stage. This adaptation has since been produced four times by Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company, with puppets by Chris Griffith winning a 2009 MN Ivey Award, and multiple times by theater companies and Jewish Community Centers across the U.S. Tales and examples The Goose When Hershele was a child, he had a number of brothers and sisters, of whom he was the smallest. Thus, whenever they had a meal, he'd be the last to get anything. As a result, whenever they had goose, he never got to eat a foot, which was his favorite part. One evening, he snuck into the kitchen before dinner and cut a foot off of the goose, slipping it under his shirt to hide. During dinner, his father noticed that Hershele's shirt was grease-stained and that the goose's left foot was missing. - "Hershele," he said. "Did you take the goose's foot?" - "No, father," he said. "Maybe it was a one-footed goose." - "A one-footed goose? There's no such thing!" - "Sure there is. I'll take you to see one after dinner." That evening, Hershele took his father out to a lake near their village. A flock of geese were sleeping on the banks, each tucking one foot into its body so that only the other was visible. - "There's one," said Hershele, pointing. Thinking to outsmart his son, his father clapped, waking the goose and causing it to lower its other leg. - "There. Now, Hershele, will you admit that you stole-" - "Wow, father! You just clapped and the goose grew a foot! Why didn't you do that to the one at the table?" My Father Hershele was traveling along the road when he came to a small inn. He went up to the door and politely asked if he could have a bite to eat and a pile of hay in the stables on which to rest for the night. The innkeeper and his wife refused. - "Oh, really, you're going to say no to me?" snapped Hershel. - "Y-yes," stammered the innkeeper, beginning to get worried. - "You know what happens if you refuse me? I do what my father did when someone said no to him! Do you want me to do what my father did? Do you? Do you?" - "Give him what he wants," hissed the innkeeper's wife into his ear. "He's clearly insane. I don't know what