Medio Pollito, the Half-Chick — Mediterranean & Southern Europe (Lesser-Known) | Bedtime World Tour
Tonight we travel to Spain, where a proud little chick with one eye, one wing, and one leg decides that an ordinary farmyard is much too small for him. Medio Pollito sets off for Madrid to see the King, passing a stranded stream, a fading fire, and a wind caught in the trees — each asking for one small kindness before the city appears.
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Source & tradition: Spanish tradition. "Medio-Pollito" appears in Fernán Caballero's novel *La Gaviota* (1849); H. T. Francis translated it as…
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