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Speaker 1: Hello friends, and welcome to sleep Tight Stories. A short

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Do you have a favorite color? When you

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Speaker 1: think of that color, what do you see? In this episode,

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Speaker 1: we're going to talk about the color yellow. What does

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Speaker 1: yellow make you think about? The fairies and the dandelion.

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Speaker 1: The fairies say that a long time ago, the dandelion

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Speaker 1: did not have a yellow blossom or the fluffy white

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Speaker 1: cap it wears after the yellow has been taken off.

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Speaker 1: They tell the story that one night a long time ago,

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Speaker 1: while they were holding one of their celebrations in a field,

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Speaker 1: sounds of weeping and crying were heard. The fairy queen

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Speaker 1: stopped the dance and listened. It comes from the ground,

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Speaker 1: she said, down among the grasses. Hurry, all of you,

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Speaker 1: find out who is in trouble, and come back and

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Speaker 1: tell me away. Went the fairies into the fields and

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Speaker 1: gardens and lanes, Darting in and out among the blades

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Speaker 1: of grass, they found strange looking weeds with leaves resembling

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Speaker 1: a lion's tooth. They were crying and chanting a sing

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Speaker 1: song tune. Here we grow so bright and green, the

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Speaker 1: color of grass, and can't be seen. Oh bitter woe.

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Speaker 1: But we'll not stop till the fairies give us a

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Speaker 1: yellow top. Back flew the fairies to their queen and

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Speaker 1: told her what they had heard. Oh if only they

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Speaker 1: had asked for some other color, she said, there are

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Speaker 1: so many yellow blossoms now. The buttercup, the golden glow,

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Speaker 1: and the golden rod will all be jealous if another

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Speaker 1: yellow flower enters their bright circle. Go back and ask

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Speaker 1: them if they will be happy if we give them

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Speaker 1: a white top. The fairies danced away to the crying

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Speaker 1: dandelions with the queen's message, the queen will give you

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Speaker 1: a white top. They said, no, no, they cried, yellow

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Speaker 1: is the color we should wear with our green leaves.

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Speaker 1: It is the color of the sun, and we wish

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Speaker 1: to be as much like him as we can. And

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Speaker 1: they all began to cry, Oh, bitter woe. We will

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Speaker 1: not stop till the fairies give us a yellow top.

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Speaker 1: They made such a noise that the fairies put their

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Speaker 1: fingers in their ears. As they flew back to the queen.

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Speaker 1: The grass blades stood up higher and looked about. Please

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Speaker 1: quiet those noisy weeds, they said to the queen, Give

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Speaker 1: them the yellow top for which they are crying, and

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Speaker 1: let us go to sleep. We have been kept awake

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Speaker 1: since sunset, and soon it will be sunrise. What shall

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Speaker 1: we do, said the queen. I do not know where

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Speaker 1: to get the yellow they want. If we could get

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Speaker 1: some sunbeams, said one fairy, we could have just the

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Speaker 1: color they are crying for. Of course, we cannot venture

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Speaker 1: into such a strong light, but the elves might gather

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Speaker 1: them for us. So they went to the elves and

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Speaker 1: asked them to gather the sunbeams for the next day

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Speaker 1: and bring them to the valley the next night. The

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Speaker 1: elves were very willing to help, but the sun shone

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Speaker 1: very little the next day, and they were able to

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Speaker 1: gather only a few few basketfuls of the bright golden color.

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Speaker 1: When the queen saw the quantity, she was in despair.

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Speaker 1: This will never go around, she said, and those that

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Speaker 1: are left without a yellow top will cry louder than ever.

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Speaker 1: Why not divided among them, said one fairy. It will

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Speaker 1: our fluffy white caps. When that is gone, we shall

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Speaker 1: take them off soon, and the dandelions can wear them

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Speaker 1: for the rest of the season. The face of the

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Speaker 1: queen brightened the very thing. She said, If only the

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Speaker 1: noisy little weeds will agree, go to them and say

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Speaker 1: they can wear yellow, of the very shade most desire

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Speaker 1: fluffy white caps for the other half. The fairies hurried

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Speaker 1: to the dandelions and told them what the queen had said.

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Speaker 1: The dandelions stopped crying and said they would be satisfied,

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Speaker 1: and the queen rode through the meadows, fields, gardens and lanes,

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Speaker 1: dropping gold upon each weed as she passed along. In

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Speaker 1: the morning, when the sun beheld his own bright color

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Speaker 1: looking up at him, he was so surprised that he

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Speaker 1: almost stood still. The fairies kept their promise, and when

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Speaker 1: they went among the dandelions and hung a cap on

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Speaker 1: each stem. The dandelions did not cry again, and the

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Speaker 1: grass sleeps on, from sunset to sunrise, undisturbed,