Far, far away, at the end of the earth, there were two very different islands. One island was quite big and the other very small. The people on the islands were also different. While the people who lived on the big island were always working, the people on the small island were living in the daytime. On the big island there was a king who ruled the whole day. But on the small island there was no government. The people solved their problems together. Everything changed when a big sailing ship came to the two islands. It was commanded by a general who persuaded the king of the big island to build a new palace. Since there were soon not enough stones and earth on the big island, the king had them brought here from the small island. Finally a golden stone was washed up on the beach of the big island. According to an old legend, the stone appeared when people had broken the laws of the sea. Soon after, a great storm gathered over the islands...weiterlesen