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Speaker 1: Welcome sleep night stories a puzzled cicada. Seventeen years is

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Speaker 1: a long long time to be getting ready to fly,

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Speaker 1: Yet that is what the seventeen year locusts or cicadas

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Speaker 1: have to expect. First they lie for a long time

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Speaker 1: and eggs down in the earth. Then when they awaken

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Speaker 1: and crawl out of their shells, they must grow strong

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Speaker 1: enough to dig before they can make their way out

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Speaker 1: to where the beautiful green grass is growing and waving

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Speaker 1: in the wind. The cicada who got so very much

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Speaker 1: puzzled had not been out of his home in the warm,

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Speaker 1: brown earth for very long. He was the only cicada

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Speaker 1: around anywhere, and it was very lonely for him. However,

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Speaker 1: he did not mind that so much when he was

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Speaker 1: eating or singing or resting in the sunshine. And as

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Speaker 1: he was either eating or singing or resting in the

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Speaker 1: sunshine most of the time, he got along fairly well.

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Speaker 1: Because he was young and healthy, he grew fast. He

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Speaker 1: grew so very fast that after a while he began

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Speaker 1: to feel heavy and stiff, and more like sitting still

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Speaker 1: than like crawling around. Besides all this, his skin got tight,

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Speaker 1: and you can imagine how uncomfortable it must be to

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Speaker 1: have one's skin too tight. He was sitting on the

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Speaker 1: branch of a bush one day, thinking about the wonderful

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Speaker 1: great world, when pop, his skin had cracked open right

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Speaker 1: down the middle of his back. The poor cicada was

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Speaker 1: badly frightened at first, but then, oh, it seemed so

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Speaker 1: good and room that he took a deep breath, and

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Speaker 1: pop the crack was longer. Still, the cicada found that

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Speaker 1: he had another whole skin under the outside one which

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Speaker 1: had cracked. So he thought, how much cooler and more

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Speaker 1: comfortable I shall be if I crawl out of this

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Speaker 1: broken covering, And out he crawled. It wasn't very easy

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Speaker 1: work because he didn't have anybody to help him. He

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Speaker 1: had to hook the claws of his outer skin into

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Speaker 1: the bark of the branch, hooked them in so hard

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Speaker 1: that they couldn't pull out, and then he began to

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Speaker 1: wriggle out of the back of his own skin. It

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Speaker 1: was exceedingly hard work, and the hardest of all was

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Speaker 1: the pulling his legs out of their cases. He was

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Speaker 1: so tired when he got free that he could hardly think.

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Speaker 1: And his new skin was so soft and tender that

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Speaker 1: he felt quite strange. He found that he had wings

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Speaker 1: of a pretty green, the same color as his legs.

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Speaker 1: He knew these wings must have been growing under his

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Speaker 1: old skin, and he stretched them slowly out to see

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Speaker 1: how big they were. This was in the morning, and

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Speaker 1: after he had stressed his wings, he went to sleep

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Speaker 1: for a long time. When he awakened, the sun was

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Speaker 1: in the western sky, and he tried to think who

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Speaker 1: he was. He looked at himself, and instead of being green,

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Speaker 1: he was a dull brown and black. Then he saw

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Speaker 1: his old skin clinging to the branch and staring him

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Speaker 1: in the face. It was just the same shape as

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Speaker 1: when he was in it, and he thought for a

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Speaker 1: minute that he was dreaming. He rubbed his head hard

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Speaker 1: with his front legs to make sure he was awake,

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Speaker 1: and then he began to wonder which one he was.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes he thought that the old skin which clung to

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Speaker 1: the bush was the cicada that had laid so long

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Speaker 1: in the ground, And sometimes he thought that the soft, fat,

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Speaker 1: new looking one was the cicada. Or were both of

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Speaker 1: them the cicada. If he were only one of the two,

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Speaker 1: what would he do with the other. While he was

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Speaker 1: wandering about this in a sleepy way. An old cicada

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Speaker 1: from across the river flew down beside him. He thought

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Speaker 1: he would ask her, so he waved his feelers as

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Speaker 1: politely as he knew how, and said, excuse me, madam cicada,

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Speaker 1: for I am very puzzled. It took me seventeen years

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Speaker 1: to grow in to a strong, crawling cicada, and then

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Speaker 1: in one day I separated. The thinking, moving part of

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Speaker 1: me is here, but the outside shell of me is

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Speaker 1: there on that branch. Now which part is the real cicada?

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Speaker 1: Why that is easy enough, said the madam cicada. You

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Speaker 1: are you. Of course. The part that you cast off

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Speaker 1: and left clinging to the branch was very useful once.

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Speaker 1: It kept you warm on cold days and cool on

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Speaker 1: warm days, and you needed it while you are only

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Speaker 1: a crawling creature. But when your wings were ready to

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Speaker 1: carry you off to a higher and happier life than

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Speaker 1: the skin that had been a help was in your way,

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Speaker 1: and you did the right thing to wriggle out of it.

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Speaker 1: It is no longer useful to you leave it where

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Speaker 1: it is and fly off to enjoy your new life.

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Speaker 1: You will never have trouble if you remember that the

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Speaker 1: thinking part is the real you. And then Madam Sekada

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Speaker 1: and her new friend flew away to her home over

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Speaker 1: the river, and he saw many strange sights before he

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Speaker 1: returned to the meadow. One fo