1 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:15,440 Speaker 1: Hello friends, and welcome to sleep Tight Stories. I'd like 2 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:19,919 Speaker 1: to say hello to some friends. Hello to Henry who 3 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:24,360 Speaker 1: is seven and Teddy, who is five from Portland, Oregon. 4 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:31,520 Speaker 1: I'd like to wish a happy birthday to Olive from 5 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:35,800 Speaker 1: Port Townsend, Washington, who will be turning five years old 6 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:41,880 Speaker 1: on January sixth, and a happy birthday to Taylor in Seattle, Washington, 7 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:47,960 Speaker 1: who also has a birthday on January sixth. Happy birthday 8 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:52,479 Speaker 1: to both of you. I hope you have a wonderful day. 9 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:59,520 Speaker 1: Thank you to Henry and Teddy, Olive and Taylor for 10 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 1: all your support. It's so nice meeting all of you. 11 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:13,360 Speaker 1: Today's story is about a toy elephant that has just 12 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 1: arrived at Mugs toy store. Geraldine and her sister Angelina 13 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:26,840 Speaker 1: are unpacking the toys to sort. When they find the elephant, 14 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 1: they think he is the best toy they have ever 15 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:35,760 Speaker 1: had come into their shop. The elephant is happy to 16 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 1: hear the girls say this and cannot wait until the 17 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:42,800 Speaker 1: lights go out or the evening so he can say 18 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:49,400 Speaker 1: hello to the other toys, the elephant and the mouse. 19 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: Oh how large he is, isn't he? And such wonderfully 20 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:04,160 Speaker 1: strong legs. See his trunk too, isn't acute, and he 21 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:09,519 Speaker 1: is well stuffed. This is really one of the best 22 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:13,560 Speaker 1: toys that ever came into our shop, Geraldine. Don't you 23 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:18,679 Speaker 1: think so, Yes, Angelina, I must call father to come 24 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 1: and look at him. He will make a lovely present 25 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:24,920 Speaker 1: for some boy or girl. I mean, this stuffed elephant 26 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 1: will make a lovely present, not our father, said miss 27 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:33,520 Speaker 1: Angelina Mug as she smiled at her sister across the 28 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:37,520 Speaker 1: big packing box of toys they were opening in their 29 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:44,079 Speaker 1: father's store. Oh no, of course, we wouldn't want Father 30 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 1: to be given away as a toy, laughed Geraldine. But 31 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:55,519 Speaker 1: this stuffed elephant, Oh, I just love him. Miss Geraldine 32 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:59,639 Speaker 1: Mugg caught up the rather large toy animal and hugged 33 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:03,799 Speaker 1: it lightly in her arms. Be careful, called her sister. 34 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:10,240 Speaker 1: You might break him. Oh he's just a stuffed elephant, 35 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 1: laughed Geraldine. I mean he hasn't any works inside him 36 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:19,919 Speaker 1: to wind up. He's just full of cotton. But I 37 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 1: am beginning to like him more than I care for 38 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:26,959 Speaker 1: some of the toys that do wind up. I almost 39 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 1: wish I were small again so I could have this 40 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:40,000 Speaker 1: elephant for myself. He is nice, admitted Angelina. Well, I'm 41 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 1: glad they like me, thought the stuffed elephant to himself. 42 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:47,400 Speaker 1: For just now, he was not allowed to speak out 43 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 1: loud or move around as the make believe toys could 44 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:55,560 Speaker 1: do at certain times, but these times were when no 45 00:03:55,800 --> 00:04:02,280 Speaker 1: eyes of boys, girls, men, or women were looking. It 46 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 1: was mainly at night, after the store was closed for 47 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 1: the day that the toys had their fun talking to 48 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:21,320 Speaker 1: one another, moving about, doing tricks and the like of that. Now, 49 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:24,360 Speaker 1: all that the stuffed elephant could do was to stand 50 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:28,360 Speaker 1: on his four sturdy legs, with his tail on one 51 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:32,320 Speaker 1: end and his trunk almost like a second tail at 52 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:39,040 Speaker 1: the other end of his body. He had two white 53 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 1: tusks sticking out on either side of his trunk, and 54 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:47,240 Speaker 1: at first you might have thought these tusks were toothpicks, 55 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 1: but they were not. And elephant's tusks are really teeth 56 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 1: grown extra long so he can dig up the roots 57 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:04,359 Speaker 1: of trees with the plants on which he feeds. But 58 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:07,720 Speaker 1: a stuffed elephant doesn't dig with his tusks. Of course, 59 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:11,600 Speaker 1: he never has to eat, being already stuffed, you know, 60 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:17,200 Speaker 1: and the elephant in this story was well stuffed with cotton. 61 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:23,840 Speaker 1: I am sure this elephant is going to be one 62 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:28,240 Speaker 1: of our very nicest toys, went on Miss Geraldine Mug 63 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:32,039 Speaker 1: as she lifted more playthings from the big box that 64 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:36,479 Speaker 1: had come from the workshop. Yes, I wish we had 65 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:42,799 Speaker 1: more like him, added Miss Angeline. The two girls helped 66 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:47,760 Speaker 1: their father, mister Horatio Mug, in his toy store. It 67 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:52,240 Speaker 1: was a delightful place for children, and many boys and 68 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 1: girls would have been glad to stay all day in 69 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:59,040 Speaker 1: the Mug toy shop, as the big sign out front 70 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:05,920 Speaker 1: named the place. Well, here are some more of those 71 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 1: waving cats, went on Miss Geraldine as she lifted some 72 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:15,680 Speaker 1: white cats from the box. Oh aren't they darling, exclaimed 73 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:18,599 Speaker 1: her sister. Do you remember the first one we had? 74 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:23,279 Speaker 1: Indeed I do. It was bought for a little girl 75 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:27,360 Speaker 1: named Jenny. Only she told me only the other day 76 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:33,719 Speaker 1: that her waving cat had had so many adventures, the 77 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:37,920 Speaker 1: dear child. The children, I believe really think their toys 78 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:44,160 Speaker 1: are alive and can move about. Of course we can't. 79 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:47,279 Speaker 1: Only you don't know it, and you never see us, 80 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:53,000 Speaker 1: whispered the stuffed elephant to himself. And then he winked 81 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:57,080 Speaker 1: one eye at a waving cat, and I that neither 82 00:06:57,120 --> 00:07:04,000 Speaker 1: Angelina nor, Geraldine saw blinket. Gracious, how surprised the two 83 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 1: girls would have been to see a stuffed elephant winking 84 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:13,600 Speaker 1: one eye at a waving cat. But stranger things than 85 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:22,040 Speaker 1: that are going to happen. I promise you be careful, Geraldine, 86 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:27,480 Speaker 1: be careful, suddenly cried Angelina, as her sister arose from 87 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:31,440 Speaker 1: stooping over the box and started toward the shelves with 88 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 1: an armful of toys. What's the matter why you nearly 89 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:41,080 Speaker 1: stepped on the stuffed elephant? Oh, I'm glad that it 90 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:45,040 Speaker 1: didn't really happen. We have only one toy like him, 91 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:47,800 Speaker 1: and it would never do to have him crushed out 92 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:51,320 Speaker 1: of shape before he is sold. I forgot that we 93 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:55,840 Speaker 1: left him standing on the floor. Gracious, But he is 94 00:07:55,920 --> 00:08:00,160 Speaker 1: a big fellow, she exclaimed. I'll lift him up on 95 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:07,880 Speaker 1: the shelf. Angelina said, she picked up the stuffed elephant. Really, 96 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:11,640 Speaker 1: he was one of the largest toys that had ever 97 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:16,000 Speaker 1: come from the workshop, and he was a very finely 98 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:20,640 Speaker 1: made toy. Only the best cotton and cloth had been used. 99 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:28,200 Speaker 1: Does he squeak asked Geraldine as she saw her sister 100 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:34,480 Speaker 1: set him on the broad shelf. Squeak, goodness of course not. 101 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:38,920 Speaker 1: What made you think of that? Well, some of the 102 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:42,040 Speaker 1: toy animals have a squeaker inside of them and make 103 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:45,240 Speaker 1: a noise when you press it. I was thinking perhaps 104 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:50,640 Speaker 1: the elephant had a squeaker. No, if he had anything, 105 00:08:50,679 --> 00:08:53,599 Speaker 1: he would have a sort of trumpet in him, said Angelina. 106 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:58,840 Speaker 1: Real elephants make a trumpeting noise through their trunks, But 107 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:05,040 Speaker 1: of course a stuff can't. Oh ho, you just wait 108 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:08,079 Speaker 1: until it gets dark and this toy shop is closed, 109 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:13,040 Speaker 1: whispered the stuffed elephant to himself. Then I'll show you 110 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:17,080 Speaker 1: whether I can trumpet or not. Though I forgot. I 111 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:20,520 Speaker 1: can't show you nor let you hear it isn't allowed. 112 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:24,880 Speaker 1: But after the store is closed, we'll have some fun. 113 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:33,280 Speaker 1: Toy after toy was taken from the big packing box, 114 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:41,840 Speaker 1: there were sawdust dolls, candy rabbits, plush bears, and a monkey. 115 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:46,679 Speaker 1: As the toys were taken out of the box, they 116 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:51,079 Speaker 1: were placed on the shelves in mister Mugg's store. This 117 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:54,000 Speaker 1: was in a back room for the toys had yet 118 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:57,480 Speaker 1: to be sorted and looked over to make sure each 119 00:09:57,520 --> 00:10:00,760 Speaker 1: one was all right before they were put in the 120 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:07,840 Speaker 1: front part of the store to be sold. Mister Mugg 121 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:12,800 Speaker 1: had a large fine store. And having a large store, 122 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:21,880 Speaker 1: mister Mug had bought larger things, such as the stuffed Elephant. Finally, 123 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:25,200 Speaker 1: all the new toys were taken from the box and 124 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:30,280 Speaker 1: placed around on the shelves. While Angelina and Geraldine had 125 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:33,600 Speaker 1: been doing this, their father was in the front part 126 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:40,480 Speaker 1: of the store waiting on customers. After a bit, when 127 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:43,880 Speaker 1: it grew dark outside and the lights were lit inside 128 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:47,800 Speaker 1: the store, mister Mug locked the front door and came 129 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:54,080 Speaker 1: back into the back room. I think we have worked 130 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:57,600 Speaker 1: enough for today, the toy man told his daughters. We 131 00:10:57,640 --> 00:11:00,880 Speaker 1: will wait until tomorrow before looking over the new things 132 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:04,880 Speaker 1: and marking prices on them. I am tired and want 133 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:10,960 Speaker 1: to go to bed, good thought the stuffed Elephant, that is. 134 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:13,840 Speaker 1: I'm not glad mister Mugg is tired, he went on 135 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:16,960 Speaker 1: in his thoughts. But I am glad he is going 136 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:19,960 Speaker 1: to bed so I can move about and talk to 137 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:23,440 Speaker 1: some of my toy friends. It's been no fun to 138 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:25,760 Speaker 1: be shut up in that box ever since I came 139 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:33,480 Speaker 1: from the workshop. A little while later, the store was 140 00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:40,960 Speaker 1: in darkness except for a small light burning near the back. Hello, everybody, 141 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:45,840 Speaker 1: suddenly called the stuffed elephant, waving his trunk around in 142 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:51,600 Speaker 1: the air. How are you all? Who is that speaking? 143 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:55,800 Speaker 1: Asked a nodding donkey, a toy whose head kept moving 144 00:11:55,920 --> 00:11:59,120 Speaker 1: all the while, as if it was fastened on a pivot. 145 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:04,040 Speaker 1: A new chap, A stuffed elephant, answered a jumping jack 146 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:09,559 Speaker 1: who wore a blue and yellow cap. A stuffed elephant, 147 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:12,959 Speaker 1: let me see him. I never heard of such a creature, 148 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:16,560 Speaker 1: for aid the nodding donkey, and he slid along the 149 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:22,040 Speaker 1: shelf to get a better look. For it was that 150 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:26,400 Speaker 1: magical hour when the make believe toys could pretend to 151 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:32,320 Speaker 1: be alive, when they could move about and talk. Here, 152 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:37,160 Speaker 1: I am right over here, trumpeted the stuffed elephant, And 153 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:41,240 Speaker 1: if Miss Geraldine and Miss Angeline, or even mister mugg 154 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:45,720 Speaker 1: could have heard him, they would have been very much surprised. 155 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:52,400 Speaker 1: Oh you have two tails, cried the nodding donkey. No, 156 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:57,440 Speaker 1: only one, said the stuffed elephant. The other is my trunk. 157 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:01,120 Speaker 1: It really is a long nose, but it is called 158 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:07,160 Speaker 1: a trunk. Is there anything inside, it, asked a calico clown. 159 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:12,280 Speaker 1: Nothing but air. I breathe through my trunk, the stuffed 160 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:17,280 Speaker 1: elephant answered, But I myself am filled with the very 161 00:13:17,559 --> 00:13:22,720 Speaker 1: best cotton, lots and lots of it. Have you cotton 162 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:28,199 Speaker 1: inside you? He asked the donkey. No, I would clear through, 163 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:32,080 Speaker 1: was the reply. But as long as you are a 164 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:35,720 Speaker 1: new toy, let me welcome you among us. We are 165 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:38,640 Speaker 1: glad to see you. What is the latest news from 166 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:46,880 Speaker 1: the workshop? Well, let me see. So many things happen 167 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:49,080 Speaker 1: there that I hardly know where to start to tell 168 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:54,439 Speaker 1: you about them, replied the stuffed animal. In the first place, 169 00:13:57,080 --> 00:14:02,079 Speaker 1: I'm stuffed too, suddenly interrupted a high, squeaky voice. Only 170 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:07,720 Speaker 1: I'm stuffed with sawdust here over here, I'm here. Yes, 171 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:11,480 Speaker 1: miss sawdust doll, we saw you braid the nodding donkey, 172 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:15,920 Speaker 1: But please don't interrupt the stuffed elephant. He is going 173 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:18,839 Speaker 1: to tell us about the workshop, and I want to hear, 174 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:21,680 Speaker 1: as it has been some time since I have come 175 00:14:21,680 --> 00:14:25,840 Speaker 1: from the workshop. Well, I can tell you as well 176 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:30,040 Speaker 1: as that stuffed elephant can went on the squeaky sawdust doll. 177 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:34,840 Speaker 1: I came from the workshop in the same box with him. 178 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:38,280 Speaker 1: You are not the first sawdust doll, though she was 179 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:41,320 Speaker 1: bought by a little girl named Dorothy, I've heard, said, 180 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:47,600 Speaker 1: remarked a rubber dog. Yes, that's right, said the nodding donkey, 181 00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:51,640 Speaker 1: and her brother Richard had a white rocking horse. But 182 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:55,400 Speaker 1: as long as the stuffed elephant kindly offered first to 183 00:14:55,520 --> 00:14:59,000 Speaker 1: tell us the latest news from the workshop, I think 184 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:02,600 Speaker 1: it would be only polite to let him finish. Oh, 185 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:11,120 Speaker 1: of course, yes, squeaked the new sawdust. All well, began 186 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:14,520 Speaker 1: the creature with the trunk and tusks. I think I 187 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:19,200 Speaker 1: will tell you. But just then there was a whirring 188 00:15:19,280 --> 00:15:22,080 Speaker 1: noise at the end of the shelf, and a little 189 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:24,480 Speaker 1: voice cried, Oh, save me. 190 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:28,280 Speaker 2: Somebody, please save me. I'm wound up too tight and 191 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:31,280 Speaker 2: my wheels are running away with me. I'll run to 192 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:33,920 Speaker 2: the edge of the shelf and fall off. Save me, 193 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:35,280 Speaker 2: somebody please. 194 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:40,520 Speaker 1: A rolling mouse that could run across the room on 195 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:46,080 Speaker 1: wheels when wound up, dashed along the toy shelf as 196 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:49,440 Speaker 1: she had said she was in danger of falling off, 197 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:55,560 Speaker 1: straight toward the stuffed elephant. Ran the rolling mouse, squeaking 198 00:15:55,680 --> 00:16:00,680 Speaker 1: in fright. I'll save you, I'll save you, trumpeted the 199 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:05,000 Speaker 1: big toy. Don't be afraid, miss mouse, I'll save you. 200 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:11,480 Speaker 1: He uncoiled his long nose of a trunk, stretched it out, 201 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:22,320 Speaker 1: and reached toward the rolling mouse, and that is the 202 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:27,440 Speaker 1: end of this story. Good night, sleep tight.