Then she took the ring, and ran quite joyously home with it, and thought the little white dove would come and get the ring, but it did not.

　　Then she leant against a tree and determined to wait for the dove, and, as she thus stood, it seemed just as if the tree was soft and pliant,and was letting its branches down.

　　And suddenly the branches twined around her, and were two arms, and when she looked round, the tree was a handsome man, who embraced and kissed her heartily, and said, "Thou hast delivered me from the power of the old woman, who is a wicked witch.

　　She had changed me into a tree, and every day for two hours I was a white dove, and so long as she possessed the ring I could not regain my human form."

　　Then his servants and his horses,

　　who had likewise been changed into trees, were freed from the enchantment also, and stood beside him.

　　And he led them forth to his kingdom, for he was a King's son, and they married, and lived happily.

　　What you have learned from this reading:

　　Thursday, October 24, 2016

　　This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.

　　Much of Pakistan faces more storms in the coming days. Heavy rains have already caused more than two weeks of record flooding. Health officials worry about disease spreading because of a lack of clean drinking water.

　　The United Nations wants four hundred sixty million dollars to provide immediate help to fourteen million people affected by the flooding. The appeal this week came as estimates put the number of dead at about one thousand six hundred.

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