The Elves and the Shoemaker — Western Europe (Well-Known) | Bedtime World Tour
Tonight we travel to Germany, to a narrow street in a cold town, and a shoemaker who sits down one evening with exactly enough leather left in the world to make one last pair of shoes. He cuts them out properly, because doing things properly is the only thing he has left that still works — and in the morning they are finished, and perfect, and he did not make them. Everyone remembers that the shop prospers. Fewer people remember what the shoemaker and his wife stayed up all night to do about it.
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