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Name: The riddle of the drum
Author: Verna Aardema

📘 The riddle of the drum by Verna Aardema

Anxious to keep his daughter from marrying, a king announces that no man may marry his daughter unless he guesses the kind of leather used in a drum made by a wizard.

First publish date: 1979

Authors: Verna Aardema

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