen that laid normal eggs. The king then wanted gold eggs, so the magician made the hen lay gold eggs. Someone eventually stole the golden egg laying hen. The stolen hen was turned into a rabbit. From then on, children would find colorful eggs hidden around the kingdom on Easter.

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    The document tells a European folktale about why the Easter Bunny brings eggs. A king had a magician who gave him a hen that laid normal eggs. The king then wanted gold eggs, so the magician made the hen lay gold eggs. Someone eventually stole the golden egg laying hen. The stolen hen was turned into a rabbit. From then on, children would find colorful eggs hidden around the kingdom on Easter.

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    A EUROPEAN FOLKTALE

    Why the Easter


    Bunny Brings
    Eggs

    DIANE BRAUNER
    Why the
    Easter Bunny
    Brings Eggs

    Once upon a time, there


    was a King who had a very
    powerful magician at his
    court. One day, the magi-
    cian gave the King a hen
    that laid beautiful eggs for
    a present.
    The king liked the eggs but G ALLERY 1.1

    he was greedy and he told


    his magician that he would
    like the hen better, if she
    could lay eggs of gold. So,
    the Magician worked an-
    other magic spell and sure
    enough the hen started lay- King

    ing eggs of gold.

    2
    The king was delighted. He be-
    came very rich and the envy of G ALLERY 1.2

    the other kings. He kept his


    special hen in a golden cage
    next to his thrown. He knew
    that someday, someone would
    try to steal his hen, so when-
    ever visitors came, he would
    have his magician come and
    hide the special hen and sub- Substitute hen
    stitute an ordinary hen in the
    cage.

    3
    Sure enough, one day G ALLERY 1.3 Golden cage
    someone ran off with the
    hen in the golden cage.
    The king was glad he had
    had his magician switch
    the hens. He sent word
    for the magician to bring
    back his hen.

    4
    But the next day, when the king G ALLERY 1.4 Rabbit
    looked in his golden cage all he
    found was a white rabbit.
    “What’s this!” said the King.
    “Little rabbit, how did you get
    in here? The King opened the
    cage and had his footman take
    the rabbit back out to the
    woods where he belonged.
    Then he called for his
    magician.

    5
    “Where is my magic
    G ALLERY 1.5 Magician
    hen?”, asked the King. I
    told you to bring her
    back. “I did bring her
    back,” said the
    magician. “I put her in
    the cage”, I just didn’t
    have time to change her
    back into a hen.”

    6
    They never did find the
    G ALLERY 1.6
    little white rabbit, but
    from that day forward,
    children found colorful
    eggs hidden all over the
    kingdom. And some say,
    that every once in a while
    someone found a golden
    one.

    7
    R EVIEW 1.1

    Question 3 of 4
    Why did the king want golden eggs?

    A. The king likes the golden color.

    B. Gold is expensive.

    C. Gold eggs are hard to find.

    D. The magician created magic


    golden eggs.

    Check Answer

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