1 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:28,240 Speaker 1: Welcome, sleep tight stories the singing Shell. For years and years, 2 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:31,480 Speaker 1: the beautiful shell had been upon the floor in Grandma's 3 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 1: front room. It was a large shell with many points 4 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:40,000 Speaker 1: upon it. These were coarse and rough, but the shell 5 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 1: was most beautiful inside. Marcella had seen the shell time 6 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:49,760 Speaker 1: and time again, and often admired its lovely coloring, which 7 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:53,960 Speaker 1: could be seen when one looked inside the shell. So 8 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:57,720 Speaker 1: one day Grandma gave the beautiful shell to Marcella to 9 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:02,160 Speaker 1: have for her very own up in the nursery. It 10 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:04,720 Speaker 1: will be nice to place before the nursery door, so 11 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:07,480 Speaker 1: the wind will not blow the door too and pinch 12 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:12,920 Speaker 1: any one's fingers. Grandma laughed. So Marcella brought the shell 13 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:15,560 Speaker 1: home and placed it in front of the nursery door. 14 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:19,440 Speaker 1: Here the doll saw it that night, when all the 15 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:22,760 Speaker 1: house was still, and stood about it, wondering what kind 16 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:26,520 Speaker 1: of toy it might be. It seems to be nearly 17 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 1: all mouth, said Henny the Dutch doll. Perhaps it can talk. 18 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:36,080 Speaker 1: It has teeth, the French doll pointed out, it may bite. 19 00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:41,600 Speaker 1: I do not believe it will bite. Raggedy Andy mused, 20 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:44,240 Speaker 1: as he got down on his hands and knees and 21 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:48,040 Speaker 1: looked up into the shell. Marcella would not have it 22 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 1: up here if it would bite, And saying this, Raggedy 23 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:55,880 Speaker 1: Andy put his rag arm into the lovely shell's mouth. 24 00:01:56,840 --> 00:02:00,640 Speaker 1: It doesn't bite. I knew it wouldn't, he cried. Just 25 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:05,800 Speaker 1: feel how smooth it is inside. All the dolls felt 26 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:09,560 Speaker 1: and were surprised to find it polished so highly inside, 27 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:15,600 Speaker 1: while the outside was so coarse and rough. With the 28 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:19,400 Speaker 1: help of Uncle Clem and Henny, Raggedy Andy turned the 29 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:22,480 Speaker 1: shell upon its back so that all the dolls might 30 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:29,000 Speaker 1: look inside it. The coloring consisted of dainty pinks, creamy whites, 31 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:33,440 Speaker 1: and pale blues, all running together, just as the coloring 32 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:38,400 Speaker 1: in an opal runs from one shade into another. Raggedy Andy, 33 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:41,640 Speaker 1: stooping over to look further up inside the pretty shell, 34 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:46,720 Speaker 1: heard something. It's whispering, he said, as he raised up 35 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:51,120 Speaker 1: in surprise. All the dolls took turns putting their ears 36 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 1: to the mouth of the beautiful shell. Yes, truly, it whispered, 37 00:02:56,520 --> 00:03:00,680 Speaker 1: but they could not catch just what it said. Finally, 38 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 1: Raggedy Andy suggested that all the dolls lie down upon 39 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:10,240 Speaker 1: the floor directly before the shell and keep very quiet. 40 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:14,400 Speaker 1: If we don't make a sound, we may be able 41 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:19,360 Speaker 1: to hear what it says, he explained. So the dolls 42 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:23,240 Speaker 1: lay down, placing themselves flat upon the floor, directly in 43 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:26,320 Speaker 1: front of the shell, and where they could see and 44 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:32,959 Speaker 1: admire its beautiful coloring. Now the dolls could be very, 45 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:36,480 Speaker 1: very quiet when they really wished to be, and it 46 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:39,080 Speaker 1: was easy for them to hear the faint whispering of 47 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:43,000 Speaker 1: the shell. This is the story the shells told the 48 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:49,080 Speaker 1: dolls in the nursery that night. A long long time ago, 49 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 1: I lived upon the yellow sand deep down beneath the 50 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 1: blue blue waters of the ocean. Pretty silken seaweeds grew 51 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:03,040 Speaker 1: around my home and reached their waving branches up up 52 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 1: towards the top of the water. Through the pretty sea weeds. 53 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 1: Fishes of pretty colors and shapes darted here and there, 54 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:16,080 Speaker 1: playing at their games. It was still and quiet way 55 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 1: down where I lived. For even if the ocean roared 56 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:23,479 Speaker 1: and pounded itself into an angry mass of tumbling waves 57 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:27,680 Speaker 1: up above, this never disturbed the calm waters down where 58 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:33,560 Speaker 1: I lived. Many times, little fishes or other tiny sea 59 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 1: people came and hid within my pretty house when they 60 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:41,279 Speaker 1: were being pursued by larger sea creatures, and it always 61 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:46,480 Speaker 1: made me very happy to give them this protection. They 62 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:49,719 Speaker 1: would stay inside until I whispered that the larger creature 63 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 1: had gone, and then they would leave me and return 64 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:58,719 Speaker 1: to their play. Pretty little sea horses with slender, curving 65 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 1: bodies also went sailing above me, or would come to 66 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:06,320 Speaker 1: rest upon my back. It was nice to lie and 67 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:09,760 Speaker 1: watch the tiny things curl their little tails about the 68 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:13,919 Speaker 1: seaweed and talk together. Or the seahorses like one another, 69 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:18,680 Speaker 1: are gentle and kind to each other, sharing their food happily, 70 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:24,960 Speaker 1: and smoothing their little ones with their cunning noses. But 71 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:27,440 Speaker 1: one day a diver leaped over the side of a 72 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:31,440 Speaker 1: boat and came swimming head first down down to where 73 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 1: I lay my how the tiny sea creatures scurried to 74 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:39,080 Speaker 1: hide from him. He took me within his hand, and, 75 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:42,599 Speaker 1: giving his feet a thump upon the yellow sand, rose 76 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:48,120 Speaker 1: with me to the surface. He poured the water from me, 77 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 1: and out came all the little creatures who had been 78 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:55,080 Speaker 1: hiding there. Raggedy Andy wiggled upon the floor, for he 79 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:59,040 Speaker 1: was so interested. Did the tiny creatures get back into 80 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:03,800 Speaker 1: the water safely? He asked? The beautiful shell, Oh, yes, 81 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:07,960 Speaker 1: the shell whispered in reply. The man held me over 82 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:10,599 Speaker 1: the side of the boat, so the tiny creatures went 83 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:15,400 Speaker 1: safely back into the water. Oh, I am so glad, 84 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:18,880 Speaker 1: Raggedy Andy said, with a sigh of relief. He must 85 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:24,800 Speaker 1: have been a kindly man. Yes, indeed, the beautiful shell replied. 86 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:27,800 Speaker 1: So I was placed along with a lot of other 87 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:31,119 Speaker 1: shells in the bottom of the boat, and every once 88 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:34,680 Speaker 1: in a while another shell was placed amongst us. We 89 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 1: whispered together and wondered where we were going. We were 90 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:42,000 Speaker 1: finally sold to different people. And I have been at 91 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:47,000 Speaker 1: Grandma's house for a long long time. You lived there 92 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:52,200 Speaker 1: when Grandma was a little girl, didn't you, Raggedy Ann asked, Yes, 93 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:55,680 Speaker 1: replied the shell, I have lived there ever since Grandma 94 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:58,840 Speaker 1: was a little girl. She often used to play with 95 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:03,880 Speaker 1: me and listen to me sing. Raggedy Ann can play 96 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:06,799 Speaker 1: Peter Peter Bumpkin Eater on the piano with one hand, 97 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 1: said uncle Clem. But none of us can sing. Will 98 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:14,560 Speaker 1: you sing for us, he asked the shell. I sing 99 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:18,440 Speaker 1: all the time, the shell replied, for I cannot help singing, 100 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:22,040 Speaker 1: But my singing is a secret, and so is very 101 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:25,720 Speaker 1: soft and low. Put your head close to the opening 102 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:30,480 Speaker 1: in my shell, and listen. The dolls took turns doing 103 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 1: this and heard the shell sing softly and very sweetly. 104 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:39,680 Speaker 1: How strange and far away it sounds, exclaimed the French doll, 105 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:43,440 Speaker 1: like fairies singing in the distance. The shell must be 106 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:46,080 Speaker 1: singing the songs of the mermaids and the water fairies. 107 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:50,760 Speaker 1: It is strange that anything so rough on the outside 108 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 1: could be so pretty within, said raggedy Andy. It must 109 00:07:55,280 --> 00:08:00,520 Speaker 1: be a great pleasure to be able to sing so sweetly. Indeed, 110 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:03,520 Speaker 1: it is, replied the beautiful shell. And I get a 111 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:08,240 Speaker 1: great happiness from singing all the time. And you will 112 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:11,239 Speaker 1: bring lots of pleasure to us by being so happy, 113 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 1: said raggedy Andy. For although you may not enter into 114 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:19,320 Speaker 1: our games, we will always know that you are happily singing, 115 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:24,640 Speaker 1: and that will make us all happy. I will tell 116 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:27,880 Speaker 1: you the secret of my singing, said the shell. When 117 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:31,119 Speaker 1: anyone puts his ear to me and listens, he hears 118 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:35,480 Speaker 1: the reflection of his own heart's music singing. So you see, 119 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:38,760 Speaker 1: while I say that I am singing all the time, 120 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 1: in reality, I sing only when someone full of happiness 121 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:49,320 Speaker 1: hears his own singing as if it were mine. How 122 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:53,080 Speaker 1: unselfish you are to say this, said Raggedy Andy. Now 123 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:55,800 Speaker 1: we are even so much more glad to have you 124 00:08:55,880 --> 00:08:59,280 Speaker 1: here with us, aren't we, he asked, turning to the 125 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:03,760 Speaker 1: rest of the doll. Yes, indeed, came the answer from 126 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:08,360 Speaker 1: all the dolls, even the tiny penny dolls. That is 127 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:12,560 Speaker 1: why the shell is so beautiful inside, said Raggedy ann. 128 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:18,360 Speaker 1: Those who are unselfish may wear rough clothes, but inside 129 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:23,079 Speaker 1: they are always beautiful, just like the shell, and reflect 130 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:27,920 Speaker 1: to others happiness and sunny music within their hearts.